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

to read

oooh I enjoyed reading this!
In over your head ( blog, which you can access here )

Julien Smith writes with wit, honesty and leaces you feeling like he was sitting chatting to you in the lounge (with a beer in his hand perhaps) nonchalant truthful raw.

i love it.

here is an excerpt:

The Joker is the personification of risk, something the average person finds thrilling. He does things that others would never dare to do, but everyone sees inside themselves. Why is that?

Modern society is stifling. The options for how to behave are limited and unfulfilling. Max Weber called it the Iron Cage because it eventually stifles and crushes anything polarizing. We have no choice but to submit in the majority of our lives.

What we start realizing if we spend enough time in cities is that this society breeds sheep. This isn’t even necessarily bad– it’s largely responsible for the stability of the age we live in. And these people can’t even be held responsible for it– the pressure of our society is so crushing that you have no choice but to submit, even at the cost of your long-term happiness.

__________________________________________________________________

how cool is Julien!
ciao ciao

appreciation

when was the last time you stood still and thought...
wow I'm not blind
wow I can feed myself and clothe myself

wow I have a job ( a place where I am able to make a meaningful contribution )

like really:
just stop (in the isle in the shop)
just stop (on the way back from a meeting)
just stop (your thoughts) as the petrol attendant fills up your car
just mentally stop for a second
and smile


much love, Maria

Langebaan weekend

L A N G E B A A N L I E F D E

I love the West Coast... it is shy and refined when you look past the "boep & bier" manne...



Pictures of my aunt & uncle's beautiful new home.
Family Fun!!

Crown birthday of the youngest: turning 24 on the 24th of Sept... and husband's 33rd celebration.

breathtaking poetry

PRAISE THEM
The birds don't alter space.
They reveal it.
The sky never fills with any
leftover flying.
They leave
nothing to trace. It is our own
astonishment collects
in chill air. Be glad.
They equal their due
moment never begging,
and enter ours
without parting day.
See how three birds in a winter tree
make the tree barer.

Two fly away, and new rooms
open in December.
Give up what you guessed
about a whirring heart, the little
beaks and claws, their constant hunger.
We're the nervous ones.
If even one of our violent number
could be gentle
long enough that one of them
found it safe inside
our finally untroubled and untroubling gaze,
who wouldn't hear
what singing completes us?

Li-young Lee

look at love
look at love how it tangles with the one fallen in love look at spirit how it fuses with earth giving it new life why are you so busy with this or that or good or bad pay attention to how things blend why talk about all the known and the unknown see how the unknown merges into the known why think separately of this life and the next when one is born from the last look at your heart and tongue one feels but deaf and dumb the other speaks in words and signs look at water and fire earth and wind enemies and friends all at once the wolf and the lamb the lion and the deer far away yet together look at the unity of this spring and winter manifested in the equinox you too must mingle my friends since the earth and the sky are mingled just for you and me be like sugarcane sweet yet silent don't get mixed up with bitter words my beloved grows right out of my own heart how much more union can there be

RUMI

beautiful words by "wise living"- Tara Mohr

This is your time.

Your time to say what you have kept silent.
Your time to ask your big questions without apology.
Your time to shine like a blazing comet,
whether they like it or not.

Your time to believe what your heart tells you:
that this world could be very different.
Your time to live by your rhythms,
and teach them to the world.

Your time nurture your village back to health.
Your time to show the world what it has been missing.
Your time to show the world the other side of itself.

-Tara

read more about her here.

lang pad
oop pad
groot pad
vêr pad
altyd pad

m

skoonpa

Dit is met diepe hartseer dat ons
afskeid neem van pa-Tonie

ons harte is oopmond-verslae
ons hande in die lug
en ons besef weer
dat ons lewenskruik
druppeltjie vir druppletjie
uitloop
lek
of ons dit nou wil weet of nie
daar is geen een wat die dood
se onwelkome roep
kan ontglip
so daar waar ons
druppels val
moet
iets groei
iets moois
iets ewigs

m

hartseer

Hartseer
jys nie meer
nie meer lag of vlees
nie meer honger of alleen
nie meer asem
nie

m

Person of the week: Chris Swanepoel ♥

person of the week:

Chris Swanepoel

Le me count the ways......  Mmm.....

encouragement (during and for my 2 interviews)

Gentle hug when I get frustrated and doubtful (refer above)

Consummate host to my friends,

while I am fluttering from table to table.

Sharing my goose-bump excitement-state about my birthday-dinner.

Naturally caring with the children ( Below is Marsan's youngest: Riaan )

All-round: 

wild at heart, but with safely keeping a soft landing for me.

Forever grateful,  M

Wild Happiness

Happiness is a warm hug & kiss on the cheek to a little person just starting out on this journey.

(picture taken on 1st of Sept: Anton's birthday) happy evening.

Marsan: you and Francois have 2 beautiful boys.

and then

happiness is:

having all the people you care about

in 1 room 

and hearing their voices twirl and dance 

together.

Magic: Saturday 3rd Sept.

My 31st birthday celebration.

 Thank you all for coming!!

I was having too much fun: I did not get to capture all the guests on camera.

My life is magic thanks to all my friends & family

mmmwha

M

Change and Transformation.

Today I learnt something new.

Change may happen to you (in other words, it may come from external and impact you)

 The facilitator presented it graphically like this:

beginning --------- implementation ---------- end 

but Transformation occurs inside of you and it looks like this:

End of a chapter / closure --------Neutral state (assembling info) ----- new beginning

I find that I move too fast between cycles and then leave my heart panting and out of breath 20km behind me, feeling lost and disjointed.

I expect it to embrace new beginnings, but I have not even given it room to find closure of that which is no longer.

it is no wonder my heart is so angry.

mon coeur trouve son rythme avec vous

aptitude

Good morning

I have taken the day off to prepare and organise my mind
for this afternoon's psychometric tests

(This forms part of the recruitment and selection process of something I am pursuing)

Fascinating material.
I do what my husband did when he had to write his wedding-speech: he googles.

I am reading through the different sections and test-fields, when it strikes me:
Luckily people need not pass an aptitude test to knock and enter through the door of life!
Few of us would be here...
I read through definitions of

• Verbal reasoning
• Numeric reasoning
• Abstract reasoning
• Spatial reasoning
• Mechanical reasoning
• Data checking
• Work sampling

Truly tickles the mind out of its (numb?) comfort zone-stuff.

I'll keep you posted on the test-scores this afternoon.