by Benard Makaa | Feb 4, 2020 | Poems
The Blind Men and the Elephant, A HINDU FABLE. By John Godfrey Saxe I. IT was six men of Indostan To learning much inclined, Who went to see the Elephant (Though all of them were blind), That each by observation Might satisfy his mind. II. The First approached...
by Benard Makaa | Jan 19, 2020 | Learning
Until 2017, I had only one official shirt. A blue shirt that I was gifted in 2008, as a token of appreciation for serving as a class prefect at Kitondo School. I used it until it was too torn to be used anywhere. It was my Sunday best. Not that I couldn’t afford new...
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...
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...
by Benard Makaa | Nov 17, 2019 | Learning
Remarks by Jeff Bezos, as delivered to the Princeton University, Class of 2010 As a kid, I spent my summers with my grandparents on their ranch in Texas. I helped fix windmills, vaccinate cattle, and do other chores. We also watched soap operas every afternoon,...
