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The Angst of a Crone
Even while in the midst of a very publicised trial about the murder of George Floyd by cops, the murders of black men by police in America continues. This week we watched a young man be shot ‘by mistake’ by a policewoman. On April 11, 2021, Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old African-American man, was fatally shot…
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Three Butterflies
I’ve always felt that I receive communications from my grandmother via things with wings. This week I had three unusual interactions with butterflies. On Thursday I was working at my desk and a butterfly flew into the lounge and hovered by my desk then turned and flew back out. When I was telling Norman this…
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Cowboys and Cherokees in the Wild
I often think about what life was like hundreds of years ago before we had luxuries such as many of us now have, running water and inside sanitation facilities, electricity, convenient grocery stores and other shops as well as things such as eyeglasses or medications for our ills. We just finished watching season 4 of…
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Lock, Stock & 2 Smoking Barrels
Tuesday marked the one year anniversary of the first lockdown in SA for Covid. It was supposed to be for 21 days but a year later and many of us are still practicing isolation and COVID protocols where possible. I mentioned in last week’s blog that our drum circle was meeting last Sunday and I…
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Second Chances
This is a 3 day weekend in South Africa as Sunday is Human Rights Day and we have Monday off of work. Human Rights Day in South Africa is historically linked with March 21st, 1960 and the events of Sharpeville. The apartheid regime forced black people to carry a ‘Pass’, a hated identification document, known…
Kitten in the City
Neurodiverse Georgia Peach transplanted to Cape Town, the most beautiful city in the world
