Being me in the world
People often say that it is possible to have four seasons in one day at Sedge. Well, today was one of those days. It gets light quite late here, so I go running only around 8. During my run today, the sun was coming up into a clear blue sky – not a cloud in…
Sarah’s birthday. Sometimes, the sheer beauty, magnificence and splendour of nature can be almost overwhelming and can remind us how, at times, it is only possible to respond with your soul. The sunset tonight was like that. The boys had been at the shops, while the girls and I got ready for having the family…
I wonder what constitutes the ‘perfect day’… I’m sure it is a term that differs so vastly – in fact, as vastly as people themselves differ. For some, it must be about, possibly, doing absolutely nothing; for others, about doing more than everything. For a group is may be about making pots of money; for…
It feels as though it is just about half way through July already. Time just seems to fly. I simply cannot believe it is only 2 months off a year since the whole cancer thing began. This time last year… It’s amazing how what we do and how we feel can change so much according…
It’s funny how, even in South Africa, we think of July 4th as the American Day of Independence – such is the exposure on, and influence of, television. Today may be about independence for America, but I’m not so sure about mine. Independence, I mean. We all trekked off to Knysna at what could very…
Today was a good day at Sedge. I can’t help remembering the last time we were here, in December. I was in-between chemos and wasn’t feeling very well quite a lot of the time. I also was not in the state to be able to run very far or efficiently and did not feel at…
I have decided that humans are funny creatures. Actually, I knew this a long time ago, it’s just kind of fun to be reminded of it at times – especially when I am the human who is so funny… I think we all crave attention in some way. Man is, after all, a social being….
Today we journeyed to the end of the world, or so it felt. We are staying in a really lovely re-done farmhouse near Joubertina in the Eastern Cape. When we booked, we never really asked about distances and locations, so it was well into the evening and we were getting closer all the time when…
Up close and personal is not necessarily the way one would like to encounter an elephant in a national park, especially the Addo Elephant Park. That is, of course, exactly what we did, within minutes (just about) of entering the park this morning. I’ve only ever been that close to an elephant once before –…
When you have something like cancer, I think that you learn quite quickly that it is worth taking any chance you may get to do something unusual or fun. Well, just about any chance. That’s a funny thing, I think, because, in so many ways, my cancer feels as though it was not as ‘bad’…