Ian on Sunday

The view from seventy-six With shocking quickness, another year has gone by in a blur and I am suddenly seventy-six.

Fulsome words, faltering deeds One of the most serious aspects of life today is the widening gap between talk and action.

It is all a dreamMy father died nearly fourteen years ago at the age of 89.

Too many of my good friends are overwhelmed with work which prevents them living more peaceful, varied, interesting and fulfilled lives.

Ian on Sunday When you go well past three score years and ten you are in overtime and a penalty shoot-out looms which you know you cannot win.

Ian on Sunday In Guyana education some time ago deteriorated to the point where parents had little confidence that the formal system would or could produce results.

Faithful to the causeI venture to suggest that there is no West Indian cause so sacred as the success of the West Indies cricket team.

The overmighty centre Any practical person in charge of anything periodically asks the question: ‘How do we get things done most effectively?’

The world is bankrupt. The Great Regulator in the Sky for some good reason has put His people everywhere into receivership and the impact will be more devastating and more universal than the Flood.

Leaders and language: There is a close correlation between the inspiring use of language and getting great deeds done.

Anxiety grows in meLet me make another trawl in the deep sea of reading which lies all around us and see what bright catch comes up.

Personal  performance is the key Guyana is in a period of gloom, who can doubt it.

The love of reading lasts foreverThe year 2008 slipped by with devastating swiftness and already another year is well advanced.

What the earth swallows is soon forgotten The Stabroek News feature ‘History This Week’ is providing readers with a most valuable series of vignettes from Guyana’s past.

We are lost without the right peopleOne man is running a company with the help of three old family retainers, two others who haven’t had a new idea in a couple of generations, and a whole raft of school drop-outs.

‘Open the clenched fist of the past’ It happens all the time in small, closely-knit groups – cabinets, party executives, boards of directors, church congregations or club committees.

Enhance your life It is extremely important that you pay attention to what today’s column says if you wish to live a longer, healthier, more alert and happier life.

Content to be where I amWhen I was a child I had as good Christmases as any child ever had – the love of parents which anchored life, the tree with the star and the gleam of lights, the gifts in white pillow-cases found mysteriously early morning, the fat balloons flying and the decorated crèche, the spread of food and sweets and aromatic cake and even sips of wine allowed, the fragrances of Christmas, the hugs of old grands and aunts and tobaccoey uncles, the carols and immortal songs of Christmas, the sights and sounds of happiness.

National accounting and real life Governments everywhere, quite naturally, make every effort to portray the state of the nation in the best possible light.

Devil-take-the-hindmost People tell me that an article I wrote some time ago continues to “circulate widely on the internet.”