Boredom

A ticking clockEach second striking hardClawing through her skinStill smiling so politeYes 'Mam, no 'MamShe’s genteel day in day outThe smile is goneA deadpan faceTell her eyes to lie againHer brain is deadSenses are numbThe lights are on but no one is homeBoredom is an awful th...

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Finding the Heart

I argued with my clay today. No amount of reasoning, prentend-patience or threatening would budge it. The clay just refused to co-operate eventually leading to the fingers randomly falling off the hand I was trying to sculpt. Like any reasonable person I cussed, got a bit red in the face and tried to start again. After two months away from the studio and away from sculpting it was unquenchable frustration...

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Denial

Denial is a powerful thing. Last night I was at dinner with a someone - lets call him Bob. Bob is an IT something something who is in SA from foreign shores to figure out whether returning to the land of his birth (SA) is a wise or otherwise idea. Bob is anxious about the pseudo-diversity here - though he doesn’t say it in as many words. He is currently living in a global metropolis that is well connected...

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Zuma Must Fall

Dear Not-so-dear President Zuma, You forget Mr President that we are the children of freedom fighters and lovers of democracy. Our blood, fortified by our forefather’s legacies makes us strong, resilient and fiercely protective of this thing called Our Freedom. Mr President, You lay waste to our country. You strip it of its resources. You rape our women and pillage our fields. You, like crude black...

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Birthdays

I think birthdays are pretty darned awesome. And enormous. I think birthdays are pretty darned awesome and enormous. And not in a celebrate-your-pants-off kinda way. I think birthdays are awesome and enormous for your insides. Birthdays are a chance at rebirth, a chance to grasp a poignant moment in time and make it make a difference.What better way to effect a positive, life-affirming, growth-inspiring...

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