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South African Diva
http://www.southafricandiva.blogspot.com
Musings and meanderings of a South African family living in Silicon Valley.
- Added on: Jun 21st, 2008
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Safricandiva
- Listed in: Personal Writing
- Tags: africa family Culture writing south africa history
Recent Posts
Fun for One.
What is your particular joy in written words? No, not the ones that march across your brain single-file, colorless and droll, with no back-beat. Those would be work emails, newspaper headlines, instructions, lists, reminders, actionable anythings. No...
Ode to Glamour.
Today I considered the glamour of those I chose.Family -- the unchosen -- sometimes spark anger, disappointment, frustrations, feelings of being taken for granted. So in counteraction -- here, my friends --you all are at your finest, in no particular...
Catching my breath.
The tightness is loosening. Slowly. But it has begun. My throat is unclenching and the squeezing around my heart is relaxing. I lost my balance, my tuned chakras, my feet lifted off the ground unexpectedly. I just got really tired, and pushed on inst...
Beach of Dreams.
I am sitting under a gently swaying palm tree, ten feet from the ocean, contemplating the necessary ingredients for a lip smacking Mai-tai. It is peaceful, with a smattering of groggy people about and the ululating ocean the only notable sound in the...
Playing with water.
It's been a while since I've blogged -- work, kids, family, illnesses and a touch of drama has made me distracted and choking down ideas I normally would have aired on this wide ether. But this week I had some fun. I got to plant my feet on the groun...
Buddy.
Life never ceases to surprise us, does it?Just when we automatically thought our government would always be run by aged, white men and occasionally enjoyed entertaining the notion of some day having a female commander-in-chief, our friends and neighb...
