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It’s the last day of the year and New Year’s Eve, for me, will be spent in this lovely lounge at Heathrow and then in a not too tiny metal tube in the sky, traveling from quite far north to the...
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Do you know what you are? You are a manuscript oƒ a divine letter. You are a mirror reflecting a noble face. This universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you...
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What am I doing in South Africa? I keep getting this question, from many people. And sometimes from myself. The truth is, I don’t exactly know. The truth is, that it is somehow, inexplicably, home....
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Therefore…love your solitude and try to sing out with the pain it causes you. For those who are near you are far away… and this shows that the space around you is beginning to grow vast…. be happy...
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Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. – Shel Silverstein I went out on game drive at Phinda the...
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A year ago or so, I painted this picture. A series of them, actually. All low mountains, deep colors, lots of golden light. And now I see this scene painted in front of me, full size, earth and...
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In isiZulu, silethokuhle. In English, we bring the good. This is what we’ve chosen to call the fledgling foundation I’ve founded here in the community of Ngwenya, located in KwaZulu-Natal, the...
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There’s something about being on the other side of the world that gives me pause when I think about commenting on all that’s happened in America recently. While I love my new home here in rural...
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What if this love, this Eros could be the underpinning rather than the undoing, the place we rest and find our way to peace versus another point of pressure of pain, of suffering? what if this love,...
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This girl. This young woman. Nearly twenty seven years later, I can look at her now with such love. She didn’t love herself, not back then. She didn’t know how. All she knew was that she wanted...
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