by Richard | Sep 25, 2010 | Creative Writing, Reflections
‘Today is gonna be the day…” A sign slicing by reports only four hundred kilometres until Johannesburg, before being lost behind me. Lost in the dead flat Free State fields. I’m not checking the mirror today. There’s enough behind me. “Backbeat, the word is on...
by Richard | Sep 16, 2010 | Africa, Journalism, Tanzania, Travel
There are the days, The ones we will remember forever Tired eyes bear that same light Inexhaustible Tight corners at the smiles Reflected in the tears that never age The laughter and the pain of these days… The Kapiri Mposhi station stands as the whitest of...
by Richard | Sep 11, 2010 | Creative Writing
One block left in the journalism syllabus for the year. An elective we could choose out of a range covering everything from photojournalism to long-form writing. I had intended so absolutely to dedicate my energies to photojournalism – yet swapped in a...
by Richard | Aug 19, 2010 | Africa, Journalism, South Africa, Travel
South Africa’s oldest Presbyterian church lies silently with its brother in the hills an hour and a half from Grahamstown. They have been sitting in quiet contemplation for a very, very long time; and will likely contemplate a long time still. The Glen Lynden churches...
by Richard | Aug 14, 2010 | Africa, Cape to Cairo, Creative Writing, South Africa, Travel
Bodhisatta (n): In the Pali canon, the Bodhissata Siddhartha Gotama is described thus: Before my awakening, when I was an unawakened Bodhisatta, being subject myself to birth, sought what was likewise subject to birth. Being subject myself to aging… illness… death…...
