April 2012
54 posts
It is easy to overlook this thought that life just is. As humans we are inclined to feel that life must have a point. We have plans and aspirations and desires. We want to take constant advantage of all the intoxicating existence we’ve been endowed with. But what’s life to a lichen? Yet its impulse to exist, to be , is every bit as strong as ours—arguably even stronger. If I were told that I had...
“According to the World Economic Forum’s Global Information Technology Report for 2012, which surveys the views of business leaders about their countries, South Africa ranks 133rd out of 142 on how well its education system meets the needs of a competitive economy. Measured on maths and science alone it drops to 138th place. This, despite the fact that SA’s high school enrolment rate is...
"Dad! I'm going to be on the computer for Didi!"
So my uncle called me and asked me to invite him on BlackBerry Messenger. Naturally I griped and groaned because I generally avoid interacting on social media with the esteemed members of la familia. Then he told me that he wanted to send me pictures so with a sigh I added him on BBM. Man oh man, what a luuurvely surprise!
Basically, he was explaining to his daughter how the internet works,...
City Johannesburg – Mongane Serote
This way I salute you:
My hand pulses to my back trousers pocket Or into my inner jacket pocket For my pass, my life, Jo’burg City. My hand like a starved snake rears my pockets For my thin, ever lean wallet, While my stomach growls a friendly smile to hunger, Jo’burg City. My stomach also devours coppers and papers Don’t you know? Jo’burg City, I salute you; When I run out, or roar in a bus to...
How to be alone:
Remember that at any given moment
There are a thousand things
You can love.
“The mind I love must have wild places, a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy grass, an overgrown little wood, the chance of a snake or two, a pool that nobody’s fathomed the depth of, and paths threaded with flowers planted by the mind.” - Katherine Mansfield
The 25 Most Beautiful Public Libraries in the...
Click HERE and be prepared to wipe drool off your chin at the thought of library-inspired travel.
Each year, from April to May, wisteria blooms in copious amounts at Kawachi Fuji Gardens in Kitakyushu, Japan. Don’t these photographs look unreal, almost as if they were paintings?! Honestly, remarkable!
“You are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing.” — e.e. cummings
“Some people bring out the worst in you, others bring out the best, and then there are those remarkably rare, addictive ones who just bring out the most. Of everything. They make you feel so alive that you’d follow them straight into hell, just to keep getting your fix.”
— Karen Marie Moning
La familia
My grandparents were in town this weekend and that usually means that my immediate-ish family (I wish there were words in English to explain the difference between immediate-ish family and extended family. I’m jealous of Afrikaners who have “gesin” and “familie”). It was a weekend of fish (battered, curried, masala’d ) and Paella (my favourite food!!!) and of course hot cross buns. I pretty much...
Watch“Bittersweet Melodies,” the latest video from Feist’s album Metals, features the work of Argentinian photographer Irina Werning, who creates new images by juxtaposing people in the present with images from their past. “I love old photos, but I love even more to recreate them,” says Werning. “When I fall in love with a picture I don’t stop until I have them...
“There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion” - Francis Bacon
Heyo Holy time
WOWEE I am looking forward to hot cross buns and all sorts of fish tomorrow. Nothing pickled though, sis. I hate that stuff. My mom goes all out though, I’m talking like 97 kinds of fish plus prawn/crab curry PLUS my FAVOURITE… Paella! Whoop! And then before you know it, its Sunday and the BOOMSHAKALAKA! Easter egg overdose. In all seriousness though, I’m looking forward to some...
Roadtrips, jazz, activism, magic, kindred spirits...
I just got back from an intrepidly cheeky adventure in Cape Town. I should probably move there. Juuuust kidding. Cape Town is a bit of a double edged sword for me: I have too much fun and then get home with a poepoog i.e. a stye. Flippen opportunistic infections. Anyway, so the reason for my being there was because I, together with one of my colleagues, Busiso, concocted an experimental advocacy...
