I knew Riana for three months. She stayed in my house, with her husband who is the General Manager here, and their two little girls, two years and six months old.

Abrie and Riana gave up everything to come to work here. It was a calling. This is a place of healing and restoration, and they knew it was where they needed to be.

That’s the way Abrie ( Read more... )

Today I am eating oats for breakfast.

It feels like the first step to normality, and I need to take it, today of all days. It tastes grainy. Today I have no passion for food. Yesterday was different.  I ate a carrot muffin, two samoosas, three mini sausages, a small pastry with mince in it and a glass of Oros.   I might have had a few meatballs too ( Read more... )

My chicken died.

I think it had a heart problem.  Maybe its mother sensed it, which is why she abandoned it.  It just went all lame yesterday morning, cheeped pathetically and then keeled over and died.

I only knew chicken for a few days, but it still wasnt much fun to carry its little cold body to the bin.

Sucks. 

Grandpa and Me

“We are not a good fit with this world”.

He looked me in the eye and I looked straight back at him. Everything my Grandfather said was amazing.

I think we were eating ham sandwiches on the porch or maybe they were egg sandwiches. The certain part of it is that Gran had made them and bought them to us on her blue and white looks-like ( Read more... )

I have a new pet.  It's name is Chicken.

"It", because I have no idea how to tell the sex of a day old chick.

It is a runt that was abandoned by its mother in the nest yesterday.  I rescued it, and have made it a home next to my heater.

It has made a remarkable recovery since rescue, and is already a noisy menace.  I took it into the yard to see ( Read more... )

I travel a lot because of my job.. I dont want to pay rent on a place that I only stay in one month out of three.. so I stay at the conference centre.  This place is owned and run by my mother, and I have a really private space and get left alone, for the most part.

And its free.  At the moment, until this book is finished, thats a really big ( Read more... )

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A haiku is a short none rhyming poem, comprised of three lines, the 1st with five syllables, the 2nd with seven, and the 3rd with five again. Adding to its simplicity, it contains no punctuation.

I hold a small pot
but I can still set it down
it does not hold me

That was one of mine, called “holding on”. I wrote it for a friend who asked me to ( Read more... )

in reference to the pics posted below.. (friends only) those were taken about a week ago.. and my hair was done a few days ago.  Its a vast improvement!  I am a brunette now, and quite liking it... it makes me want to get my goth on...

(an actual msn convo of mine, held today.  I love technology.  Talk about an hour well-spent.)

Roo says:

howdy

soopat says:

yo

soopat says:

I snored all night. can hardly talk this morning. all turning into something old and revolting.

Roo says:

nice

Roo says:

so are u moneygramming cash for karibou man pix today?

soopat says:

I even woke myself up snoring. ( Read more... )