Yes, thanks for the memory. Every time we say ‘thank you’ we are harking back to something that was done for us. The feeling lingers on in our minds and we feel obliged to send that feeling back to the giver. That’s how it is, isn’t it? So let us start with the ‘Memory’ thank…

Father’s Day is always on the third Sunday in June, which this year (2020) is the 21st. It was invented in 1909 by Sonora Smart Dodd in the USA,. And she did it because she thought there ought to be a counterpart to Mother’s Day.

World Environment Day is today, June 5th. And we celebrate it in an atmosphere of sadness and fear. We ask what exactly there is to celebrate in a climate of continued destruction. The short answer is that there is lots to celebrate – even in a world of declining species and ruined habitat. For those…