Sprained my brain today

Read phonetically

esta fue una semana dura y resistente

rain

i love it when it rains gently

all the fridge poetry makes sense

all the mind is quiet

monday magic

moon
magic
mild
mystery
moment

meander
masculine
memory

maria

screech

scratch on the vinyl

absence trips me up

scrapes through my brain

tearing and searing through my heart

until i don't even have

the will

to get
up
and

leave





m

Saturday sorrows

There is no such thing as a happy ending...
I don't like endings...



It means something is over



gone


finished

complete


lost

so it is with a heavy heart that I greet my cousin Fran, who generously came down from London, to attend our cousin Charl's wedding celebration (19th March )

and our cousin Adri's 30th (last night)

some photos of the lovely & special events.
Wedding in Gans Baai.








and the fabulous Greek- 30th last night!






cheers sisters, cheers Franny-belle !
M

bursting with love

Just packed away the week's disappointments (not living kindly and slowly)
and wrapped the bow around the wedding gift ( off to Hermanus for family-affair )
and checked into my favourite blog-sites:

Fir inspiration & "filling up" check it out:
A cup of Jo ( by Joanna Godard)
then a must- see:

Design is mine

she regularly has "thought of the day" visually-happy place to be.

Then: another no-brainer ( It is so gorgeous ) Being Brazen.
the picture was found on her blog (today's post)


Then: Polka Dot-coaching.
loved the name and love the concept:


Ahh. Our twenties. These are our golden years, right? This is the time when we should be living carefree, productive lives. Traveling to exotic lands, having torrid love affairs with brooding, handsome men and shopping at the most exclusive boutiques. At least this is what we are to believe if we watch enough MTV.
So why is it that so many of us feel so confused, so unsure about where our lives are heading, so empty and dispassionate? So… stuck?

Let’s Live Life out Loud.

Ok, so I am thirty, but this still sounds good !
This 30-something lady is off to Hermanus now and will post some more pictures of the much-awaited Charl & Annemie wedding celebration @ Gansbaai this afternoon.



Much love
me

have a happy week

Have a happy week filled with gratitude and generosity

love, m

Mama Lumka is person of the week

The wheelbarrow -lady they called her a decade ago when she followed her heart - of- compassion and retrieved the abandoned, neglected and disabled children in Llwandle, Strand.
(The informal settlement is called: Nomzamo ) to look after them in her humble home.

The parents are often caught abusing drugs or being a hazard while they're drunk and upon arrest, the police takes the children to this safe place.


Read this beautiful story (taken from their website)

The "Wheelbarrow Saint" & The Development of Ikhayalethemba Village

In 2001 Mama Lumka began providing residential care for 16 disabled and able-bodied children in her own home in Nomzamo, Somerset West. Some of the children she cared for were disabled, some of them were HIV+ and some of them were AIDS orphans. All of them had been abused, neglected, abandoned and/or left by their parents. All of them had nowhere else to go. Having experienced “home” with Mama Lumka, none of them wanted to go anywhere else.

SABC3 televised a documentary about Nceduluntu Sanctuary Trust's orphanage called Ikhayalethemba Village on Saturday 10 May 2008 under the title of "The Power Within".

In 2002 a group of business people identified Mama Lumka’s efforts as ones that need to be supported and enlarged upon. The Nceduluntu Sanctuary Trust was established. In the Nomzamo and Lwandle communities (situated just outside of Somerset West in the Western Cape) there are no formal facilities for vulnerable children. This led to the current initiative which has seen the Trust acquire a new area of land some 5000m2, on which foster homes could be built, each accommodating six children with 2 caregivers and a house mother. The capital campaign will see the construction of a Sanctuary with 10 houses, an Educare Centre, a job creation/training workshop, and a food garden. This means that Nceduluntu will be providing a vital service for the current and anticipated problems in this community by addressing the needs of the orphaned and vulnerable children, the needs of children within the community for pre-school education as well as parents who need skills training to become employed and provide for their families. It is hoped that the success of this project will lead to the model being implemented in other communities around South Africa.

Well done to Liza Schoeman for seeing an opportunity and joining in my enthusiasm for these beautiful children.
Together we can..
procure R10 000 for a worthy cause.

M

Nina is person of the week

Nina wins this week's award for

- just being herself
(and being good in church during her Christening this morning)
- giving Inge and Phillip so much joy
-being the most beautiful girl of the year!



m

friends make the world go round

ok, before I get into friendship....
check out this beautiful holiday - venue...
UK rocks! (This is not something I would have pictured the British to be able to pull off ) they can have a hard time with effortless minimalism and charm....
see the Beach studios' pictures here.

Quien quiera peces que se moje el culo



ok- sleep tight, m