yippeee.... my Ronellie is terug van oorsee....

Hello Ronel !

Ons het jou gemis. 

Welkom terug op eie bodem.

Sien uit om alles te hoor.

ps. Ons moet weer Col'Cacchio toe gaan!

Baie liefde,

I want to bake for you

as you are the sweetest thing in my life..

adding spice & sugar to the journey.

♥

joy

you are strong like the mountain

against which your house leans

Loving life - Monday-moods

and that is how I feel about you....♥

(image credit: Mahoney Joe)

Person of the week: Dimitri February

Person of the week: Dimitri.

guide at Ceres Zip sliding Advenures

funny, yet tactful and never out of line.

gentle yet strong

capable without being arrogant

and did EVERY slide with me.

tandem-love.

made sure I was okay.

reassured me.

didnt make me feel like a scaredy-cat-baby.

thanks Dimitri for doing this 6 days a week 

from 8 - 5pm...

loving nature, 

promoting your valley,

being a great sport

and a lovely guy!

♥

 

a day of adventure

Mom celebrated her birthday on Thursday and wanted to do something fun and memorable...

introduce: Ceres Zipsliding Adventures

It consists of 8 lines  /  wires

 creating a zig-zag tightrope 

path down the mountain.

_______________

You start quite high up in the mountain 

and gradually slide down the 8 wires to reach the bottom.

Varying degrees of height/ length and incline.... 

look at these awesome photos taken by Michael J Ortlip, 

(newest addition to the family.)

my brave, adventure loving sister Blanche did so well !

Mom did brilliantly 

and Dad, Chris and Mike just slid/glided as if they do this every other day...

many jokes were made, 

laughs, 

references to "The Village people",

nervous twitters, 

camera shutters,

I clung to my hero-guide- Dimitri 

and would not attempt it without him...

tandem-love

♥ brilliant day!

happiness is...

happiness is ...
 knowing I'll bump into you

and I'll hang that memory
in the frame of my heart.

I'm developing this.... for life

affection

Part of Speech:

noun

Definition:

strong fondness

Synonyms:

amore, ardor, attachment, care, case*, closeness, concern, crush, desire, devotion, emotion, endearment, feeling, friendliness, friendship, good will, hankering*, heart, inclination, itch, kindness, liking, love, passion, predilection, propensity, puppy love, regard, sentiment, soft spot, solicitude, tenderness, warmth

recite it - learn it -

Sarah Kay

 performs at the New York City's Bowery Poetry club.

spoken poetry

live poetry

amazing voice and expression !

I love her sense of urgency and the way her whole body speak her prose.

♥

"On the Other Side of Fear feels like coming home …

 to the home you always wish you had, 

to the home you deserve, 

to the home you’ve been carrying around inside you without ever realizing it was there, 

accessible and welcoming, 

the whole time.

 Read these poems 

and fall in love 

with your beautiful, imperfect self;

 in Julia’s words, 

‘slow way down/ get close and closer/ listen like crazy to your life".~

 

 ♥

 

 Judy Clement Wall, writer

still have the pen in hand but somebody closed the book

We never know for sure what motivates other people.

Still, the human desire to construct explanations for other people’s behavior is very strong

♥

what causes people to propel into profound emotional distance?

In some cases, relationships simply go through cycles of closeness.

We don’t have to try to process everything.

A good friend may simply drift away, lose interest, or find other friends to hang out with.

Harriet Lerner

♥

today I am thinking of everybody who lost somebody,

who is on the other end of a closed-chapter,

still with pen in hand...

and was keen to keep writing / engaging.

and found the book closed...

♥

you know who you are...

because you are and always will be... 
my
Pois de senteur
♥

page 119:
Dr Cloud & Townsend

" To deeply identify with another person is to think about the effects of your behaviour on that other person.
It is to get out of the self-centeredness of just acting to please oneself."

i am willing to move beyond the self serving actions and
i am willing to think about you.
first.

spontane vreugde

liefde

deernis

spontane vreugde

person of the week: Simone (Meier) Berkinshaw

this lady wins "person of the week" 

for looking after our friend Marc Berkinshaw in chilly- UK 

and being a good wife to him.

she has a heart for cancer research

 ♥

is not indifferent to people's hurt

loves her family dearly

is expecting a baby ( first granchild in their family )

and is celebrating her birthday today.

Thought for the Day

by Ivan M. Granger

We don't get the greatest gifts, we give ourselves to them instead.

chapter 19

The Cookbook collector

" Looking back, analysts could predict the crash.

They spoke of weak fundamentals, softening in the tech sector, reckless speculation.

But who can measure appetite, 

or 

predict the limits of desire?

Who can chart Love's parabola, 

from acquaintance to infatuation to estrangement?

Multiply by millions buying and selling.

Small exits accrued into a great migration, darkening the sun..."

saturday silliness

word of the day:

silliness  [sil-ee]

Part of Speech:

noun

Definition:

folly

Synonyms:

absurdity, craziness, foolishness, goofiness, inaneness, inanity

because today is a day of silliness...  ask the silly questions.. cut those silly dead leaves . cut them off. and call forth new life.

the cookbook collector

lovely book -

do read -

 

Im in love

Valentines' Day..... glittering eyelids of my soul's desire

Love and Sleep

Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909)

---

Lying asleep between the strokes of night I saw my love lean over my sad bed, Pale as the duskiest lily's leaf or head, Smooth-skinned and dark, with bare throat made to bite, Too wan for blushing and too warm for white, But perfect-coloured without white or red. And her lips opened amorously, and said-- I wist not what, saving one word--Delight. And all her face was honey to my mouth, And all her body pasture to mine eyes; The long lithe arms and hotter hands than fire, The quivering flanks, hair smelling of the south, The bright light feet, the splendid supple thighs And glittering eyelids of my soul's desire. ♥

oooh I swoon over....

Goolam Ballim

 that voice

that brain

that presentation style.

he is mesmerizing.

I think I'm in love with a Research- economist...

I could listen to him all day.

#Standard Bank- Economy presentation CTICC

valentynstemming

kom solank in die Valentynsgees

hartjies oral

♥

Rainer M Rilke

I am much too alone in this world, yet not alone 
    enough
to truly consecrate the hour.
I am much too small in this world, yet not small 
    enough
to be to you just object and thing, 
dark and smart.

Rainer M Rilke

♥

This was a weekend of love:

meeting my sister's new love

missing old loves

finding new love in a 8 year old relationship

and redefining love

♥

Dirty Dancing

soos my vriendin mooi gesê het na die eerste helfte in die Artscape laas naweek:
 "dit is maar alles foreplay..."

                     

ek kon nie ophou giggle nie...
en toe Maandag haar kwinkslag:
Johnny het sy rol-voorbereiding skynbaar geskoei op Johnny Bravo en nie Johnny Castle....

                                                                                      

 Italiaanse danser: Gareth Baily speel Johnny.

ek ♥ Artscape

waarhede

waarhede ... truth and growth
kosbaar.... skepping en sagtheid

Strawberry Shortcake we love !!

who says we need to grow up?!

I'm getting me my pre-school favourite girl again!

Now; how do I get this past Chris....

♥                           ♥                                ♥                                        ♥                                                                   ♥

truth...

5de Feb 2013 -- double Birthday Boom !

Veels Geluk Elrika en Fran !!

laat dit juig !!  ♥

Person of the week: Prilosha Naidoo- Corrigall

This is the most elegant, refined lady...

beautiful wife to Stuart

loyal friend

 ♥

clever and committed employee

and darling mom to Lexi.

Prilosha wins Person of the week for her unwavering sparkle and charm.

Subtle and Stunning.

Picture credit: vividBlue Photography.

wedding day: 17 Nov 2012

3de Feb

hardloop saam Abby
uit-asem
gelukkig

geen titel

soms is woorde oorbodig
'n titel of opskrif onnodig
net wees

biiig fish....

 

 

I feel like a small fish in a small pond...

♥

I'm swimming in the wrong direction?

 

(picture credit: Chanelle Art)