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              Enuma Okoro

              Life & Arts columnist

              Enuma Okoro is a weekly columnist for FT Weekend's Life & Arts. She writes on the intersection of arts, culture and life. Based in New York, she is a writer, speaker and cultural curator.
              Email Enuma Okoro @EnumaOkoro  on Twitter (link opens in a new browser window)
              • Saturday, 4 January, 2025
                Life & Arts
                Our own work in progress

                Rather than a fresh start, the new year is a time to recognise our lives as an ongoing journey

              • Tuesday, 24 December, 2024
                Life & Arts
                The lessons of the ‘lowly’ shepherds

                The humble characters of the Nativity story have much to teach us about being open to ideas of spirituality

                A woman in a blue robe kneels, hands clasped, by a baby lying on a makeshift bed in front of her. Several shepherds gather round, as the small child reaches out to touch the lamb that one of the men holds
              • Saturday, 14 December, 2024
                Life & Arts
                When church bells stop us in our tracks

                Often the things we dismiss as interruptions to our busy lives are in fact opportunities for reflection

              • Saturday, 30 November, 2024
                Life & Arts
                We’re all in this together

                A good community is the perfect place in which to confirm, refine or transform our individual perspectives

              • Saturday, 16 November, 2024
                Life & Arts
                When love is not just romance but compassion, too

                A generosity of spirit can guide us through the turmoil of the modern world

              • Monday, 4 November, 2024
                FT GlobetrotterMy Top 10
                My top 10: Enuma Okoro’s selection of works by women in Copenhagen’s Hirschsprung Collection

                This intimate museum highlights the beautiful, often-overlooked work of Danish women artists from the 19th and early 20th centuries

                ‘Resignation. Young Woman at the Breakfast Table’ by Bertha Wegmann at Copenhagen’s Hirschsprung Collection
              • Saturday, 2 November, 2024
                Life & Arts
                Where should we place our faith?

                At a time of deep uncertainty, we should anchor our confidence in the young people who represent the next generation

                Painting of a 16th-century couple sitting side by side. The man looks down at gold coins he is weighing on scales. The woman turns over a leaf of an illuminated prayer book. Other valuables are on the table.
              • Saturday, 26 October, 2024
                Life & Arts
                Reading — the everyday luxury that opens hearts and minds

                Books invite us to reflect on a multiplicity of worlds

              • Saturday, 5 October, 2024
                Life & Arts
                When one door closes . . .

                How should we approach the sometimes daunting opportunities life offers us?

                A painting of a room with a white wall and an open door  with views of the sea
              • Saturday, 28 September, 2024
                Life & Arts
                The canvas of life’s seasons

                Autumn offers us an opportunity to contemplate our own mortality

              • Saturday, 7 September, 2024
                Life & Arts
                How can women navigate later life?

                There is power to be gained in living on one’s own terms

              • Saturday, 31 August, 2024
                Life & Arts
                Why is it so hard to ask for help?

                Seeking aid is not a sign of weakness: it provides the building blocks for our faith in humanity

              • Saturday, 10 August, 2024
                Life & Arts
                In August, the rhythms of the natural world remind us to take stock

                Harvest time encourages us to reflect on where we are in our lives

                A painting of peasants using sickles to cut wheat, which other peasants are bundling into sheaves. A few peasants are taking a break under a tree, sitting and lying on the ground, eating, and drinking. In the middle ground more fields of wheat can be seen, with peasants. The landscape transitions into rolling hills and a village with structures including houses and a church. In the distance are more fields, hills, and a body of water
              • Saturday, 6 July, 2024
                Life & Arts
                Making peace with our ghosts

                We are all haunted by people and experiences from our past — but can we learn to face them?

              • Sunday, 23 June, 2024
                Life & Arts
                Visions of sanctuary, in life and art

                In a culture that tells us rest is for the weak, we need space to refresh body and mind

                A small white dog with black ears is curled up next to a terracotta pots and a bundle of wood, its eyes slightly open
              • Saturday, 8 June, 2024
                Life & Arts
                The beauty and burdens we carry

                The physical and emotional weights we bear tell stories about our values, fears and longings

              • Sunday, 26 May, 2024
                Life & Arts
                We should all play a part in raising the next generation

                Our duty to the young is not only to guide them into adulthood, but to listen to their hopes and fears

                A painting of a woman in humble medieval dress standing in a garden, her arm outstretched. Three apparitions float in the air on the left side of the canvas
              • Sunday, 19 May, 2024
                Life & Arts
                The beauty of creative friendships

                We should celebrate those relationships that shape our professional and vocational lives

              • Sunday, 28 April, 2024
                Things to do in Venice
                Venice and the memory of water

                The essential ingredient of life is also a conduit for human connection

                A painting of the Grand Canal in Venice from 1740
              • Sunday, 14 April, 2024
                Life & Arts
                The half-forgotten art of listening

                Music often features in our lives, but we don’t give enough thought to how it can affect us physically and emotionally

              • Friday, 29 March, 2024
                Life & Arts
                Can past betrayals lead to new beginnings?

                The Easter story has more to do with our busy daily lives than you might imagine

                A 17th-century oil painting of a Biblical scene shows a young man in rags on his knees being comforted by an older man in red robes. Other figures stand nearby in the darkness, observing
              • Friday, 22 March, 2024
                Life & Arts
                Windows on the world

                They offer us a view to the outside — but also invite us to reflect on our interior lives

                A woman sits on a window ledge, smoking a cigarett
              • Friday, 8 March, 2024
                Life & Arts
                Feelings in the frame: when paintings pinpoint our emotions

                How visual art — and our own bodies — help us communicate what needs to be heard

                Van Gogh’s 1890 painting shows an old man in blue clothes hunched over on a wooden chair by a blazing fireplace. His elbows rest on his lap while his hands cover his face
              • Friday, 23 February, 2024
                Life & Arts
                We should all seek meaning in the mundane

                Rituals and commonplace daily activities can help to sustain a sense of peace in an otherwise chaotic world

                Painting of a young woman pinning sheets on a washing line on a sunny day. The shadows of leaves pattern the white sheets
              • Friday, 9 February, 2024
                Life & Arts
                We all need play in our lives

                A moment of freedom from our serious selves is both joyful and therapeutic

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