Fern Ridge (Safla Rama) Digest

The forest world I was born into has given me the poetic sensibilities. On my return early in January 2019 to Ulighembi village to film the forest world I was awakened to those sensibilities by the birds that welcomed me along the forest walk. It was not a retrace of my journey out of the forest world, but spiritual connection I needed to make with the divided self I have burned myself with for 55 years of my life. I am divided in diametrically opposed ways and yet remain fragmented in different angles.   What could be a disaster was averted because I maintain one foot in the culture and tradition of my people and the other foot in the western world I have accepted as I journeyed out of the forest world. Much to the deepest part of me I found myself coming alive as we entered the forest. I took in the sound, the smell, the sight, and the light and dark of the forest. It was a treasure of emotional blessing to be born in a forest world. I relished every footstep taken and every

Author in Kobe, Japan 2007. In life as in fiction there are two types of characters. A round character is the first type. A round character is usually the hero, the protagonists, and is the most likeable character with many admirable qualities. The round character in the simplest definition of it is that it is someone who has many qualities that make him or her become reliable and dependable. A flat character is the second type.   A flat character is the minor character. It is someone with a one sidedness, photographic one dimensional character. It is a character that has the antithetical role in a story. The flat character is someone who has no admirable qualities. He is someone with no three dimensional views of the world. “In Aspects of the Novel , [E.M.] Forster used the now famous term “flat” to describe the kind of character who is awarded a single, essential attribute, which is repeated without change as the person appears and reappears in a novel. Often such charac

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,