A windy day
Today was a windy day in Cape Town. People here call the wind the “Cape Doctor” because the wind, when it blows hard, as it often likes to do, takes the dirty air away. Today there was the windy doctor, and clouds poured from the top of the mountain that towers over Cape Town and […]
Creativity
28 9 2023 The man sat down at his little desk to write. It was raining and windy outside and the wind blew the rain sideways sometimes. The man sat at his desk but he did not know what to write. The man doubted himself. He knew how to doubt himself very well. He knew […]
Of flowers and soil
Snapshot 17 July 2023 CAPE TOWN, South Africa—When you start calling yourself a writer there is the imagined expectation that each word you write will be an alchemical mixture of, at the least, sunlight and gold. Sometimes that is the case, but writing is as much about the glittering nuggets made of sunlight and gold […]