Hello my lovely readers
A short post to accompany my #SeasonalSonnets entry again as it's been an intense but lovely day. I taught a seminar on South African and British disability theatre, so I've used that for my topic, as my 'third-culture kid' self was very happy. It's also in honour of the fourth anniversary of Tata Madiba (Nelson Mandela's) passing.
Love and spoons
Jx
5th
December 2017
Tonight my
thoughts are with my home, SA
whose
theatre was the subject of my teaching.
I hope I
left the students with a way
to understand
how cultures are far reaching.
And also how
a theory may not fit
outside
contexts in which it was created;
we humans
are made up of many bits
and
sometimes boxes are a fuel for hatred.
In this I
was inspired by Madiba
who left us,
now, four years ago today.
I wonder
what he, as both man and leader,
about the
world’s state since, would have to say?
Perhaps his
mem’ry can be a reminder
to all of us, to be a little kinder.  |
| Copyright Jessi Parrott Dec 2017 |
For a man who endured so much hatred, Madiba was the kindest man. If only our African leaders are half the man he was.......
ReplyDeleteGreat sonnet by the way xxx