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A visual book launch – pictures from Vovo Telo launch 1

This morning at the Warehouse in Wetton [12 Plantation Road] at 9.30 we will be holding the second of the three Cape Town book launches and after the success of the first one on Thursday night at Vovo Telo in Steenberg, we are very much looking forward to it. Here are some pictures taken by […]

Book Launch Round 1: Vovo Telo

And so it begins… or continues… with the first of a number of book launches, which took place at Vovo Telo restaurant in Steenberg. One of the aspects of last night’s incredible book launch was setting up five different stations of ‘communion’ – one was the traditional grape juice and crackers and then we had […]

it takes a village to raise a book

Well, today is book launch day. This has been a long time coming. And then suddenly over the last few months and then especially the last four weeks, someone cranked up the speed and there was a loud WHOOSH and now it is here. And tonite i will get to celebrate with largely friends and […]

This is our time: Protea Fire

i was there when Jonty Rhodes did the unthinkable, throwing himself through the air and demolishing Inzamam Ul Haq’s stumps to run him out and change fielding in cricket forever. Well, i mean i wasn’t actually there, but i was at home watching on my tv and my love affair with cricket had just recently […]

Okay we get it… now what?

My friend Megan just drew my attention to this most excellent article by Max Du Preez titled ‘Let go of the anger’ with a little warning disclaimer that i should not read the comments. [Honestly, why would i do that to myself? And yes now EVERYthing in me wants to read the comments – thankx […]

With great white power comes great fragility.

Why do white people tend to freak out when the conversation moves to being about race? i just read an excellent interview article online that spoke into some of the things i have been thinking and observing and while it is worth reading the whole thing, there are two aspects i wanted to dive into. […]

Book launch – ‘i, church’ – one mouthful

So the books have arrived and with one week to go [well three days] until launch number 1 [which is totally FULL UP], i thought i would give a more sizeable taste of what you can expect. One of the chapters in the book is titled, ‘6 passages the church needs to take more seriously’ […]

the moment it all became more slightly real… So

So maybe 15 years ago i wrote a book called, ‘If your christianity is easy, you’re doing it wrong.’ i put it on a metaphorical shelf and waited for something to happen with it and nothing did. And there was evening, and there was morning… the first day. A few years later, i wrote a […]

DEATH becomes him: Ode to Terry Pratchett

“AT LAST, SIR TERRY, WE MUST WALK TOGETHER.” For anyone who has been a fan of the wit and writing of Terry Pratchett, those words were a fitting pronouncement that he had passed on from life. Whenever words appeared in CAPS in the Discworld novels [of which there are 40] it signalled the arrival of […]

One person who gives Megan hope in South Africa is: brett “Fish” anderson

So this is a little awkward… but i was never one to shy away from awkward… Today while i was out in town i got an email which i checked on my phone and it was from my friend and Improv guru, Megan Furniss, and simply subjected, ‘a little thing i wrote’, and so i […]