Nelson Daily Stories

                                     REST IN PEACE, DESMOND TUTU "Christmas can be hard for those who have lost loved ones - this year especially I understand why," Queen Elizabeth, 95, said on December 25, 2021. It was her first annual Christmas message since her husband Prince Phillip died. The following day, Queen Elizabeth, in reacting to the death of Archbishop Desmond Tutu said, she remembered "with fondness her meetings" with Archbishop Desmond Tutu "and his great warmth and humour." "The sun has gone down in the middle of the day," a man in South Africa commented on the death of 90 year old Desmond Tutu. "It is a dark day," a South African women said. The Archbishop of Canterbury paid tribute to Desmond Tutu. "He just had this extraordinary, bubbly, overwhelming sense of humour." Desmond Tutu, "the rebellious priest" "never shied away from speaking his mind, he's been a prominent anti-apartheid crit

                                          In Jamaica we say:"Time longer than rope."                            "CLAUDETTE COLVIN, THE ORIGINAL ROSA PARKS" Nine months before Rosa Parks was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama, USA, for refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white person,  a 15 year old girl was also arrested after she refused to give up her seat on a bus. The incident occurred on March 2, 1955, in the same place - Montgomery, Alabama, USA. The 15 year old girl was, like Rosa Parks, an African-American. He name : Claudette Colvin . She refused to give up the seat and move to the back of the bus. Sixty-six years later, according to an article by CNN  December 16, 2021, the court records about her case have been "sealed, destroyed and expunged, following a judge's ruling." Rosa Parks' action received far more attention than Claudette Colvin's during the Civil Rights Movement although it happened some time after. Many more people

                                  HAVE YOU EVER SEEN A FOGBOW? In The Book of  EZEKIAL  Chapter 1 verse 28 in THE HOLY BIBLE  we read:  "As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord. and when I saw it I fell upon my face and I heard a voice of one that spoke." In another book of THE HOLY BIBLE, in THE REVELATION   of St. John The Divine Chapter 4 verse 3   it says: ".....and there was a rainbow around the throne, in sight like unto an emerald in appearance." I have always been interested in and excited by the sight of a rainbow. One of the most renowned poets of all time, the Englishman William Wordsworth, (1770-1850) whose poems "speak his love for nature and its beauty" wrote in a short, simple poem: "My heart leaps up" - he is filled with joy - "when I behold a rainbow in the sky,"  A few da