Crawling is the Journey
Three years ago, when our journey started, Colin and I set out to build OUR house. What do you have in mind, Colin asked. Now, that coming from Colin is a bit of a loaded question. Like really? How am I supposed to know what can be built on an impossible mountain erf with no […]
I am quite amused at the latest trend in Canada. They have woken up to “Buy Canadian: Keep it local,” amid the Trade War threats from You-Know-Who and his First Buddy, they are now demanding from their retailers to promote local products. In South Africa, buying local was the way things worked. Lately however, there […]
In 1933, Gene Autry and Jimmy Long released the song: The Yellow Rose of Texas. In this song, the Rose represents Strength, Resilience, and a whole lot of Courage. The song tells the tale of Emily Morgan, who was the slave of a Texan commander. Johnny Lee and Lane Brody revived the song in 1984, […]
Do any of you remember Glenda Kemp? She was that Boeremeisie, turned Vixen, who dared to remove not only her bikini top, but also the bikini bottom – ever so inappropriately, and then to add shock to horror, she danced with ‘n Luislang (Python), draped around her neck. Shame, poor Glenda. As a young girl […]
The number three. If you were to ask Aunty Google about this number, she will tell you that three is a natural number that comes after two, and before four. I sometimes wonder if some clever person out there is getting paid for telling us things that we all know. Really. It comes after two? […]
What does Bartholomew Dias, John ll of Portugal and the Khoisan have in common? Keep reading and you will find out. The Cape of Storms. That is what Bartholomew Dias named the Cape in 1488. Later, John ll of Portugal named it the Cape of Good Hope. Long before either of these explorers ever set […]
Monday morning, one of the people that I have come to see as part of my tribe, tried to ask me a question. As with most questions in my life currently, it was about our building. Did you ever regret….- she started, and got no further, as I was already vehemently shaking my head, saying: […]
Because it is an exceptionally long story, even for someone that likes telling stories, I am not going to be telling you all the story that resulted in the number 117. I will give it to you briefly, though. Some years ago, Colin and I attended a course, and as part of it, we had […]
Sometimes, I will ask someone for a topic for my blog. You know, a casual what would you like to read about? More often, I get given an idea with which I can work. Today was such a day. My friend started off by sharing that her children were doing a coastal hiking trial over […]
Dear Aunty Google, Why do we name things? We name to identify, symbolize, refer, describe, simplify, organize, and most importantly, to tame. Through the act of naming, we make ties and emotional bonds with people and things. (Not my words.) Ok, that makes a lot of sense. You see, we are a family that name […]