DRIFTING PAST CLOUDSRemember lying on your back, on warm grass,Staring at the blue sky?Meditating,like only young kids can do.We let thoughts come and go.We drift past fluffy white clouds.Later, we realise, the clouds drift past us.
Category: Memories
“The sardines have NOT arrived!”
A friend of mine in Leisure Bay, Libby Goodall, yesterday sent me a short video of a shoal of 'sardines' floundering in shallow water at Pennington Beach on the KwaZulu-Natal South Coast. The video of the shivering/shimmering fish dragged my memory back almost 50 years to a similar sunny mid-June day in 1970. A year …
Being disappeared!
Ever noticed how in Western societies us old folk are sort of 'disappeared' by the following generations? I am not talking about family (that is another discussion) but by society as a whole. Being disappeared is not an event. More a process. One day one notices that people are looking past one or through one, …
The fishermen’s wall – Umngazi River Mouth
The rivers in the Transkei are different to those in KwaZulu-Natal. The difference lies in the sugarcane farming along the KZN coast and the natural grasslands along the Transkei coast. Most KZN rivers and their lagoons are silted up by the soil washing off the sugar cane lands. The rivers in the Transkei are not, …
Thoughts and Memories - Peter Mansfield 