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Don Reed made me laugh and cry. A consummate performer and storyteller, Don shares a heartbreaking story. But he does so with such wit and empathy. I miss poetry evenings in Cape Town. Next Sunday I will post the works of some poets from here.

It’s funny how children’s perspective change over time. Once my daughter thought I was the most mysterious person ever. And now that she is so dialled in she calls Ms Scissorordy Scissors. The hard lessons I had to learn was this: boundaries and discernment. I cut people out of my life real quick and sometimes, […]

Music is a spell. I keep saying this to my friends. Words powered by emotions and harmonic frequencies can create and invoke all kinds of wonderful or not so wonderful things. When I am deeply in love with someone or care for them I never send music – I write it instead. Just safer. So […]

Scientists and rats. Yep…or yebo yes as we’d say in South Africa. Scientists and experiments with rats. A predication about human behavior? Watch and decide for yourself.

My daughter worries that I am more inward focused than outward. ‘Mother, you have to speak to more people…’ she says. I do not have a problem making or maintaining friends. In fact what tends to be problematic is that many people feel a deep bond with me. Deeper than I feel for them in […]

I can’t ask my sister to watch this. Unless I plied her with lots of whiskey. All it requires is your time. As every bit of it is worth watching and hearing. That’s about all I will say.  Here’s the link. It’s beautiful in every imaginable way.

Well, I must be in some kinda trouble as I had a very clear Ben Harper dream. This is becoming ridiculous. My friends and everyone already think I am mad. Now they gonna think that grief has tipped me over the edge into full blown insanity! And it’s funny also as in the dream someone […]