Once, every Sunday afternoon was a seminar for every schoolboy who loved football. They sat hunched before the television, absorbed in The Big Match, picking apart the performances of the athletes on the screen.Each boy was taking in the craft of moving a ball swiftly and accurately around a field, absorbing every nuance of the…
Shine on, Little Sun
Years ago, when I first took up the harmonica, there was no way of knowing how to play. No internet, with helpful videos on YouTube. No Amazon to show me books. Having been inspired by Sonny Boy Williamson II, I spent what memory tells me is years trying to make my harmonica sound like his.…
Being Educated by Archie
I never wanted a pet, except a couple of times. When I was at primary school, I forced my parents to buy me a white mouse. The only one in the shop was a mother nursing a baby so we bought both. I called one Mousey Tung and the other one Ho Cheese Min. I…
Notre Dame: rebuild to fight poverty and climate change.
When we argue about spending money on rebuilding Notre Dame, we unfortunately create a binary circumstance that is out of step with how things are. As far as we understand it, we live on a sphere. It has no sides. It is not divided. It is perhaps a microcosm of the Universe in which it…
Stuart Constable 