Thought provoking

Everyone looks at life through a window.

Some windows are fogged by pain.

Some are tinted by upbringing.

Some cracked by loss.

Some wide open.

Some barely let in light.

So when someone says something that doesn’t make sense to you, it probably does make sense to them.

They’re not being difficult.

They’re just seeing from a different window.

The goal isn’t... See more

This sense of fragmented understanding brings to mind the Buddhist Tittha Sutta and its parable of the six blind men and an elephant. Having never encountered such a creature, each man sought to comprehend it by touch. The first, feeling its flank, declared it a wall. The second, grasping a tusk, insisted it was a spear. The third, holding the... See more

Perhaps nothing captured Buhari's indifference to human development more starkly than his appointment of Adamu Adamu as education minister. Adamu, who had desperately wanted to be his chief of staff but lost out in a power struggle, accepted the education portfolio with all the enthusiasm of a vegetarian asked to judge a barbecue competition.

This sense of fragmented understanding brings to mind the Buddhist Tittha Sutta and its parable of the six blind men and an elephant. Having never encountered such a creature, each man sought to comprehend it by touch. The first, feeling its flank, declared it a wall. The second, grasping a tusk, insisted it was a spear. The third, holding the... See more