"Working striving for a more peaceful world"www.peacepursuit.wordpress.comwww.craigsquotes.wordpress.com"Peace is not something you wish for. It's something you work for, strive towards, hope for and dedicate to... with all you've got (with all you have)."CRAIG's MIDEAST BOOK (reporter)Here is a short extract from a manuscript Craig is currently "working on", that I'll share...PART ONE: INTRODUCTION "THE NEWSPAPER REPORTER.... THE JOURNALIST, THE AUTHOR""If you don't like the news, go out and make some of your own."- American newsman Wes Nisker in his final broadcast Well, I suppose it was perfectly natural that the writer would become a reporter, a journalist. His father Dennis, had worked for the Cape Argus as sports editor and after his schooling at Wynberg Boy's High was completed (a first-class matric, by the way), Peter joined the Cape Times as a cub reporter, covering sport and court proceedings. Peter loved writing about his sport and was a hard worker, being employed by that same newspaper in his final two years of schooling. The pocket money as a junior certainly helped. Peter had always enjoyed his writing at Wynberg Boys High School, doing well in his compositions and in both official languages - English, as well as Afrikaans. I enjoyed my work at The Cape Times, where I worked for many years. I am not one of those people, who has great ambition; so I was quite happy to remain as a mere reporter. A rather humble occupation! Well then, who wants all those responsibilities of being an editor? All the stress with those daily hassles running a newspaper. Definitely not me! *Oh well, life as a reporter is certainly interesting...I did a lot of travelling around the world to file my reports and spent a lot of time in the Middle East. There were some special projects (no, not those kind!). During the course of my work, I heard so many fascinating stories about the cauldron of the Middle East...and I met so good and decent citizens around the world, but also some very interesting and famous people, leaders too ("names-dropping" again, craig).My friends always said that I should one day leave the paper and write a book about my experiences and my interviews with them... to try the show the extra-ordinary in so many 'ordinary' lives through their stories. I thought about it for a long time, then decided it was a good idea...though I am rather nervous of going ahead with it. It is just too insecure and quite 'scary' writing a book and putting all those words into print, especially for just a lowly journalist, like me. Also I didn't quite know how I'd feel recalling all those memories and the conversations I had with these eminent people in these tumultuous times we are living in throughout the world... at this critical juncture (is there such a word) in our history. Anyway, I have taken a lot of what I wrote for my paper from my personal scrapbook - of which I am so proud. But I hope my editor doesn't get too angry at what I have done! Meeting all those ordinary people. But many were not so ordinary, extra-ordinary, wonderful people, in fact. I'll tell you about some of them...so you can judge for yourself.So now it's time for me to start my 'little' story..." "Working striving for a more peaceful world"www.peacepursuit.wordpress.comwww.craigsquotes.wordpress.com"Together, one mind, one soul, one life, one small step at a time, let's plant seeds of hope, then march together towards a better future...a far brighter tomorrow"