I am always searching for great ideas on which to build these blogs. The news, television, movies and my friends lives, nothing is off-limits. It isn’t as easy as I thought, however, and often I start one and have nowhere to go with it, two paragraphs in.

Luckily, I love to read, and often a passage in a book will inspire an idea for a blog. I have started to highlight passages as I am reading, so I don’t forget a quote that makes me think, something that strikes a chord. I came across such a quote last night. It appears in a book titled Come Sunday by Isla Morley.

An interesting book that takes place partly in South Africa. Having spent some months there in the 80′s, I understood much of the authors references to South Africa under Apartheid. It reminded me of the many dialects or tribal languages spoken and how my eleven year old son could understand everything  being said around him and was able to tell which tribe a person was from by their accent. Continue reading →