Monthly Archives: October 2013
Maestro
The loud raucous noise of raindrops and hail crashing down on a tin roof in summer. A cacophony of music fantastically produced by those composers of nature – wind, water, thunder. The maestros! Is music what emotions and feelings sound like? Music is a very personal choice – heavy metal, grunge, techno, classical, world music. […]
Graduation
My first graduation ceremony has to be among the biggest things I have done in the short life that I have enjoyed so far. I woke up fairly early on graduation day, very psyched about the whole experience of celebrating the completion of my first degree, and bidding farewell to my classmates and friends. It will be years before […]
No
Monday. Early morning sunlight is a river of particles floating to the carpet and, with a gentle smile, the mother looks upon her daughter’s ash blond curls burning bright and the red cheeks and the blue eyes and the plumb little fingers slowly tearing a glossy page from a storybook from her own childhood and […]
The Magic Carpet
When I thought about the way We would be, I believed that we could, but There were obstacles. – Well, the perceptions I experience Have changed now, I see the way it could be And it became possible. – KM 1987 At a turning point in my life, I was 47 at the time and […]
The Epic Adventure (Part 4)
Cooper Riach and his family came from Australia to Namibia for his dad’s work. After their return to Australia his mother, Jodie, shared some of the letters he wrote to his classmates about the epic adventure they had. This is the fourth in a series of four (but their will be a bonus about a […]
Coming Home
During my teenage years in South Africa, the country went through a severe drought. The news was filled with stories of farm animals dying in the fields, crops failing and empty dams. There were water restrictions for almost all urban households, and my family, who relied on borehole water, was constantly worried that one day […]
Momma’s favourite nightmare
Clink of the neighbour’s gate got her running to the window, to return sadder, older, her wrinkles deeper Dark as the days of a young widow, He hasn’t called, doesn’t write Let’s just hope he’ll be home tonight . Her lullabies are shallow and weepy The kids in fright fall asleep I alone watch her […]
Distance
When you live far away from your family, there´s a shift in the way you see your loved ones. Sometimes it causes great sorrow, in the realisation of deep wounds or character fails, which you couldn’t admit in that form while being…so close. Maybe you could not see it before, now you move back and […]
Sibling rivalry
I’m the person with five talents. Now, in any household that would have been an accomplishment. But I didn’t grow up in any household. I grew up wedged between two brothers with ten talents each. Sometimes it made me feel less worthy. Most of the time, though, it warmed my heart. If they were the […]
The Epic Adventure (Part 3)
Cooper Riach and his family came from Australia to Namibia for his dad’s work. After their return to Australia his mother, Jodie, shared some of the letters he wrote to his classmates about the epic adventure they had. This is the third in a series of four. Dear Miss P and Class, Hello everyone, […]
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