Tag: Memories
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How the power of music moves your heart and moulds your brain
Music is emotion in motion, helping us get in tune with ourselves.
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My wild and groovy career as a wizard of the wedding dancefloor
Memories are made of melodies, and they don’t come sweeter or louder than the wedding DJ’s carefully chosen platters.
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Darling Clementine, these are the songs I remember you by
Love lives on in the songs shared with a beloved sister.
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The day I discovered the life-secrets of the naughty girl who grew up to be my gran
Every family has its stories to tell, of quirky characters who lived life to the full and left a legacy of love, laughter, and lessons for future generations to follow
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The things I learned about love, life, & padkos on Ouma’s family camping trips
To this day, when I see a hard-boiled egg or cheese on cream crackers, I’m taken right back to the times me and my cousins were piled in the back of a station wagon, passing the padkos Tupperware around and bouncing out of our skin in anticipation of our destination.
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When love is like the falling rain
Our reality now is living with a bath no longer used for bathing, but storage for grey water. It’s plastic containers scattered all over the garden to catch the little rain that falls, a bucket in the shower, and a container in every sink in the house.
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If You Could Watch Any Game of Rugby live, What Would it Be?
From a South African perspective, that 1995 World Cup between South Africa and New Zealand at Ellis Park will be a popular answer. From the Boeing flyover to the raising of the trophy, I don’t think it would have been possible to maintain a resting heartbeat on that day.
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Food is a Time Machine That Whisks Us Back to Our Childhood
The aroma of ghee or butter melting on a hot pan tends to take me to this place – my mother’s kitchen in Pietermaritzburg, on the days we didn’t have bread in the house when she’d make a stack of rotis, or in my father’s words: “hand-made bread”.
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A Change Artist Who Loves to Change the Skin You’re In
“It becomes a part of you. You get through the tattoo and it’s almost like you’ve taken your first step towards your goal. Whether it’s getting over a breakup, quitting drinking, moving to a different country or tackling grief, the tattoo is a promise that it’s going to be okay.”