Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Kafkaesque ...
Woody Guthrie" As I went walking, I saw a sign there, And on the sign there, It said "no trespassing." But on the other side, it didn't say nothing! That side was made for you and me."
Monday, April 23, 2012
The Road to Hell
Well I'm standing by a river
But the water doesn't flow
It boils with every poison you can think of
And I'm underneath the streetlights
But the light of joy I know
Scared beyond belief way down in the shadows
And the perverted fear of violence
Chokes a smile on every face
And common sense is ringing out the bells
This ain't no technological breakdown
Oh no, this is the road to Hell
And all the roads jam up with credit
And there's nothing you can do
It's all just bits of paper
Flying away from you
Look out world take a good look
What comes down here
You must learn this lesson fast
And learn it well
This ain't no upwardly mobile freeway
Oh no, this is the road to Hell
- Chris Rea
- Chris Rea
Silence is a text easy to misread.
Sunday, April 8, 2012
The Color Purple
Purple symbolizes:
The Fool - Oneness
Death - Limitless
The Star - Inspiration
The Universe - Light
Shug:
More than anything God love admiration.
Celie: You saying God is vain?
Shug: No, not vain, just wanting to share a good thing. I think it pisses God off when you walk by the colour purple in a field and don't notice it.
Celie:
You saying it just wanna be loved like it say in the bible?
Shug: Yeah, Celie. Everything wanna be loved. Us sing and dance, and holla just wanting to be loved. Look at them trees. Notice how the trees do everything people do to get attention... except walk?
[they laugh]
Shug: Oh Miss Celie, I feels like singing!
Celie: You saying God is vain?
Shug: No, not vain, just wanting to share a good thing. I think it pisses God off when you walk by the colour purple in a field and don't notice it.
Shug: Yeah, Celie. Everything wanna be loved. Us sing and dance, and holla just wanting to be loved. Look at them trees. Notice how the trees do everything people do to get attention... except walk?
[they laugh]
Shug: Oh Miss Celie, I feels like singing!
(Memorable Quotes from the movie: The Color Purple)
Make the choice to live by higher principles and see how your perspective changes
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Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Let it be...
Dis
vroegoggend, verlede Sondag, wat ons, in twee motors, die Witbank afdraai vat oppad na Dullstroom uit Centurion. Is
weliswaar amper dertig jaar laas wat ek ‘n kerkdiens bygewoon het. My walging
in “kerk” het my darem nie verhoed om deur die mooiste kerke in Italie, Spanje,
Duitsland en Nederland te loop nie… maar selfs dit het later ook maar boring
geraak. Nee, die drie lelike susters het my afgeskrik van kerk vir baie jare…
om darem mense op grond van velkeur te klassifiseer vir ‘n plekkie innie hemel,
‘n plekkie innie kerk en dan nog met selfverhewendheid met hul boetie, die
Staat, ook evil incest te pleeg, was genoeg
om my baie lank weg te skrik.
‘n Geleentheid
het hom voorgedoen om saam ‘n paar joernaliste van die gerespekteerde Mail &
Guardian te gaan uitvind hoekom die NG nou, amper 18 jaar na apartheid, lelik
begin leegloop. My belangstelling in “Volhoubaarheid” as konsep, aan die een
kant, en ‘n diepe hoop dat die drie lelike susters ook maar die paadjie van die
ou regering sou loop, andersyds, het my geprikkel om die oggend saam te ry.
Die
vriendelike dominee se rustige stem het seker bygedra tot ‘n vreedsame gevoel
wat in my binnekant was. Sy humor toe hy die span van die M & G welkom heet
en die gemeente gerus gestel het oor die “snaakse” mense in die kerk het my
laat smaail. Half skuldig het ek my plakkies nog dieper onder die stroewe
kerkbank gedruk. Die vriendelike Hindoe kameraman, die “Girl met die goue stud
deur haar mond” en die joernalis, netjies aangetrek, suit en al, moes seker
nogal “snaaks” gelyk het.
Die
oorhoofse projektor het “God se bye” aangekondig en ek het gewonder of die
dominee nie die ^ oppie “e” vergeet het nie. My gedagtes het teruggedwaal na
ons Boksburg kerk lank gelede, waar die Bybelstories van Liewe Jesus my
verbyster het… Liewe Jesus was my hero. Hy kon magic doen. Namate ek groter
geword het het ek geleer dat ek in die hel gaan brand as ek my nie absoluut
oorgee aan Liewe Jesus en sy kwaai pappie nie.
Na ‘n kerkkamp by Winkelspruit
is ons selfs beveel om ons plate te vernietig… daai plate en musiek wat vir my
alles beteken het. Dit was die eerste groot skeur met die kerk wat in my
kindergemoed plaasgevind het. Die walging in die kerk het op universiteit
finaal oorhand gekry toe dit duidelik word dat ek beslis nie een van die
uitverkorenes sou wees nie.
Kan mens n Heilige Koei hoor val?
Later jare was dit selfs ‘n vreugde om te besef dat ek beslis ook nie een van die uitverkore groepie wou wees nie. Na ‘n lang journey het ek besef dat, as daar ‘n God sou wees, hy nie vir my “bye” geseg het nie, net maar die kerk wat “bye” geseg het. En hier sit ek nou in ‘n kerk waar dit vir my voel of God nou vir hulle “bye” geseg het….
Kan mens n Heilige Koei hoor val?
Later jare was dit selfs ‘n vreugde om te besef dat ek beslis ook nie een van die uitverkore groepie wou wees nie. Na ‘n lang journey het ek besef dat, as daar ‘n God sou wees, hy nie vir my “bye” geseg het nie, net maar die kerk wat “bye” geseg het. En hier sit ek nou in ‘n kerk waar dit vir my voel of God nou vir hulle “bye” geseg het….
Voor die
diens begin is die kindertjies uitgelei na die kinderkamer… sommige rituele was
nog steeds dieselfde… Die trae sang en die kwaliteit van die orrelspel het
verder bygedra tot n gevoel van jammerte wat oor my gemoed gespoel het. Nie gedink ek sou diep jammerte voel vir
hierdie instansie wat my soveel dae wakker gehou het oor die groot en
belangrike vrae van die lewe nie… nie gedink ek sou nie met absolute weersin
die spektakel aanskou wat vir soveel mense gelieg het... en dit steeds nog doen.
In die
teekamer na die tyd was fotos van die bazaar … buite het n vriendelike kerel my
vertel dat ek by Mohamed sigarette vir tien Rand kan koop. Sou hom later die dag weer
raakloop by die sentrum vir Epilepsie.
Selfs die
dominee het aan ‘n sigaret gesuig...
Hoenervleis
het op my arms uitgeslaan toe ons uitklim by die klein pressedwood
kerkgeboutjie innie township. Die sang was oorweldigend. God seg hello. Die Umfundisi
vertel haar storie van hoop met drie ‘elle’. Die kindergesiggies sprankel. Die
groot mense stem saam. ‘n Hele paar kom skud my hand en seg welkom. Hier is ons
nie “snaaks” nie. In die verte staan die nuwe kerkie half gebou…
And when the night is cloudy there is still a light that shines on me
Shine until tomorrow, let it be
I wake up to the sound of music, Mother Mary comes to me
Speaking words of wisdom, let it be
Let it be, let it be, let it be, yeah, let it be
There will be an answer, let it be
Let it be, let it be, let it be, yeah, let it be
Whisper words of wisdom, let it be
Shine until tomorrow, let it be
I wake up to the sound of music, Mother Mary comes to me
Speaking words of wisdom, let it be
Let it be, let it be, let it be, yeah, let it be
There will be an answer, let it be
Let it be, let it be, let it be, yeah, let it be
Whisper words of wisdom, let it be
Twee keer
kerk op een dag...
Koffie innie hand vat ons die lang pad terug na Tshwane… genoeg padkoskaffeine vir die volgende dertig jaar….
Koffie innie hand vat ons die lang pad terug na Tshwane… genoeg padkoskaffeine vir die volgende dertig jaar….
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
i Started a joke ...
Three years of focusing on one thing... getting the iStart2 movement off the ground...
Reminds me of a song I often listened to back in the seventies...
I started a joke
which started the whole world crying
But I didn't see
that the joke was on me, oh no
I started to cry
which started the whole world laughing
Oh if I'd only seen
that the joke was on me
(Beegees)
3 years in 12 and a half minutes ...
Reminds me of a song I often listened to back in the seventies...
I started a joke
which started the whole world crying
But I didn't see
that the joke was on me, oh no
I started to cry
which started the whole world laughing
Oh if I'd only seen
that the joke was on me
(Beegees)
3 years in 12 and a half minutes ...
Monday, March 5, 2012
Sound of silence
Doris: I'm unhappy.
George Valentin: So are millions of us.
George Valentin: So are millions of us.
( From the movie: The Artist)
Hello
darkness, my old friend
I've come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence
I've come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence
How many are silenced, because in order to
get to their art they would have to scream? (Ann Clark)
In restless dreams I walked alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone
'Neath the halo of a street lamp
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
That split the night
And touched the sound of silence
Soon silence will have passed into legend.
Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and
devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life,
contemplation, meditation. (Hans Jean Arp)
And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people, maybe more
People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
People writing songs that voices never share
And no one dared
Disturb the sound of silence
Real action is in silent moments. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
"Fools", said I, "You do not know
Silence like a cancer grows
Hear my words that I might teach you
Take my arms that I might reach you"
But my words, like silent raindrops fell
And echoed
In the wells of silence
Create, artist, do not talk. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon god they made
And the sign flashed out its warning
In the words that it was forming
And the sign said, "The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls"
And whispered in the sounds of silence
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Wanting to be a Red Indian ...
Wanting to be a Red Indian
- Franz Kafka
Ah,
if one were a Red Indian,
on the alert immediately,
[talking about the
white men coming]
Kicking Bird: How many?
John Dunbar: Like the stars
Kicking Bird: How many?
John Dunbar: Like the stars
and if leaning into the
wind on one’s galloping horse one went quivering over the quavering ground,
over and over again till
one stopped using the spurs,
there being no spurs,
There's a highway of stars across the heavens
A hope and a dream at the edge of the sky
- Johnny Clegg
till one threw away the
reins,
there being no reins,
and one scarcely saw the
terrain out in front as a well-mown stretch of moorland without even a horse’s
neck now or a horse’s head.
Kicking Bird: I was just thinking that of all the trails in
this life, there are some that matter most. It is the trail of a true human
being. I think you are on this trail, and it is good to see.
(From: Dances with Wolves)
May the stars carry your sadness away,
May the flowers fill your heart with beauty,
May hope forever wipe away your tears,
And, above all, may silence make you strong.
Chief Dan George
May the flowers fill your heart with beauty,
May hope forever wipe away your tears,
And, above all, may silence make you strong.
Chief Dan George
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