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[30 Sep 2009 | One Comment | ]

Hi all
I have decided to make a few entries every week where I give hints and tips about how to banish those depressive slumps and embrace a more abundant way of living. Not that I am a guru or specialist in any way …but I am an avid book reader and love trying to see lessons in all my life experiences. So what I have gathered over the years are excerpts from books, magazines as well as jokes , quotes, recipes and tit bits of my own life practice, including  …

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[22 Sep 2009 | Comments Off | ]

Am so bothered with this whole Caster debate. I had my private life splashed all over the news and it wasn’t fun…but Caster has had her body examined, poked and paraded from the inside out for all the world to see. I understand that the problem is complex. But this is a person here! A person with dreams and love just like all of us. What to do?
 
Had a fab talk in P.E on Sat and stayed in a beautiful guesthouse in Brighton Road (see photo)…that has THE BEST homemade muesli …

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[22 Sep 2009 | No Comment | ]

“Ek probeer so hard om kop bo water te hou. Ek weier om die knie te buig voor die vrees en hartseer wat my gedagtes wil oorneem. Ek wil so graag ’n begin, ’n middel en ’n einde hê – ’n netjies georganiseerde lewe. ’n Storieboek, ’n kalender van die hart, ’n soort padkaart om vir my te wys hoe om met die minimum hoeveelheid pyn aan die ander kant uit te kom. As ek net alles in boksies met logiese etikette kan sit, sal ek vir meer grappe kan …

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[18 Sep 2009 | One Comment | ]

So Asjas and I went to see Abigail Betz’s latest collection ‘A Love Story’  last night at The Convention Centre. Well it is Fashion week and she is a fab South African designer! And wow. I do love her stuff. A beautiful mixture of period and contemporary. Delicate and striking at the same time. Magical. Made me so happy to watch. Like going to a living art exhibition.
 
Had fun last Saturday at the Finesse Nuwe Jy function. Met some crazy great women who wanted me to have strawberry daiquiris with …

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[15 Sep 2009 | No Comment | ]

“Ek het nou net gebad – al huilende tussen die Body Shop borrels terwyl ek na die see kyk. En nou sit ek in my kraakvars Woolies-katoenpajamas. Ai tog, my hart is seer. Trane biggel teen my wange af terwyl die branders minder as drie kilometer van ons spoggerige, boomryke eiendom af breek. Ek stoot die St Leger & Viney strooikussings eenkant toe, en sit agtertoe om DSTV op ons massiewe LG-plasmaskerm te kyk. Miskien is daar iets op die kassie wat my aandag van my sorge kan aflei.
Ek maak …

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[9 Sep 2009 | One Comment | ]

“Ek voel die wind op my vel, en dit laat my verstil met die betowering wat net ’n hier-en-nou-oomblik kan inhou. As sintuiglike wesens moet ons soms die pause-knoppie druk en die eenvoud van die oomblik aangryp – miskien sal ons dan ’n oomblik van vrede ervaar. In The Barefoot Doctor’s Handbook for the Urban Warrior: Survival Guide beweer Stephen Russel al die krag in die heelal is vervat in ’n enkele teenwoordige oomblik wat jou gedagtes in ’n waarneembare werklikheid kan omskep.
As jy bly fokus op ander dinge …

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[9 Sep 2009 | One Comment | ]

“Groot probleem nommer een: Ek het nie groen vingers nie! My ouer suster, aan die ander kant, het ’n natuurlike aanslag om met grond en plante en allerhande aardse dinge om te gaan. Dis asof hulle ’n geheime taal praat wat ons gewone sterflinge nie verstaan nie. Sy het my groentetuintjie vir ’n rukkie bekyk en toe uitdruklik verklaar: “Dáárdie plant moet gaan, maar daai stekelrige een langsaan is ’n natuurlike insekweerder en moet bly.”
Sy’t vir my gesê watter blomme goed langs watter groente sal aard, want party plante voed …

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[9 Sep 2009 | 2 Comments | ]

Yesterday the boys and I prepared the veggie patch for spring planting. Sebastian stood rather disgruntledly and forked the manure into the soil, commenting every now and again about how strong the manure smelt. Ben rushed back to the house waving his rake into the air to get his gardening boots. After a while I heard him exclaiming loudly ‘ Mom! I couldn’t find my boots…so please don’t laugh when you see what I put on my feet!”. He came waddling through the jasmine arch wearing his …..Swimming Flippers! So …