by Benard Makaa | Jan 19, 2020 | Books
I shall keep updating this list as the year progresses on. For reviews and book summaries, click the book(Amazon) links. For the 2019 list, find it here. For the 2018 list, find it here. For the 2017 list, find it here. For the 2016 list, find it here. For the 2015...
by Benard Makaa | Jan 1, 2020 | What I have learned
Yesternight I didn’t sleep soundly thanks to some din that was emanating from a neighbour’s house on the 1st floor. And I stay on the 3rd floor. Maybe they were celebrating the New Year or so. I don’t know. What I know is that I have always been bothered by any...
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...