In the next month I will become a grandfather for the first time, and this morning I realised I have no idea how to be one. What are you supposed to say when you meet the little bundle? What are you supposed to DO? What are you supposed NOT to do? What are you supposed [...]
In South Africa you are not allowed to get paid for donating blood. That puts a lot of pressure on the blood service as they must convince people to donate for no other reason than helping others. I donated blood about two weeks ago and my encounter with them went like this: 1. while donating [...]
There is a saying that goes something like this: “When a child is 12 years old, he cannot believe how little his parents know. When he is 18, he can’t believe how much they learned in 6 years”. I am amazed at what I have learned in the past 3 months – all things that [...]
When man talks about “clean”, he actually has in his mind “sterile”. You cannot do that with nature. In nature, if something is sterile, it is dead. If man cleans nature, he terminates life. We should stop cleaning and start enjoying, stop abusing and start using, stop existing and start living. May you have a [...]
