Worse year EVER

  Yes, Carrie fisher died yesterday, and Bowie died this year. Yes we proberbly killed a lot of people by human ignorance and stupidity. Hum...

9:00 AM
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Love is

  I know our friend Alex really was our friend when instead of dropping us at the train he drove all the way to the air port and had dinner ...

11:04 AM
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The sea inside

  For some this time of year can be rather than a time of celebration. A time for sadness, loneliness. While we reflect upon the year that w...

11:30 AM
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Letuce celebrate

  Let us celebrate, the resilience of the human spirit this Christmas. Let us celebrate the space for allowing creative expression, and havi...

12:23 PM
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Peas on earth

  During this festive seasons, let us consider to bring peace to those around us. Let us be kinder, to others and the environment. Let us st...

12:13 PM
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Internalized rain

  For those of you, who struggle with the infinite sadness. I'm sure you can relate to those days when you feel like, nope - mind says n...

11:50 AM
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Brain fog

  The extent of the ability of my mind to focus on well anything after 2 1:2 weeks of marking & invidulating. Nil. When you've been ...

11:38 AM
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Grin

  The immense relief one feels putting a proposal together for a long while and finally get in approved by the faculty. Only to discover its...

3:41 PM
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Undirected actions

  Today's post has to do with the notion of following instructions & creativity. Yes you are a creative person I get that. Please re...

12:25 PM
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Brixton Kwai

Random Friday night doodles. On the theme #lovebrixton 

8:42 AM
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Where we live

Where I live, and what inspires me to think and create. Is the Frenzy of living in a small house on-top of a big hill, in the middle of ...

8:40 AM
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Ideal Living Location

Ideally, I think, we all crave solitude. Spaces to think and Breath space to be alone, to meditate on the world, the divine or just be...

8:36 AM
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Space

All of us, suck at something. There is a necessary space for lets called constructive failure. Apparently, I fail at spelling as evid...

1:54 PM
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Headlines

This is a precursor to a piece I've been thinking about. Something about the language we use to describe events in relation to perc...

1:34 PM
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FUBAR

The last few weeks on Wits campus have been a little nuts. 

1:31 PM
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The middle (Class)

Reflecting on the goings on our campus over the last few days, shock, horror. An overwhelming sense of sadness and loss. That, partiall...

7:37 PM
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Students protesters and Police Retaliation

Todays Muttering, I've drawn a map of police action and student numbers on East campus between 11:30 & 1:30. Tuesday 05 Octobe...

10:34 AM
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The academic position

Sitting in my office today, listening to the stun grenades and rubber bullets. The small of smoke and gas. Really where does one find a plac...

4:52 PM
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Relax ( can also be read as chill out)

In the ridiculous expectations we make for ourselves. Do we ever stop and think, would I expect this level of perfection from others? I...

4:31 PM
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Threat

4:29 PM
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Protestors needs

As Evidenced by a sign lying in out building today, "Please listen to the students". May reflect a profound need by Fees must...

4:29 PM
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Protestors

Sometimes one wonders about the level of hysteria on campus, versus actual threat to safety.  Wits Staff can be divided into two camp...

4:17 PM
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Dogs

Yup, after all that the one place I don't want the dogs to be. Yup that's the spot... 

5:44 PM
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Places I'd like to go

Places I'd like to go, to be quite. 

7:52 PM
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I didn't need sleep anyway

The joy of insomnia, after spending an entire afternoon in meetings and being even more muddled as to the way forward.... No sleep brai...

7:50 PM
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Silence

I could speak on many things today. Today I will speak about silence. Are we complicit in our silence? For the better part of this ye...

9:31 PM
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Melancholy, the infinite sadness

For anyone who's ever suffered from depression. That sense that everything is wrong with the world. There is nothing that any of us...

5:58 PM
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Creating Dignity Through Pedestrian/NMT Routes - A Small not so scholarly rant.

The dignity of sidewalks THE USE OF NON-MOTORISED TRANSPORT ROOTS FOR THE CREATION OF DIGNITY FOR THE ORDINARY SOUTH AFRICA. by : ...

4:34 PM
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Thinking

Just being by yourself alone and thinking is quite a difficult thing to do. Sometimes I wonder how we are supposed to create anything meanin...

6:45 AM
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Vale of comparison

I don't know about you, but I should be banned from Facebook or social media of any kind. Mainly since one never sees the pain and suffe...

8:13 PM
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Taxonomy of pizza eaters

That is all. 

8:45 PM
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Friendship taxonomy

In any taxonomy of  Friendship is is neccicary to classify persons from friends, people who whine to share you very soul, these people are a...

8:18 PM
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Happiness

The inverse law of happiness. Time spend making beautiful things > x 3  time spent organising cap. 

7:11 PM
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Stuff

We should really all only purchase things we love. For any use at all. Beautiful  things just work fucking better. 

7:08 PM
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Things I own

More on this, minimalist thought. Crockery where does it come from? Why does it always take up so much space? and why does my husband...

7:06 PM
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Projects

I've been thinking recently about things that make me happy. Possibly because I'm not feeling very contented presently. Mostly ...

7:03 PM
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Books

I have spent the vast portion of today, assembling a new book shelf. Unpacking all my books and re-packing them again. This gives me imm...

6:58 PM
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South Africa according to capetonians

Unicorns or satten

In every election there seems to be two options vote for use or your voting for the enemy. Saten. Why is this, aren't political parties ...

10:08 AM
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Inertia of voting

So I voted today, grudgingly. It seems that in the last two elections, I essentially seem to spend quite a lot of time, reading discussing, ...

10:06 AM
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Election Day 2016

The voice of the people

In a small work of art I have been pursuing recently, is the idea of the voice of the people has been silenced. As evidenced by the l...

3:14 PM
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Pin head

For anyone pursuing, post graduate studies I am one must find a topic as small as a pin head on which to write in great depth. Of c...

2:56 PM
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I'm Sorry

Sometimes I wish the world was fair, that the deserving rose to the top. That hard work was always rewarded with success. I really wi...

12:35 PM
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Anything

What can yoga teach us about life? Well being still for one. Other things as well, like for example, yesterday after 2+ years of wo...

10:05 AM
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