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It was an ambivalent day, the day of my great grandmother Moewaka Jane Rapana’s unveiling, ambivalent how? Well, neither the day nor the weather could agree who was going to have first say about how events would pan out and eventually we left them to argue between themselves like siblings in a childhood dust up.
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I love that it ain’t over till it’s over. There’s something wilfully satisfying about being able to thumb your nose at the doom and gloom-sayers. It’s quite a delicious feeling infact, something smugly satisfying about proving them wrong.
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Where do you think the strength in us all comes from? Maybe the well-spring of some quiet pool deep in our heart’s forest do you think? Or bubbling up from an underground spa where no-one knows its source or beginning? I’m not sure
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Years ago a little four year old boy taught me a life lesson that’s stayed with me for a long long time, that’s how valuable it’s been to me. It was one of the kindest reprimands I’ve ever received and looking back now I’m sure he wouldn’t even remember it if I reminded him.
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Infidelity is painful. To be the innocent party in it is gut-wrenching. My dear friend is in this gut-wrenching, god-forsaken place and I feel helpless to help her. Instead, I hide my own tears in a purposeful resolve to listen well, make strong pots of tea (because
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