Person of the week: Marlene Theron

She is a mom, a wife, a friend, an aunt, a Bible-study rgoup leader and a career-woman. She loves her children fiercely and is focussed on getting and being the best for them. well done- on a life well balanced and a heart that listens to itself. This poem I found on Julie Daley's blog.
Read more here.

For Longing by John O’Donohue

Blessed be the longing that brought you here

And quickens your soul with wonder.

May you have the courage to listen to the voice of desire

That disturbs you when you have settled for something safe.

May you have the wisdom to enter generously into your own unease

To discover the new direction your longing wants you to take.

May the forms of your belonging–in love, creativity, and friendship–

Be equal to the grandeur and the call of your soul.

May the one you long for long for you.

May your dreams gradually reveal the destination of your desire.

May a secret Providence guide your thought and nurture your feeling.

May your mind inhabit your life with the sureness with which
your body inhabits the world.

May your heart never be haunted by ghost-structures of old damage.

May you come to accept your longing as divine urgency.

May you know the urgency with which God longs for you.

♥

image credit: Photographer: Beatrice Lechtanski

Joshua's 1st birthday

♥

Happy first birthday young man!

Tara Sophia Mohr ... the very embodyment of angelic

just wrap yourself around this poem.... and let it heal you!

Thursday, September 1, 2011 by Tara

You can learn to keep yourself company,
but only by keeping yourself company —

Do you ask “how are you?” and listen
like a deer deciphering a rustling in the leaves?

Do you say “take a walk with me, and let me show you the woods?”

Do you sing yourself a song?

Now you are the one: the one to care for all the whispers inside
the one to listen to all the children,
to take them to see beautiful places and new sights.

That’s you: the woman leading the field trip,
the woman making hot chocolate for all of them,
the woman saying, “now, now, that’s enough.”

If you feel like an incomplete circle, or a wilted form
go home to silence and listen to yourself.

Give your words a hearing.
Shine each pebble and dagger to the light.
Meet each with lilac compassion.

Then feel: as your own sweet song
overtakes your life and blazes
so loud you need an earth
this listening to hold it.

Contentment springs up,
again and again, from the well
where you least expected to discover it.

-Tara Sophia Mohr

picture credit by Jessica Rose

Cultivaria 2011

glans aand.
mooi aand
Paarl aand
♪

m

ere gaste:

CIMA world Conference CT

Hi all

I had the priviledge to attend the CIMA world conference.
read more here.

- great thought leaders
- great venue ( CTICC )
- great inspiration.

theme for the international conference:
Building world class businesses for the long term: challenges and opportunities.


more later!
m

CIMA = chartered Institute of Management accountants

This has been on my mind, in preparation for the CIMA world conference.
the concept of work
and remuneration
and meaning

Read what Julie Daley has to say. Here is a link to her blog.

Work as Offering

Perhaps like you, I’ve been taught and conditioned to look for results, to see success in my work as something results-oriented. In our current paradigm, that’s how success is measured. Even streams of thought that teach us that success is not based on dollar figures still hold a sense that success is about a certain outcome.

When I read Margaret’s words, “We don’t need it to be any one thing. It is in the way we offer it, that the work transforms us.”, my mind relaxes. I can feel how its been caught up in ‘understanding’ what the ‘one thing’ is that my work must be.

When I read, “It is in the way we offer our work as a gift…”, “It is in the way we offer the work that we find fearlessness.”, I can see my focus has been on the how, on what I am getting done (or not), rather than on the way I offer it and how I hold the work itself.

I sense the how comes out of the offering, the next step comes when I am let go into the love that is there for “those I love, to those I care about, to the issues I care about…”

Go Julie: you are amazing!
m

Nuwe ontmoeting

Ekt onlangs 'n handjievol jong vroue ontmoet by 'n verjaarsdag -partytjie waar ek net 2 mense
( uit 30 ) geken het.


Wat my opgeval het:
Hierdie 5 dames is tussen ouderdom 26-28.
Ek hulle is "smart" ... soos in "clued up" en wakker!



Hulle is vol pret en lus vir die lewe, maar dis nie 'n halsoorkop lus wat jou laat wonder of hul dalk al vir 2 ure red-bull sit en drink het nie...
meer 'n elegante opwinding (as ek dit so kan stel)

en hulle is realisties, wesenlik in beheer van hul tyd/ hul loopbaan/hul verhoudingsmaat / hul klerestyl en hul houding. alles is deurdag, alles is "afgeteken"
ja, hulle "teken" (soos in die Engelse: "sign off ") hulle lewens netjies af.

hulle keur en kies die geselskap wat hul toelaat in hul lewens, maar hul is joviaal en ontvanklik om met 'n 31-jarige wat hul nou pas ontmoet: te praat en te deel.
openlik. suiwer. eerlik.

wat 'n heerlike aand.
En ekt gedink 26-jariges loop hul vas teen die grootmens-wêreld muur van ontnugtering omdat hul nie die moed het om die verblindende sterre in hul oë bietjie te " dim" met realiteit nie.

Hierdie meisies stap 'n pad van ontmoeting.

Ontmoet die lewe nuut elke dag. en bou nie lugkastele nie, maar eerder soliede fondasies waarop BAIE pret (reeds) ervaar word, sonder dat dit krummel of kraak onder die gewig van ontdekking en ontmoeting.

wow.

m

organic.

go go go to this blog: The Organic Sister.

This is a beautiful piece about the "just keep moving" - philosophy and also the "hop of the bicycle and pause" alternative.

I quote Tara Wagner (the organic sister) here:

"Life is meant to be savored, absorbed, adored, experienced."



what magical and delightful words !!
I hope that is your experience of life.

love, m

Geluk

♥

Gelukkig is die een wat die soet reuk van Vrydag al Donderdag-aand ervaar
Gelukkiger is die een wat nie opsien na Maandae nie
Gelukkig is die een wat besef met hoe min sy eintlik oor die weg kan kom
Geseënd is die een wat sy goeie gesondheid elke dag waardeer.


Mag jul gelukkig en geseënd wees.
m

oooh kyk hoe mooi !

uitskryf-werk:
ek mag nie begeer nie
ek mag nie begeer nie
ek mag nie begeer nie

ja jaaaa

the pretty blog

This is such a beautiful blog... I reach for the monitor and want to tear off the front page of this blog and go stick it in my diary.

just open it and have a look: Christine ( well known wedding photographer ) and Nicola.
The Pretty Blog.

They (luckily) do not only have wedding coverage / focus, but lifestyle too.
enjoy. and enjoy the weekend.

Husband and I plus 2 other couples are off to Arniston.
yaya: Thanks Lea for booking it.

Initiative
The lead
The idea

love, m

siedaar

siedaar!
en daar was pret
vreugde
en mooi goed :)


m

hallo Bonjour

Hallo and good-bye

Hallo to a new phase, new season and newness
Hallo to revisiting boundaries and refinement
good bye to stale and cold relationships
good bye to dullness and duty and donkey-thinking
x
m

limp lettuce and smelly vrot tomatoes

people who use their car-hooter at closed estate gates...

are like....

the limp, smelly slimy lettuce at the bottom of the pack. super yucky.
they are like.... the lawnmower noise interrupting the heartbreaking lyric of your favourite song

they are just...
so inconsiderate, selfish and arrogant
and they really really should learn manners and they should also back to grade 1 to learn to read.
The sign on the gate says" No hooting " which is almost as bad as some bathrooms where the sign"please flush" greets you as you close the door... or something insultingly horribly unneccesary.

i mean really!!??

really now.

Lets aim for:













m

another inspirational writer: Ivy.
Domestic Stories.


 

taken from her blog:



 

one thing is certain:

simplicity

charm, tranquility, happiness

&

openness to new horizons

are qualities both desired and welcome

in our lives,

a new home

and

around these lines & pages

there are mails to reply to

and posts to submit

and yet these lines are currently written instead

like a stream...

while my mind is totally blown by:

the story of this magnificent lady & her work

this blog post by a friend which touched me, as does her whole blog

and simple, honest & pure approach to life

i love reading Ivy's posts.

xxm

Julie D-wisdom

original text by Julie, from Unabashedly Female
this is a guest post she did for Britt Bravo. (California, USA)
READ MORE: Have fun. Do Good.

Writing this post has been an illuminating process. From the outside, it seems like a fairly straightforward idea…how I make time for what matters. But, as I sat with the question of what really matters to me, I realized, over time, that what matters isn’t anything I do, it is who I am being, and how I relate to life when I do whatever it is I do.

Below are qualities of being that bring me peace and a resonance with life as it unfolds.

Simple – The busier life gets, the more my soul yearns for simple: less stuff in my life and being with things in a conscious way. When I feel the word "simple" my body relaxes, my breath deepens, my heart opens.
♥

Connected – I’ve spent much of my life as an introvert – perhaps by design, but also by conditioning. What matters to me now is how I am relating to life itself, whether it be family or friends, work colleagues, or the whole of life.
♥

Receiving – Becoming more open and vulnerable has been one of the most challenging (and rewarding) shifts in my way of being in the world. As Hilary Hart writes, “Asking for help is not a solution. It is a state of being.”
♥

Creatively Expressed – There is a channel of creativity that flows directly through each and every one of us. When I’ve expressed what wants to be expressed, I feel peace; when I block it, I feel frustrated, stuck, and sometimes feel a kind of depression. This expression comes through me in many forms: coaching clients, dancing, photography, writing prose and poetry, business, and being with friends and family.





______________ beautiful words, Thanks Julie_________________________
ps. the beautiful ceramic ware can be found at Vanilla Concrete (Somerset west, Western Cape)

the Girl effect

the video says it all. This is so powerful, so awesome and also so scary.

believe in the power of your actions
believe in the power of change

loVe

hey friends,
feel it
hear it

spread the word.
joy is important
Love is vital

good morning

Hi friend.

Here is a tip:

- get up an hour earlier one morning in the week ( don't plan anything )
- have your dinner for breakfast (trick your body)
- write snailmail to your family (just saying how much you appreciate them)

Ok- enjoy the day!
bye
M