Fern Ridge (Safla Rama) Digest

[I had invited my students to contribute to my blog. The only contribution I received is the article written by Luther KISING, a student in the course Literature and Politics: Literature, Politics and Culture in PNG. STEW] "The Heart of gladness and thanks giving to SANA who diligently put effort to make people a nation."   By    Luther KISING ( Tuesday 2nd March 2021 🇵🇬) With great dignity and respect to share this moment of sorrow and silence to the founding father, leader and the foundation of this sovereign commonwealth nation and the independent state of Papua New Guinea, pioneer Prime Minister Sir (Grand Chief) late Michael Thomas Somare.  It is a national tragedy for us in the moment of sorrow and mourning for our foundating father who passed away on the 26th of February 2021. I am indeed humbled to acknowledge the sacred supremacy of our living God who mandated Grand Chief Sir Michael Thomas Somare to proclaim the emancipation of people who speak more than 800 langu

  A journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step   CONFUCIUS Philosopher           I have climbed many mountains. This book is about how I climbed the many mountains in my life. I have climbed a thousand mountains in my life using the knowledge and tools I learnt in books. I have written a lot on principles of success. I adopted these principles from international motivational and personal development gurus like Jack Canfield, Napoleon Hill, Robert Kiyosaki, Brian Tracy, Anthony Robbins, and others. I decided to collate them as an anthology of what I have written over the years. Hence, this book will contain pieces I have written over many years going back to 2010 or thereabouts. Otherwise, most of the chapters were published every week as newspaper articles. I acknowledge  The National  newspaper for publishing most of these articles in the column known as “ Steven’s Window”  within “The Weekend”.  I have since then taken up the challenge to continue writing, but through an

  Influence of Pidgins, Vernaculars, and Pacific English in Pacific Literature I have always wanted to see the influence of pidgins and local languages, including variant of English used in Pacific Islands writing.  I could not help notice I was working all the time with the languages I know as an Indigenous Pacific Islander.  It was important for me to express myself freely in all languages I know.     Research on Influence of pidgins, creoles, vernaculars, and Pacific English in contemporary writings in Oceania are prevalent.   Included in this essay are links to online resources that might interest you. I guess that was part of the reason to write this essay "Pidgin Poetics in Oceania" , now published in Oxford Research Encyclopedias, Literature. Link https://oxfordre.com An excerpt is given below.

With the New Year 2021 I have several projects that I want to do.  The first one is to  update my blog every week. Second, I want to explore new horizons in online publishing and editing.  Third, I want to see how I can use this platform to promote my writing and books. I will launch soon a work of non fiction, a personal development book, and a book of motivation for those who follow my writing and ideas. Follows of Stevens Window in The National will welcome this book. Keep an eye out for Imagination is Everything . 

Muschu and Kairiru Island from Boutique Hotel, Wewak Hill An excerpt below is a teaser of the forthcoming personal memoir.... We were excited, sad, and also afraid of the journey. There were a lot of people on Wom Beach that day. The crowd was there to see the journey we were to take across the sea to the island known as Kairiru. Most of the year seven boys on the school barge had never been on a boat, let alone have any experience of the sea. The atmosphere was one of anxiety, despair, and trepidation. We just imagined where we were going to on this first boat trip. Our parents probably held their own fears at bay about releasing us off to a strange place. We held on to anything on the boat that can keep us steady and safe.   The moment I stepped onto the school barge I knew the journey to the world beyond familiar shores had begun. I was excited more than worried, as might have been the case with many of the new faces I was on the boat with. I was fortunate that I had th

Panel : Kneeling: Dr. Linus Digim'Rina and Dr. Michelle Rooney, standing from left Dr. Orovu Sepoe, Steven Winduo, Ms. Vanessa Uiari, and Dr. Stephanie Lusby.  Photo Credits:  Almah Tararia Valuing destabilization, resistance, and agency in a continuing and changing Papua New Guinean Anthropology, [Roundtable] Panel 09 at conference AAS2019: Values in Anthropology, Values of Anthropology In my mind the issue on agency is so critical here. I am an agent in both worlds. I am trained in Western theories, histories, and cultures. I have read Ancient Greek Philosophies, European literatures going as far as Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, Medieval literature via the works of Chaucer, the 16 th -18 th Century British literature, Modern writers in the likes of William Butler Yeates, James Joyce, Ezra Pound, and T. S. Eliot to American, Canadian, New Zealand, and Australian literatures. I have studied courses in cultural studies, literary theory, Anthropology, American studies, linguist