The Children of the Empire deal with desires good and bad
Desire is the feeling of wanting to have or do something. It motivates behaviour. In contrast to general motives or likes, desires are “about” specific objects or people. Desires can be good and healthy leading to positive life changing actions; or they could be unhealthy and unwholesome. I could like to have a couture dress – but I don’t necessarily desire it sufficiently to spend hundreds of dollars on it or make the sacrifice of foregoing something else to get it. On the other hand, I could have a strong desire to be a medical practitioner and spend a lot more time and money studying to get there. But again, there are some desires that I may never fulfil, whatever I do – or sacrifice. I will never be a ballerina! Some desires are strong and make us really...
EMPIRES CHILDREN: CHAPTER 1
Some of you asked for a teaser – so here it is. Chapter 1 – hope you like it! If you do – you will LOVE the rest of the book. May 1957 Watakälé, Sri Lanka Eight-year-old Shiro Rasiah skipped down the dirt path leading from her house to the tea factory. ‘There once was an ugly duckling, with feathers all stubby and brown. And the other birds said in so many words – get out of town.’ Her sweet, high voice spiralled into the majestic hills of central Sri Lanka, robed in the emerald green of tea bushes. The aroma of fresh picked tea leaves blended with the fragrance of fermenting tea wafting up the hill from the tea factory in the valley. This was Shiro’s playground and her father’s livelihood. Shiro loved everything around her. The mountains that...