WHERE DOES DANGER COME FROM?* 2015 has been an incredibly challenging year. Attacks on the streets of Paris and Copenhagen, many more months of Ebola endurance in Sierra Leone, an earthquake in Nepal, tourists targeted on the beaches of Tunisia and, for us, the ultimate tragedy: a terrorist attack on…

I probably sang nursery rhymes as a child. If I did, I can’t remember. I do know that I was in the choir at school when I was 10 or 11 years old and in 4th or 5th grade. I remember this for two reasons. The first reason was that…

In Belgium they brew the best beer in the world It cheers every boy and warms every girl Trappist it’s called and it’s brewed and it’s drunk In an old cloister by an old monk But in the new world there’s something a float It’s growing quite fast and we’re all…

This is the story of Top Delice at Aspria Where Alex and Theo and super Maria Quelled any hunger and quenched every thirst Aspria’s the place where service comes first After long days of profits and losses And listening to unsatisfied bosses It was off to the gym to pedal and sweat And…

When cities are ranked, no city’s above The city of lights, the city of love Paris in Springtime, new life on display Blossoming trees line the Champs Elysees It’s quiet there now, there’s no one around It’s quiet there now, there’s hardly a sound I remember my friends from the city so great I remember the times when we laughed while we ate Digesting our dinner, drinking way too much wine For a night it’s OK, for a night it’s just fine Singing old songs, singing way out of tune Those evenings have ended, they ended too soon

I met an old man down by the sails He shouted out loud, “We’ve gone off the rails” No worries for me or our glorious nation We ain’t got the train but we’ve still got a station When I was a kid, we had trains on the tracks Carrying goods to…

I had bellbottom jeans and fairly long hair My shoes were plateaus under the flare It was normal back then when I was a kid It was just what we wore and just what we did In somebody’s basement I’d get my groove on I danced like Travolta with Ms Newton…

When you are little you learn little prayers. They’re meant for guidance as you’re climbing life’s stairs. Slowly you grow and you earn your own will. Sometimes you forget, you need guidance still. You follow a group, you’re part of a crowd, The sunshine of life becomes hidden by cloud. …

What if all paths that led leaders to rule Showed life isn’t learned just by going to school What if the life that all leaders live Was less about take and more about give Our world is so great in so many ways We need all kinds of folk not just…