by Benard Makaa | Jan 1, 2020 | Poems
Look to this day! For it is life, the very life of life, In its brief course Lie all the verities and realities of your existence: The bliss of growth, The glory of action, The splendor of beauty, For yesterday is but a dream And tomorrow only a vision, But today well...
by Benard Makaa | Jan 1, 2020 | Poems
“Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call today his own: He who, secure within, can say, Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. Be fair or foul, or rain or shine the joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not Heaven itself, upon the past...
by Benard Makaa | Dec 26, 2019 | Culture
Orpheus in the Underworld – Overture. Salieri’s March Turned Into Non Piu Andrai. Carmen Suite No. 2: Habanera. Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-Flat Minor, 1st Movement (Excerpt.) Leonard Cohen – Hallelujah (Audio) Leonard Cohen – You Want It Darker...
by Benard Makaa | Dec 12, 2019 | Learning, What I have learned
One of the noblest of occupations in the world is teaching. Few activities can be equalled to the joy that one has when passing knowledge and skills to others. I started teaching immediately after completing my high school studies. Before I joined the university to...
by Benard Makaa | Dec 10, 2019 | Culture, Learning
In my reading of biographies, autobiographies, and history, I have come across many illustrious figures who were in one way or another orphaned at an early age. I am not the first to notice this trend and correlation. The clinical psychologist Meg Jay has noted that...
