Rae of Light

Take 8: Human Rights These films are about how we treat each other. The respect is instinctive in ourselves. I want everyone to know that I respect their decisions to be what they are. Guess Who’s coming to Dinner - in this film a young black man falls in love with a white woman and she going to take him to dinner with her mum and dad. To sir with love - this film is one of my faviourites. It has my favourite actor, Sidney Poiter. In this film, a young Mark Thacke, goes to teach in England. There he must make the pupils love him. Mississippi Burning - in this film, two FBI agent are sent to investigate the mysterious disappearance of 3 civil right workers. They have no help from the people around them. 3 Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri - after a young girl is raped and murder, her mother, Mildred Hayes, decides that she going to protest against the police. Loving - this film is about a two young people who fall in love. In 1958, Richard and Mildred Loving are thrown out...

  Her “wooing doth not end like an old play”   Terri is single, 36 years old, female and has two cats. These facts you see, place her in a particular category. You should by all accounts find her ad in the lonely hearts column of a broadsheet, under  "professional woman seeks man" and it should read: Mixed race female, gsoh, likes cinema, travel, reading, the theatre and good food. Looking for friendship, romance and possible long term commitment. Translated into very simple terms all of the above means: 35 plus, single and desperate for a shag. Terri can't dispute this assessment since at various times of the day she is one of those three things and periodically all three simultaneously. Friends have given up on trying to pair her off with prospective mates. She has respectively been classed as fussy, high maintenance and generally weird. At times Terri has been told she is all three these things concurrently; which makes her feel immensely proud since she is helping...

Take 7: From Here to the Future One of the reason I like Sci Fi is because of my mom. She loved it. I came to love them too. When I came out of the hospital, I remember that I had my Netflix account. I decided that I was going to watch all the Sci Fi I wanted. So I watched Gattaca, Dune, Bladerunner, The Matrix and many more. Dune - the best film I've seen in 2021. I liked the first film with Kyle Mac Lachlan, Sean Young and Sting. I was glad that it was made. But this second one is better. I can't wait for the sequel. Elysium - this film is about a boy who wants better things in the future but he wants a better future for all the people in this world. Oblivion - in this film a man who is guarding the present is thinking about the past. In it he remembers a person who he should know. But his present partner says its best if they forget the past and remember what their future holds. Gattaca - a man wants to make himself the best he can be so he can be an astronaut. But ...

  On a shelf in the back of a little Post Office sorting room in Didsbury sits a red and white Parcel Force bag waiting to be unpacked. Inside the bag is a variety of packages. Tucked into a corner of the bag is a little box; an ordinary box, measuring only 8cm by 7.5cm and 5cm deep. It has no unusual markings, no makers label and is made from recycled cardboard. It once housed paper clips, the ones covered in multi-coloured plastic. But they had been tipped into a little blue ashtray so that this box could rise above its station and become more than just an ordinary box.   Soon, but perhaps not soon enough, the above mentioned box will be found by a CIB officer investigating the murder of a young journalist. Once found it will be marked by the officer in a chain of evidence log. The little box will then gain the status of Exhibit C for case number M/F000925439. A neatly printed evidence label with the box's new identity will be attached to its side and it will no longe...

Take 9: When the World went West I was a child when my father made me watch Pale Rider and The Magnificent Seven. I thought they were noble. I still think that they are the best. Pale rider - a small gold mining town is besieged by a ruthless owner. In comes a stranger who rescues the miners. This is one of my favourite westerns. Once Upon A Time in the West - once in the west people they needed railroads. A man is killed because he has the most important land to build a fine station. A mysterious stranger with an harmonica decides to help the widow build the station. A fistful of Dollars - two rival families are against each other. A stranger rides in town and before the two families know it, he's working for them. Two Mules for Sister Sara - when a gunslinger finds a group of men trying to rape a women, he steps in and stops it. Unforgiven - Clint East plays William Munny. He is inspired by his late wife to abandon his life as a gunslinger. But because of his lac...

Doof doof doof doof doof doof.   Her eyes are shut and she can feel the beat of the bass through the soles of her feet. Snaking up her shins, thighs, buttocks and coming to rest in the pit of her stomach. Her legs are pumping with the action of a step instructor, her arms keeping rhythm, her fingers enclosed around the cool feel of the oft times refilled Evian water bottle clutched casually in one hand – the talisman of the Brixton clubber.   The clubbing scene - here she is in the midst of it all.     A mate called round earlier - "Wanna go clubbing?" “Where?” “Brixton.   Only 10 minutes on the number 37 and an easy trip home when you’re totally out of it.” “You’re on." “I’ll come round for you at 10.” “See you later.”                    Nearly 40 and she was still striving to find a scene that in her heart she knew wasn't her, never would be.   Why? ...

It was one morning of May 2021. I woke up and I couldn’t speak. I didn’t know I had a stroke. I carried on as though I was okay. I even tried to negotiate with my guest when she was leaving. I tried to talk but only mumbles came out of my mouth. She left me with a big hug. I knew something was wrong. I tried to call my cousin, Michelle. With a few grunts, I convinced her to come round to my place. In the end she came round and she was very worried. She stayed with and we had lunch together. After she left, I called my friend in Sheffield, Bev. I tried to say what was wrong with me. I couldn’t speak. She rang my neighbour, Kathy. Kathy was out with Nelson, her fabulous dog. Bev rang her so she came round. When she came to my house I was sitting in the dark. Bev said she should call an ambulance. I took the phone from her and shook my head. Before long my neighbours Lizz and Leo came to see how I was. Kathy told Leo to ring the ambulance because I took her phone. She did not know w...