Bible, Beer and a Tattoo
"Never go on trips with anyone you do not love" - E. Hemmingway Touring with my band-family taught me many things about humanity, nature...
An illegal post
Looking down at my feet as I walk away I do not notice what I trod on. Looking back my head is too high to notice what I destroyed....
Candid Honesty: A Lament.
This is not a response to someone. It’s a reaction to my heart. This past couple of weeks I have come to learn many new things of myself....
African Child
“African born, raised and by choice.” These were the words of Oom Francois Rauch in 2013 to me when I asked where he was from originally....
AFRICA(N)
I am not an African. So if you know me personally and you have read the above statement you probably never thought of hearing that from...
Unity in Diversity
“Reconciliation has to do with our personal relationship with God and that this is connected to relationships with others” (De Gruchy,...
Stil(l) Shouting Silently
So I’m chilling on this week of spirituality in the valley where Heaven meets Earth (Hemel en Aarde vallei near Hermanus) when silence...
Crazy Enough to change the world?
Inspired by JP, Rodé and Werner Groenewald. This goes out to some crazy friends of mine who actually believe they can change the world....
Life in a bullet (train)
At this very moment in time I`m moving at 300km/h heading North somewhere in East Asia in a bullet train. My mind is spinning a bit,...
A Shack load of love. Njekanjalo.
A Shack load of love. Njekanjalo. When living a simple life for a week the return to the “normal” world seems blasphemous. Driving into...
Death. Hope. Life.
“I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.” ― Woody Allen I went there. It was a Monday morning at 08:17...
Africa, hope and home.
You will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the...
Give me hope Johanna
There’s this song my mom hates. It’s about this chick called Johanna who presumably can give “me” hope. My mom hates it because we had a...
Plat Voet
"This too shall pass" I don't know whose quote this is, but it changed my life in my last few years in High School. My English teacher...