While watching Golden Globes, one winner thanks his mom in his speech:
Mother: “So… if you were to win an Oscar, will you mention and thank me?”
Me: “No comment – ”
Father: (weak laugh) “No, he’ll get up and say how she delayed me in this path -”
Me: “No comment.”

Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett. I picked up a copy of this book from a small, quaint bookshop, packed with a real classics section (finally!). You don’t get many of them in this country. The previous owner seems to be a literature student as the pages are littered with thoughts, notes, and comments. I [...]

The Republic by Plato. I started reading this back in 2007 and it’s taken me until now to get to 200 or so pages. For a while, I plain struggled with the language and density of thought. Then, I put it down for a very long time, diving headlong instead in classic fiction. What encouraged [...]

My trip to Egypt was due to end last night, but that didn’t happen. I had a first and very serious asthma attack that left me unable to travel. I will be traveling tomorrow evening with my sister back to South Africa.
You know when something was supposed to, was planned, naturally had come to an [...]

I need to stop writing about things in the post-experience mode, coming much later after the event and documenting what happened. Enough happens between the event passing and the moment of writing that you end up writing about yourself as you are right now, rather than reflecting on the event past. This is not without [...]

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I haven’t had much strength and interest to write on here for all this time since my last post because the last two months have been very taxing. I think I left somewhere off after finishing a course of counselling.
A really shortened summary of what ensued: we moved to a new house on the golf [...]

“Your consciousness is worth a fortune.”

I haven’t posted anything in the past days. I’ve published a few links and videos, and it’s been a wise decision. I’ve been faltering under the pressure and weight of all I’ve been writing about lately and I’ve needed to relieve some pressure.
I’ve been trying to think of what to write next in response to [...]