African Renaissance
Survivors: Romantic love, the writing life and my heroine, Virginia Woolf
Her hair came undone
somehow in the water. And how it spread out. It was a flame. It was something
significant fanning, framing her beautiful, wonderful...
Alone in the dark: The Sylvia Plath Effect and the Northern Areas poet
I was 16 when I first attempted to take my own life. I was seeing a
psychiatrist (he of the Einsteinian-hair, he had studied at...
Finally diagnosed with Bipolar and understanding God’s purpose for my life
I've outlasted a lot of things. I'm over 35. I am nearing 40 years of
age. I've made mistakes and lived with regret but I...
Thoughts after reading Kiran Desai’s “The Inheritance of Loss”
You will experience happiness, I was the one who told myself this. No
one else. The museum has invited me again to one of their...
Art, poetry, the native as slave, the American Civil War and the promulgation of the Group Areas Act
We must look at the subtle variations of both education and philosophy,
the quality of white lie, truth, the conversation which is significant, key, law,
abstract,...
Grace, mercy, human angels, thoughts while reading Rilke’s “The Book of Hours”
Yes, I believe in angels. Have come to accept that there is even angels
who appear in human form. That there is their mission in...
Theology in post-apartheid South Africa and the prophets of the city
So, I think
about the brave, and the thoughtful, and the supernatural, I think about divine
intuition, our divine assignment, our divine meetings when it comes...
God, thinking of the film “A beautiful mind”, the life of John Nash
I've lived with
relapse and recovery, the hospitalization of mental illness recurring every six
months or so since my early twenties. I don't talk very much...
Finally being diagnosed with bipolar
I was finally diagnosed with bipolar mood disorder after Tara. I spent 6 months in a mental institution in Johannesburg. Mental illness stamped on...
After being diagnosed “Perhaps Schizophrenic”
Risperdal, do you know it. Zopiclone, Pax, Ativan, Lithium (yes, the drug that has brought millions to their knees, that sent me flying into...