Hollis Lashley

Come tell me about the pan

Tell me some of its history                                                                        

Come tell me about the steelband.

Take away my curiousity.       

This instrument is a marvel

It have me still wondering  

How you people who they call third world 

Could show such creativity.             

Is a Rose just a Rose,

Or a reminder that

One universal mind

Creates everything

In its own wonder

And Beauty, and creative

Urge to touch us

Deeply within?

An interviewer asked this question one day this week. We were talking about "Gifts From the Heart" and she was offering me a package for further advertising the book. How do you start your day, she asked, and how are the sales going with the people you know?

Life for me is a wonderful journey of understanding first ones own true identity, and then applying this knowledge to the understanding of others. We often fail to recognize those daily miracles which take place all around us, protecting us from our own self imposed dangers of thought and action. We may ask the following: