Blog & Updates

In last week’s blog, 7th July 2018, titled ‘The Sight and Sound of Running Water’, I outlined how in order to create space to reflect, the context in which such thought can occur, needs to be adequately prepared. It does not just happen. I gave a couple of personal...

Photo courtesy of Alan Butterfield In last week’s article titled, ‘Tabula Rasa-A Clean Slate’, June 26th 2018, I focused on how in today’s society we need to consciously, unabashedly, grant ourselves the right and sanction, to carve out time to think about ourselves....

In my Blog article of June 10th2018 on www.daviddivine.co titled ‘Re-Imagining Yourself,’ I outlined three incidents of how, given certain circumstances, we can create a different identity to the one we habitually inhabit. Whilst identities are normally...

In my Blog article of May 18th, 2018 titled, ‘Regaining Faith and Reigniting the Light’, I focused on how we can connect with others when their life experience differs dramatically from our own. I posed the view that connection can occur but it demands acknowledgment...

RACE IS A SOCIALLY CONSTRUCTED IDEA AND THEREFORE CAN BE SOCIALLY DECONSTRUCTED ONE STEP AT A TIME STARTING WITH YOU  In my blog articles, series part 1-5 of Journeys from Black Youth to Black Manhood, I have explored the complexities and diverse ways of moving...

In last week’s article, two Black men outlined their journeys through childhood and youth, to manhood. One based in Baltimore (USA), Ta-Nehisi-Coates, and the other in London and Sheffield (UK), Tim Cruickshank. The stories remind us that each of our journeys, like...