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Marvin Gaye (and my Dad) taught me a lesson or two
We were riding along with the Pater Familias one evening. By we, I mean the Big Sis and I. Anyways, we were riding along with Dad in a forest green Camry. (The Camry places the time of this story in the late 1900s. The colour thereof has no specific relevance for this narrative.) Back in…
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Who’s Fooling Who?
The year was 1993. The end of March brought the winter’s sluggish end. Temperatures were on the rise after the bitter cold and snow. (Ok, North Carolina didn’t actually see much snow, but it was more than I, Child of the South African Soil, had thus far seen in my entire life.) I had finally…
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Hope Deferred: A Navillera sermon
Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life. Proverbs 13:12 Navillera is a 2021 drama starring Park In-Hwang and Song Kang. Fret not! It isn’t your regular, stereotypical K-romance with requisite pretty faces gazing at each other longingly for 5 minutes every episode (Long Lingering Looks™). Rather, it…
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Voices.
Kindly allow me to indulge my inner geek for a moment. Embryologically, the human ear[i] begins to be formed at around 22 days post-conception. As just a thickening on the ectoderm. Rudimentary, really. Incidentally, the eyes start to form around the same time. We can hear from around 18 weeks gestation, according to those in…
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Give Me Hope, Jo’anna
I had just turned 9. American news stations were running stories about how our Mzansi (South Africa to them) was preparing for the elections, with the requisite alarmist field reports for a world awaiting peri-election blood-shed. South Africa was BIG news. I didn’t know how big, until news reports came knocking at the door of…
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