Repair (Heal) Your World

Dear all Normally we are told to give and take. It is interesting because our very first breath after we are born is an out breath, not an in breath. Although this is counter-intuitive, Kabbalistically we are told that the reason for this is because we are givers before we are takers. My ex-wfie was a taker. I am a giver. It was a recipe for disaster. When people ask me for marriage advice, I say you must both be takers, like my parents, or both be givers, like my wife, Mirjana, and I. A giver and taker? Difficult. The giver gives until there is nothing left to give, and then the giver gives their soul, and becomes a slave. Perhaps I should have called this article Take and Take. This is how my world seems at the moment. My world is the day to day world of life in South Africa. It seems to me that Colonialism (defined narrowly (locally, micro, in my mind) or broadly (normally, macro, in the world)) involves pushing people down, making them feel insecure, making their sel...