beauty, love and extravagance rooted in Africa
My greatest love when it’s cold. This time of the year is great in Pietermaritzburg, it is cool and the flowers and trees are beautiful. All looks so great but God knows I hate the unpredictable London-like weather. Despite heating up the room and a cup of soup, still feels like something is missing. I think it’s the memories of cold days when I was younger that make me feel this way. My mom would make the warmest meal she
Read more(Fiction) One evening the devil was sitting and reflecting on all the things he’d done. While reminiscing on his life, he realized that he had really done a lot of damage to a lot of innocent people and some who weren’t so innocent. All this thinking actually made his head hurt and somehow reached at the core of his heart; that’s when he decided that it was time repent and on that warm Saturday night he decided to go to
Read moreThere’s nothing better to soothe an aching, confused and close to broken heart than a cold milkshake on a cold day. Coffee and chocolate I ordered it to be. For very specific reasons really. I may be a health freak but I had to break my healthy routine because a broken heart can lead to “epidemic proportions” as Oom Oubas always says. So the coffee makes one to calm down a bit in my case that is and the chocolate
Read moreA few weeks ago I tasted a mini puff pastry in store at Spar and I liked it. It was a new product and they were promoting it. On display were chess puffs and sausage rolls. Now, I love cheese and thought that the cheese puffs were great but that bite into the sausage roll changed my mind. It was really a great tasting sausage unlike some brands that lie to us by using some paper tasting thing inside their
Read moreHush little angel don’t you cry, Don’t shed a tear for the unknown, Hush little angel don’t make a sound, Don’t let the devil know you are troubled. Hush my baby don’t be sad, I’ll make all things alright, Hush my sweet one, don’t fall apart, All your heart ache is mine. Little angel, I’m your hero, Call on me for a shoulder, My little one won’t fall, I’ll be there to catch you always.
Read moreRemember when you were young you always imagined yourself as various women. You were the doctor who took care of all the sick patients despite their ailments, you cured everything. You were a perfect musician, the whole package, you sang and danced and even had that diva attitude and style to go with it. You were a pharmacist, made all different kinds of healing and life prolonging concoctions, though sometimes it was just sugar and grass, it worked. You took
Read moreOh tweety bird, Why are you so full of fear? Why do you not do what you long for? You were born for this, why do you fear it? Your wings may be small but they will carry you, They will carry you to the place you so desperately long to be, They may look weak but they were designed for this, Do not fear, you were born for this, Spread your wings, start flapping them, Jump off out
Read moreLightning struck, A flash of light before my eyes, A shadow fell behind me, Footsteps running towards me, In a split second things had gone wrong.
Read moreIn the last days, I fell out of the sky, Like a shooting star I came crashing down, In the last days, I burnt out, I had given all of me and all of my strength, On my last day, I burnt to ashes, There was nothing more I could give.
Read moreWith every passing year one realizes that some things in life are meant to come to an end; and with every new year one realizes that something in them or about them either has or needs to change. Some people set resolutions while others attempt a complete 360 degrees turn. I on the other hand think before setting resolutions or trying to turn over completely one needs to do an introspection; to reflect on the past year and plan for
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