Culture
From Caterpillars to Butterflies
The concept ‘Transformation’ has taken on huge significance in the world in general, and South Africa in particular, during the last few decades.
The Archive
All Stories
28 pieces · Every one human.
Our Stories
Sunrise Sunset
The Sun that surely gives time and rhythm to the Earth and all her inhabitants— life-giving, eternal and as sure as only itself.
Culture
Let the Music Play
Plato called it a moral law. Huxley called it the deepest mystery. Music is humanity's oldest argument for joy.
People
Of Books & Covers
We all know the saying. We all keep doing it anyway. A meditation on the judgements we make before we know a single thing.
Our Stories
RM Hewett is Welcome Here
An editor who arrived to correct words stayed to become a cherished friend. Some welcomes change everything.
People
Murmurs of the Mind
Something flighty, whimsical, and true — about the noise of the world, the quiet of two people, and the rare feeling of belonging to a moment.
Poetry· Poetry
Am I Yours?
A poem about belonging and autonomy — a question asked across the seasons of a life.
Healing
What Makes You & Me Who We Are?
Not for the first time did I wonder what makes me me or anyone them? Nor was it the first to wonder at how self absorbed humans in general are.
People
The Trip of my Life!
This week’s post was meant to be a follow up and conclusion to Beyond Sight— Seeing With Your Whole Self but nothing has gone according to plan for all the moving parts that needed to go...
Poetry· Poetry
Mr President
I, all of us gave it. But it escaped me when it ascended to adorn you — and we, left just spectators.
People
Beyond Sight — Seeing with Your Whole Self
In the quest to find out how Persons With Disability experience living with people who don't, I went to REHAB in East London. What I found changed the way I see everything.
People
Missing Sounds & Silent Worlds
I became painfully aware that I’ve done nothing on this website for the other members of society who have different kinds of abilities from most of us. I’m talking about...