Fern Ridge (Safla Rama) Digest

WrICE Residency in Philippines 2017 Who would have thought the work I did in the prison space would end up in some of the best libraries in the world? Imagine the voices and words of Buimo prisoners and warders are read and heard all over the world, outside the confines of the prison space! I helped to facilitate the writers’ workshop in Buimo Prison in Lae that led to the publication of A Turning Point: Buimo Prison Writers. It is now kept in the National Library of Australia, University of Hawaii at Manoa, University of Michigan, Universitatsbiblioteck Johann Christian Senckenberg, Zentralbibilotheck—Franfurt/Main, German, HCL Technical Services Library of Harvard College Library (USA) and Harvard University, USA. More than 10 books published since 1991 are now found in libraries all over the world. I wonder how many libraries in PNG hold copies of my books? All information gathered here on the books and where they are from © 2010 OCLC Online Computer Library Center,

In Philippines on a WrICE Residency 2017 One of the best preaching I ever heard is from a pastor at the dinner hosted in honor of Mr. Michael Waipo, the outgoing Commissioner of the Correction Services in PNG. In the delivery, the good pastor talked about two principles of leadership: humility and trustworthiness. He added the third principle: teachable. A leader must be teachable, must be someone willing to listen, and learn from those who are subjects to his or her leadership and in turn he or she can also teach those who teach him or her. The good pastor added that for all leaders they must also be readers. That is something I have not heard from anyone except myself saying over and over to many of my fellow leaders. To lead one must read. To be a good leader one must read the life stories, biographies, memoirs, and books or essays written by great leaders. How else can one be a good leader if reading is not factored into the leadership? The important message I hea