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Random Musings!

Karoo Wilderness

By Gaynor Young on 28/11/2014 (updated 07/07/2026)

In the Little Karoo, while sitting in the Lazy Lizard Coffee Shop, on the back of the menu, I found this poem. It rather delighted me. I want to share…

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Filed under: Random Musings!Tagged: Karoo, Lazy Lizard Coffee Shop, Little Karoo, pictures, wilderness12 Comments
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A Fracking Disaster!

By Gaynor Young on 21/11/2014 (updated 07/07/2026)

“He remembers what the spiritual visionary, Wallace Black Elk, a Lakota said – man’s scratching of the earth causes diseases like cancer. He meant the mining and drilling for coal,…

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Filed under: Random Musings!Tagged: disaster, fracking, Karoo4 Comments
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“Little boxes, little boxes…”

By Gaynor Young on 14/11/2014 (updated 07/07/2026)

A five year old boy sitting on a step, hugging a pair of new shoes. The look of sheer joy and enthralled delight on his face is breathtaking. This photograph…

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Filed under: Random Musings!Tagged: joy of giving, Santa's Shoebox5 Comments
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“Less is More!”

By Gaynor Young on 07/11/2014 (updated 07/07/2026)

I stared up at the massive painting in the kitchen. It was of a hyena. But this hyena was different. It seemed to have an odd kind of vulnerability to…

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Filed under: Children, Family & Friends, Music & Entertainment, Random Musings!Tagged: artist, contemporary, paintings, Peter Pharoah13 Comments
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21st Century Unicorn!

By Gaynor Young on 31/10/2014 (updated 07/07/2026)

“Rhinos have an ancient, eternal beauty. With their massive bodies, clad in thick folds of prehistoric body armour topped by a magnificent scimitar horn, they fascinate like few other creatures…………

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Filed under: Random Musings!Tagged: extinction, horn, image, poaching, rhinoceros3 Comments
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Life Saver!

By Gaynor Young on 24/10/2014 (updated 07/07/2026)

Wouldn’t you like to be a life saver? I would and I am hoping that I can! Let me tell you what I’m speaking about….. A couple of weeks ago,…

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Filed under: Random Musings!Tagged: live saver, organ donors8 Comments
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100!

By Gaynor Young on 26/09/2014 (updated 07/07/2026)

This is my one hundredth blog! I can’t believe it! My friend, ‘B’, had the idea of me creating this blog. “You have lots of writing which is just clogging…

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Filed under: Random Musings!Tagged: 100, blog, post17 Comments
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“Just chew your nails!”

By Gaynor Young on 12/09/2014 (updated 07/07/2026)

“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…

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Filed under: Children, Family & Friends, Inspirational Thoughts, Random Musings!Tagged: elephants, rhino, thula thula, video2 Comments
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Shocking!

By Gaynor Young on 05/09/2014 (updated 07/07/2026)

* *** “The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.” Mahatma Gandhi *** * I am just appalled by…

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Filed under: Random Musings!Tagged: animal, cruelty, Knysna Elephant Park14 Comments
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The Goddess of Rainbows!

By Gaynor Young on 29/08/2014 (updated 07/07/2026)

“The answer is that we are not helpless in the face of our first impressions. They may bubble up from the unconscious – from behind a locked door inside of…

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Filed under: Inspirational Thoughts, Random Musings!Tagged: flowers, garden, impressions, little, misleading, old woman, surprise6 Comments

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