Crawling is the Journey
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 […]
Colin and I came across a display of cool drink bottles in a shop in dusty little Caledon. And yes, it became a Kodak moment. O, I just have to get a photo of this, Colin said. The drinks on display is a “generic” version of the real thing, but it made me think, of […]
In saying the writing is on the wall, the person would usually indicate that there are clear signs that a situation is going to become very difficult or unpleasant, or that it could even no longer exist. Writing on the wall is not good. You do not want to be told the writing is on […]
The Readers Digest. Now if you can remember those magazines, you are either as old as me, or older. Or you are a collector. Somebody once told me that they were a collector. Oh, really, I asked, what. Everything and anything. I collect it, he said. I suppose that is one way of looking at […]
The Police, not our trusted Men in Blue -because, apart from the odd one here and there, I doubt that we have Men in Blue left. That other Police, as in the band, recorded a song called Message in a Bottle, and in it they repeat the phrase: I’m sending out an S O S […]
I have a good idea, Colin said to me Monday morning. You can call your next Cape Crawl: A River Runs Through It. Have you ever experienced that moment, when you do not need a mirror image or a photo to know what your expression looks like. In fact, you can feeeel it, and you […]
Charles Dickens starts off A Tale of Two Cities, by saying it was the best of times, it was the worst of times. The Tremeloes, after very many La La La La’s tell us that even the bad times are good. And I agree, we are currently experiencing the best of times, and the worst […]
The Titanic. We all know the story. We have all seen the movie. We all know the theme song. We can all sing our own versions of it. Someone sent me a meme a while back, saying that often, when she reads the true lyrics of a song, she does prefer her own version of […]
Recently, I was driving between Worcester and Grabow. My companion in the car marveled at the nartjie orchards we were driving past. The trees were heavily hung with fruit, which he pointed out. I too looked at the trees, but I said to him, I do not see nartjies, I see marmalade. We continued on, […]
I will never forget the moment I first heard the song “Wonderful Tonight” being sung. It was not a song I knew (even though Eric Clapton first recorded it in 1977), but what stopped me to listen to it was this. First of all, it was just such an elegant melody, and secondly, it was […]