Embers and Ice Cream

Every time I experience an instant manifestation, it always surprises me so much, even though it happens quite frequently. Last Saturday was the Women's Group I had mentioned attending. The meeting is held in Berg en Dal estate and the host's home is right up at the top, backing onto the mountain. I was sitting …

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Luminous ‘Lisi

While I was in George, I loved having my morning coffee outside watching the birds while Amelia pottered about. There were so many lovely birds we do not see in Cape Town. There was a rainbird aka a Burchell's Coucal, which makes the funniest sounds as a warning of rain. There was the black African …

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Mermaid Ways

I keep seeing people posting threads about 'what weird thing did you do as a kid you thought was 'normal' but was absolutely due to neurodiversity'? So many things I have not thought about in years are bubbling up to the surface. I am trying to be like water and imagine my mermaid self , …

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Dope Dopamine

Typical of the Mother City, the weather has been erratic all week. We had several days of really severe winds. Then we had several days of intense heat, it was 31℃ on Tuesday. That evening I sat outside at the back and took advantage of the weather finally cooling off a bit. The cats and …

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The Value of Quality

I've said before that people seem to forget that the end goal is simply to be happy and live a 'comfortable' life. It is up to each individual what they deem to be 'comfortable'. I love house renovation shows and am currently watching Married to Real Estate and recently the beautiful Egypt said 'You can't …

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The Resilience of Women

Last week at Soul Circle we were talking about how most of us (and many women in general) say they are 'Resilient' as if it is something to be proud of. Meanwhile, being able to always be strong is not always a positive, it can also be a trauma response as Nikki our facilitator mentioned. …

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The Best Medicine

For such a hermit I have been really busy, but not so busy that it was too exhausting, the nice thing about a 4 day weekend is you can fit in recovery time. The remainder of Easter weekend was lovely. At lunch time last Saturday I went to a friend's for her birthday celebration and …

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Bucket List

Friends know that I am frog-o-phobic and we have a horrendous situation going on at the moment. We have a toad somewhere in the house. How do we know? Toad poop. If you know toad poop, then you are never mistaken about the origin of that poop. It has no sphincter marks like normal poop …

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Orphans of Consciousness

Norm and I were treated to the most amazing dinner cooked by our son in law Wes. Caitlin and Wes had been wanting to thank us for the dinner at The Pier that they ended up going to solo as I was ill and Norm was away. I had already paid the deposit so that …

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The Golden Thread

Today we had our Women's Soul Circle. Usually I just get up, get dressed and go but as Norm is still away I had to wake early enough to give Panda his meds so that he had an hour for them to settle before he ate, feed them all (standing over them the entire time …

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