On occasions when we need to reflect upon the subject of our native land, or our ‘Lam Bawang Tauh’ in the Kelabit dialect, we tend to recall where we were born, and where we were raised, and where our forebears lie in their momentary hiatus along their onward progression to
By MAYA GREEN Last night I saw the moon — I thought I saw her smileThis morning I read a piece, it said the moon is drifting awayHey, something is going on here, so I told myself! The moon is doing her dance, her celestial twist around the EarthAnd the
By MAYA GREEN It’s your true nature to seek the TRUTH:Your whole life is a journey in its pursuit;Be as the moon, reflecting back the lightBack to the sun, to the original sourceAlways hearing the call — to come home Meditate on the BEAUTY of a wild flower,Or the tender
By MAYA GREEN There are the builders and creatorsAnd then there are the destroyersEveryone who has ever walked this EarthIs either one of the aforesaid, on this Earth O no, there are no in-betweensAs no fence sitters in this game are allowedYou are either in or out, no conjoined twinsOf
By MAYA GREEN For desperate times, desperate measuresWhether being reactive, or anticipatory, it’s just contextualWhether to be calm and measured — or more of an ad hoc,All in, it will be a rocky ride, destabilising Take the scenario, let’s just sayWhen the take is just one action, of point accuracyThe
By MAYA GREEN In the footsteps, of my father’s directionFor a higher ground’s destinationTo climb up the ‘floating’ high mountainSet up firmly in nature’s high echelon Where the civet cats nap at high noonTo rest tired limbs, and none too soonUp a tall tree in a sea of verdant greenFull
It was Shakespeare who famously posed the question: ‘To be or Not to Be’ through one of many alter egos, in the play called ‘Hamlet’. If I am not mistaken. The original poser was induced, I believe, by a situation of predicament. Recently, I was put in a predicament of
The Pioneers and Trail Blazers Our parents’ generation saw the transition from the “old ways” to the modern era. Before their time, there were no schools. James Ritchie, my dad is the one right in the middle of the back row. Three of my uncles are on the left, three
On the last day of December 2016, I was in Portland, Oregon, USA. It was a cold winter month that year with the snowfall much heavier than normal, so I heard from the locals. The gloomy and cold weather did not help to uplift the spirit but I was there
The Unfolding Phenomenon EVERY time I return to my traditional homeland in the Kelabit Highlands, I seldom stay longer than necessary in the small town of Bario. Maybe the term ‘town’ is a misnomer since, more accurately, the term ‘Bario’ is interchangeably used to refer to both the largest concentration
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