Random thoughts of a happy brain damaged ex actress… Me!
I am going to speak about something that is incredibly precious to me. Music! What makes this so exciting is that the music involved is an opera. An opera about my Mother and me! Let me tell you how it all came about. Rexleigh Bunyard is a musician-composer and music teacher. Out of
“But perhaps the most important lesson I learned is that there are no walls between humans and the elephants except those that we put up ourselves, and that until we allow not only elephants, but all living creatures their place in the sun, we can never be whole ourselves.” Lawrence Anthony, The Elephant Whisperer As
Recently I have been to stay with my cousin, Judith Saulez and family in Durban. It was great to be able to spend some quality time with them. Their three daughters go to Durban Girls College. When I was twelve I went there for two years. I was a weekly boarder and I remember those
(Dulce et Decorum est Pro patria mori) On the evening that B and I had planned to spend with Janet Suzman in London, she told us that unfortunately she would be out as she was performing in a concert. I pricked up my ears. “Concert? Would you mind if we came too?” Two tickets were
“Believe in yourself, not only in swimming, but in life itself” Debbie Meyer I would never have imagined how important technology, computing, the internet and Social Media would become in my life. When Mum and Dad gave me my first computer all those years ago, I believed it was just a ruse to get me
TICK…TOCK…TICK…TOCK…TICK… You can’t speed up or slow down time. It just carries moving regardless, relentlessly pressing on…and on…and on… TICK…TOCK…TICK…TOCK…TICK… I have just spent a blissful night with the beautiful Cassie Bassett nee Holliday and her lovely family. I recall performing in a show with Cassie’s Mum, Shelagh Holliday. One Sunday the cast was
Because of my accident, I have only 40% eyesight and no depth of field awareness so I am unable to drive. I walk everywhere. To my unutterable delight, my apartment is directly behind a Spar supermarket. It is a really great shop. It’s always clean and the shop assistants are friendly with ready smiles.
“There was a magic about the sea. People were drawn to it. People wanted to love by it, swim in it, play in it, look at it. It was a living thing that was as unpredictable as a great stage actor: it could be calm and welcoming, opening its arms to embrace it’s audience one
Happy Birthday, my wonderful, blessed Mums! When the Good Lord was creating mothers, He was into His sixth day of “overtime” when the angel appeared and said. “You’re doing a lot of fiddling around on this one.” And God said, “Have you read the specs on this order?” She has to be completely washable, but
“For a moment at least, be a smile on someone else’s face.” ― Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun Our gardener, George, stood back, looking at the tree he had just finished pruning. He shook his shoulders and raised his face up to the sky. He let
