Geseende Kersfees!

Ek het hierdie gedig so twee jaar terug geskryf en gee dit graag as kerspersent aan mense na aan my...



Kersgedig



Ons het almal al klaar te veel van als

so hierdie Kersfees

Gee ek jou niks



Niks om te dra nie

Niks wat kan pla nie

Niks waaroor jy my hoef uit te vra nie



Ek gee jou niks



Niks te vertoon nie

Niks te verskoon nie

Niks waarvoor jy my hoef te beloon nie



Ek gee jou



Niks wat kan taan nie

Niks wat bestaan nie

Niks wat jy van my hoef te verstaan nie



Ek gee



Niks te behou nie

Niks toe te vertrou nie

Niks waaraan jy my hoef te onthou nie.



Laat daar niks wees

Close to the real me

Hierdie foto wat Rathla jr. van my geneem het by die drama-aand beskryf my dalk die beste.

ietwat uit fokus

bietjie ver terug in die raampie

effens in die donker

of dalk heeltemal in die duister.

P.S. Ek glimlag darem.

Paper doll

I loved doing her (last year), especially since I really screwed her up at first. She is three pieces of torn paper placed over each other. I had her framed really elaborately in a huge tripple frame and she sold in a flash but I still get to see her sometimes when I go visit the Gillies-Smiths. Would like to experiment more with the texture of paper. And I will as soon as I can get the texture of my daily life a bit smoother...

Abseiling!

Nina, a friend of mine, is an abseiling instructor and invited us to come abseiling in November. Well... I am afraid of heights but I knew that If I wanted Rathla and Franci to go down I would have to just face it and do it. Ian went first, and then Rathla, so I had alot of time to see just how high it was. (The cliff we abseiled down was only about 18 m high, but believe me - it could have been 180m...). Rathla got quite scared which focused my attention on encouraging him to let go of the rope.

When it was my turn I realised that I had to decide whether I was going to trust the ropes because if I don't then what's the point. So I actually really enjoyed it and Nina and I are thinking of doing a programme to empower abused women through my facilitating an inspirational course and then we take them abseiling. Sounds like fun, so we will work on it in the new year when my exams are over.

Poetry and Prose

Our two poetry and prose evenings went well. We presented them at Melon Rouge Restaurant and the staff there were amazing and made us feel like Broadway actresses. We sold out for both evenings and I think the audience loved it because it was not at all this poetry reading - instead we 'played' it all out, moved arround a lot and had lovely music (by Gang of Instrumentals) which gave it a really lively atmosphere

The three of us had loads of fun. I did a Kenyan story - thats why I have all the circles around my eyes. Trudi (in the middle did a sort of an eastern poem and a story by Paolo Koehlo and Sam did this 'Skeleton woman' story which had everybody spellbound. I also did the poem ' Walking away' and on the second night I did get a bit tearfull while doing the poem but everyone said it was amazing (I am sure they just wanted to comfort me) and Sam and Trudi teased me and said that I could become a professional mourner at funerals because I also got a bit choked when I did a speech and a poem in front of a whole lot of women at a fundraiser two weeks ago! Perhaps I should not do serious poems and stick to poems like Humpty Dumpty, but knowing me I will probably start crying when that poor egg falls off the wall...

Some book reviews

Hallo Everyone! Hope you are all well. I am studying for my exams in January, and when I take a break I read - ja, I know its boring. But anyway, here are some reviews of a few really amazing books I have read lately. Enjoy, and if you don't hear from me - it is because I am immersed in Research Methodology... ENJOY! Oh, I also am having a technical problem with loading pics from my camera. All the pics come out with what looks like a 'cartoon' crack over them. And NO! Not only pics of me (can't be that bad, can it!), but of everyone. And we went abseiling and now it will remain a rumour untill I can show you all - I did it! Love S.

P.S Let me know what you think of the books if you read them!

The Shack - William P. Young

This book was given to me by my long lost friend Craig Herd and it is mind blowing. If you have ever wondered how you could be a Christian while expanding your consciousness - this is it. Go read, go figure...


Raka - die Roman - Koos Kombuis

Ongetwyfeld een van die beste boeke wat ek in die afgelope 10 jaar gelees het. Klaar. Net jammer dat die ooms en tannies wat dit eintlik moet lees, die pot dalk sover gaan mis sit dat hulle in die skaapkraal pis. Of die boek dalk nooit lees nie. Ek is bly ek het.


Aidsafari - Adam Levin

This guy has been there - this book is beautifully written, honest, human. I don't know, I cannot quite say what it has done for me, but it has certainly shown me that my puny little fears are to be faced. If one beautiful gay man in Africa can do it then surely so can I - and I am not even faced with the reality of having Aids. But as Adam Levin says: 'The world has AIDS. And if you give a shit about the world, you have it too.'