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: The present
Bureaucracy gone mad
I know this story may sound small and petty compared to the apparently insurmountable problems facing our country and the world. Like Eskom going downhill for 20 years and ever record-breaking unemployment. Like the fact that humanity seems to have chosen to go extinct this century. Certainly it has chosen to end the world as …
Are the zebras going to attack us?
For context, I need to tell you that I recently moved from Durban (‘my city’ for more than 50 years) to Amber Valley, a large retirement village on the Karkloof Road just outside Howick. Coincidentally, my Mansfield grandparents retired from Johannesburg to Howick in the 1950s. From the Karkloof Road, this 1 000-plus home …
Stranger in the park
I went walking in the local park this morning, as I do every morning and evening, but this morning was different. I take my two dogs: Rocket and Luna. The walk is good and provides exercise for all three of us. I count the steps I walk each day, or at least the pedometer step …
Thoughts and Memories - Peter Mansfield 