Archive for July, 2009

The King is dead,long live the King- a rant

You know how it is. You go out and buy yourself a new car, say for example, a red Mitsubishi Lancer. For the next week or two, as you drive around town, you never cease to be amazed at how many other drivers have exhibited the same good taste as yourself. Everywhere you look, it [...]

Reflections on Africa-the Angel is in the details

As many of you know, I snuck back into New Zealand the Saturday before last, not long after sunrise, curiously about the same time of day as when I left. If I appear to have lain low since then, that’s may well have something to do with getting back in the teaching saddle last Monday. [...]

News bits Vol 234….

Kia ora tatou: This will be my last post from Africa. I leave tomorrow afternoon and begin the journey back home via Perth. I should be back next Saturday (NZST).I am looking forward to catching up with fiends, then beginning a whirlwind round of workshops through to September. The WinterLight workshop is full, with only [...]

Singing the music of the spheres-the Tankwa Karoo

Imagine, if you will, a place so vast , so wide open, that the stars stretch down to the horizon. Imagine, if you will, a place where the silence is so deep, so profound, where absolutely nothing disturbs the stillness, that you can eat your heart beating, and every intake of breath rubs harsh and [...]