Musings...

 Soft Pitter Patters... In the dark of this night Light and colour is all I see Though these eyes remain shut In my mind glorious gardens it shall be Soft pitter patters upon my tin roof Through which a rainbow is revealed to me But even though it is cold outside The warmth felt in my soul sets me free Pitter patter, what a glorious sound Oh, beautiful rain what a magical scent Dark turned to light seemed so profound But so clear is my mind that I hear every sound

Love I love South Africa! I love diversity! I love languages and wish I were fluent in more. I love Afrikaans, but most of all I love my mother tongue and seem to be missing it because I don't speak it as often as I used to. I miss communicating in my language and long to speak in English, all the time. It is so easy for me and I don't have to think so much or search for the right words with the right meanings all the time. Getting my message across in English is a much quicker process. While growing up most of my communication was done in English. All my friends from school were English, most of my neighbourhood friends were English and on odd occasion I spoke Afrikaans. English was and still is my easiest form of spoken communication. I remember being able to write well in Afrikaans at school but my English accent, when speaking Afrikaans, was quite appalling. I was a Soutie girl in the truest form. I was a "Soutie" to the core who had vowed never to ...

World View - Captured December 2013 I believe our  world-view essentially makes up a large part of who we are and who we are is not always easily explainable.  What exactly is a world-view? I found a very near, possible answer to this when searching for this on Google and I quote: “A world-view consists of basic assumptions and images that provide a more or less coherent, though not necessarily accurate, way of thinking about the world”.  So what is my world-view? I have chosen not to go into scientific or technical detail but to simply describe the way I see and feel about the world around me. Living according to the norm which has been set out for us by our society is not always an easy task. The first thing that comes to mind is materialism and greed. Why is this? There is constant competition and comparisons between people regarding the size or location of one’s house, or the make of one’s car, it is the “keeping up with the Jones’s syndrome”, and this...