by mkellent | Nov 14, 2018 | Inspiration, Our world, Purpose, Reflections, social reflections
In the face of the relentless fires and other recent tragedies, I have been thinking about Love. Not the romantic kind, although that is wonderful, but the wider, deeper kind that can all too easily go unnoticed. **“The meaning of life is to give meaning to life, and...
by mkellent | Sep 27, 2018 | Our world, Purpose, social reflections
After the complaint that my generation had caused all the problems that this generation now has to cleanup, I own responsibility. We may not have caused all the problems but we have perpetuated them and allowed others to expand the causes. Once again I asked myself...
by mkellent | Sep 24, 2018 | I never thought I could, Individual Aging
It’s the morning after BackStory and my first experience of telling my own story to an audience in the theatre. Fortunately there were some friends and my daughter in the audience, which was reassuring and the lights were so strong you could only see the first...
by mkellent | Sep 20, 2018 | Uncategorized
I”ve spent years encouraging people to write their stories (A current funded residency is called Our Stories are Yours) Now the tables are being turned on me and I have been challenged to do new things and push out of my comfort zone. Consequently I will soon be...
by mkellent | Aug 2, 2018 | Reflections
We are all deeply affected by the inhuman separation of children from parents at the US border. In solidarity with those parents and to give them voice where they may not have been able to speak, I want to share my own experience. The circumstances were different for...
