Dreams
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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If I flinched at every grief, I would be an intelligent idiot. If I were not the sun, I’d ebb and flow like sadness. If you were not my guide, I’d wander lost in Sanai. If there were no light,...
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The end of the year. The full moon. The dark beginning to turn to the light. A time, on all these fronts and more, to release. Release what binds us, what no longer serves us, what holds us back....
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Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves. ~ Henry David Thoreau I have spent so much of my life trying to find myself – and I’ve been in good company on that front. There’s an...
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Help is strangely, something we want to do without, as if the very idea disturbs and blurs the boundaries of our indidviual endeavors, as if we cannot face how much we need in order to go on. We are...
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The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror, and each will smile at the other’s welcome and say, sit here. Eat. You will love again...
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I’ve just returned from a trip – one I knew would be a big one. How big, however, I had no idea. In just under a month, South Africa won my heart – the land, the sky, the creatures and the...
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Coming home is the arc of the bridge, the struts making shadows on the water’s edge. The waves shyly showing their tips now and then, gulls screeing for all that lives below. Coming home is the piney...
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I’m home. After driving more than 1200 miles and sleeping in six beds in nine days, across eight states, I am home. This trip was different than most – I drove rather than flying, I went back to a...
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You asked and I finally answered. Thanks for your patience. While most of the work I do comes to me through recommendations and referrals, it’s time to be clear about the ways we can work...
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I have to push myself sometimes. I have to remember that I am living in 2015, in a fairly privileged and extremely sheltered way in some regards. I have to remember that I am in a fully grown body,...
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