X-mas tree of life...

 

my tree of knowledge (i found the seedling growing infront of the library)... 

this afternoon is unity’s wedding in stellenbosch. it’s beautiful out in the winelands on a small estate with few invited guests. her mother mrs. gordon was my standard 4 teacher & her colleagues my primary school teachers mrs. daniels (who stressed the importance of reading); mrs. meyer (my std. 1 teacher who’s always asking about my art) - they behave as softly naughty as a gang of adolescent schoolgirls; mrs. schmidt & her daughter, fiona; mr. leukes (my std. 5 teacher, who’s always swagger & debonair) is the m.c. tanya king, who’s dance partner i was back in 1989 for her debutante ball drags me to the dance floor for a waltz. lawrianne catches the bouquet & i catch the garter (i guess now i’m a knight of the garter).

home recording with siphelo a.k.a. “lil sip”.

year end party for talk & tea. carol, her young author nephew, ky & his mother, doreen with carol hugo, old school teacher, alex basson & marlon (both mountain men) give talks on reading & culture.
Friends Of Strand-South Library: TNT 2010 End of year party: "The weekly Talk & Tea ladies gathered at the library with invited guests, speakers and public to celebrate their holiday closing. Carol ..."...

my mother & eye watch the final episode of nip/tuck together.

my grandmother’s funeral service.

her body is wheeled into our lounge & my mother, me & sha (my grandmother’s great-grandchild by my estranged cousin, natasha) stand to meet the mourners by the open casket.

family from far out of town. my grandmother grew up in williston. meagan & johan (my aunt “nana” ’s whom she raised) come out from athlone. dion & carol also come.

both reverend arendse & my cousin, alvano thank me for taking care of her in her final days. i ride in the hearse. the driver is a retired undertaker & very talkative.

it’s very windy. the clay ground is difficult for the grave diggers to work with. she’s laid to rest in a family plot close to her son, johannes. the people return to our house for tea & lunch. my mother & aunts lorraine & yvonne run the kitchen.

all the children hang out in her old room because that’s where the cake is held. ‘superman returns’ on tv. we’re all tired after the family leaves.

my mother & I drive around organising for tomorrow’s funeral. we drop by bourne & young undertakers in elsies river with my grandmother’s ancient, faithfully paid-up membership books. the 2 ladies are very friendly. this evening all the aunts are gathered to organise who is to make what food for tomorrow. ‘batman begins’ & ‘constantine’ on tv. uncle errol asks to borrow our oven to bake a chocolate cake for tomorrow’s reception. one cake burns on top & the whole house smells like chocolate.

memorial service for my passed grandmother @ our house led by mr sinden, the former librarian’s husband.

treat the dogs with anti-flea & -lice dip. my mother & i visit mrs koopman & uncle kosie to arrange for flowers for the funeral service coming saturday.

my cousin dillon, yvonne & abdullah’s son’s matric ball this evening. the matriculants in his street parade up & down the road dressed up. my family, almost all the cousins & aunts are gathered @ yvonne’s.

the household goes through my grandmother's belongings to sort who keeps what & whatever to give away to whom. my mother decides that most of the clothes will go to the poorer family in williston. i find my high school tie in her closet.

my ouma is vanoggend oorlede. my ma sê my vroegoggend nadat sy die oproep van HH hospitaal gekry het. ek’s deur die slaap en dink sy lag soos gewoonlik vroegoggend by my kamerdeur oor iets wat die kat gedoen het, dan kom ek agter deur die slaperigheid dat sy snik.

my ma, godfrey & ek sit vir ure by haar lyk in die saal voordat die begrafnis ondernemer kom. my sister & haar kêrel slaap by die huis – ons kon hulle nie wakker kry nie na hulle heelnag partytjie: gister was ricardo se verjaarsdag. die verkeer oppad na die hospital hou almal op vanwee ‘n musiekkonsert op ‘n naby plaas. die mense rondom sê sy het rustig gegaan. sy lyk rustig. dit lyk asof sy nog asemhaal. ‘n jong xhosa kamerhelp – dieselfde een vir wie my ma by ons laaste besoek vir koffie gevra het - gee vir ons koffie.

dis vreemd maar my ouma het altyd die laaste paar jaar gekla dat die huis vol stof is, al was dit silwerskoon. die laaste paar dae is daar stof oor alles van al die gebouery.

namiddag besoek yvonne; let (my ma se niggie en ouma se naam genoot - aletta - en peetkind); haar dogter, carmen; natasha; melanie; alvano & eunett. godfrey bedien almal soos in ‘n vyfster hotel.

"Thank You" sms reply to sean...

"My condolences,im sori dude.u kp well now." sms, sean...

"Ek het Marlin se tweeling vandag gesien. Hulle is te oulik. Ann" sms...

she's groggy, near comatose when my mother & ricardo from work & i visit @ hh hospital in the evening...

my grandmother's compadres from the strandcare senior citizen's group visit her in the morning. they're very spirited & wish her well. just her neice, beth is morbid & says she'll pass the word along that my gran is at her last days. 

she's very ill today after vomiting black bile all night, since yesterday afternoon. my mother kept guard over her, sleeping in her room. my mother phones me to take her to doctor johnson around the corner. he's gracious enough to give us half his consultation fee back to get her to hospital immediately per taxi. his recaptionist is afton alexander who also won art certificates along with me in primary school. our neighbour latifah carts me & my grandmother to hottentots-holland hospital. they'll keep her overnight & take her to tygerberg hospital for her tests scheduled for tomorrow.  my mother rushes after work to hospital..

pastor arendse comes to our house to give communion to my grandmother... my sister is off work & we sit in for the prayers. my gran reminds me to give her my mother's aloe juice, which taste she complained about last week.

the tv channel says: "everythings always better on e"; julianne moore in "NEXT: NEXT"...

my mother escorts me & my grandmother to be submitted to tygerberg hospital. we only had to drop her off, or so we thought. she needs more x-rays taken & more tests scheduled for next month. we spend the whole day waiting, running down corridors & between floors & more waiting. 
we go home & buy cheesecake & pomegranate juice to celebrate cake day. in our driveway, uncle errol comes across the road to help her out of the car (i stupidly forget to remove the seatbelt, so she's stuck).
to sleep with migraine ...

my mother buys pomegranate juice for the house... 

ani difranco sings "i am not a pretty girl" on the nip/tuck soundtrack. i've loved her since once and only seeing her on sessions at west 54 a decade ago on tv...

my mother drops my grandmother & me off @ hottentots-holland hospital to have her replacement x-rays of her dislocated shoulder bone. the hospital lost the previous set. the young radiologist is disconcerted about her cell phone provider overcharging for something but she comments i take good acre of my grandmother - i'm not so sure because i'm upset with my generally foul-tempered gran for acting so lame & weak around other people. uncle errol is friendly enough to fetch us for home... 

... this evening godfrey sleeps in our lounge. he's sms'ed & talked to my mother & me all-day & he says he has no where else to turn to...

... quantum cosmology; wavelengths etc. etc. ...

i fetch her admission letter to the bigger hospital for her arm op. her x-rays are lost so we'll have to taxi later in the week to have new photos done. 

bargain art hunting/collecting: madonna's 'the power of good-bye' single & toni braxton's 'the heat'...

my older cousin lorraine, her daughter & my gay wed, cousin alvano visit my ill grandmother this afternoon... 

this evening lorraine's sister yvonne,my mother's old friend aunt susan beukes, miss wilma oliphant (my primary school secretary) & their friend, all of them from the church elders visit her & pray... 

'minority report' is my fave tom cruise vehicle... i think maybe the kitten should also be named tom cruise (the previous tomcat namesake no longer visits our yard)... 

thinking of sandra tru-out the movie with the theme of a lost child.

i realise the kitten is a tom when he preens himself early morning & i notice two balls i hadn't seen before... 

my family - my mother, sister, ricardo (my brother-in-law to-be) & i - sit all morning in the hospital hallway waiting for the doctor to tell us what is to happen to my grandmother's broken arm. we have to take my grandmother home because there's not enough beds. she seems much better, recuperated...

friday morning a big tip truck drops off a sand load in our driveway. our gardener, david is meant to come wheelbarrow the load into the backyard. by late afternoon it's obvious david had forgotten. before sunset i start carting the load. ricardo helps me after he gets off from work. my hands are callused.

... i've been meaning to get these albums for years & i finally find them in a discount bin @ a 2nd hand store... "without love"; "st. teresa": both album openers piqued my interest back when they were radio singles ...

"ID NO (X) NOG REFENCE LESLEY BAADJIES LB BUILDERS CELL (X) DANKIE ELDRICK STONE" sms for cv...

i escort my grandmother to the hospital to check up on her arm that’s taking so long to heal after her fall: the day staff are a lot more helpful than the night staff with our last visit.they x-ray & see that her shoulder is dislocated. my mother & i are both shocked. she has to stay behind for an op.

to the library after a week long absence. tai chi class, maia talks with us about scheduling & practical application of inner & martial arts. some newcomers attend. stephanie comes to see me about help with a business plan. both carols (van der heever & hugo) & giselle drop by.

my mother skips visting dion tonight to visit her mother in hospital. she says she already looks better.

at home tending grandmother & builders moving the kitchen sink. we postpone our visit to the hospital for her check up to tomorrow.

"Hello GRAHAM. Won't be attending 2nite. Good luck with the good work. Marcellino" sms sent...

"got lift 2 hosp. don't tell ladies yet" sms to carol...

"Will send Ann a message. Will not be able to go. Too much to do still. Keep well. C u soon." sms, carol...

"How r u getting to hospital? Are the ladies still going to lib? Do they know neither of us will b there?" sms, carol...

i run into town to buy ‘0-8’. the trains are delayed because of cable theft. on green market sq. i run into cheap, mint condition copies of 'the matrix' dvd & alanis' 'so-called chaos'. at the music stall i also make an interesting new friend, david: the connection seems narcissustic though because we both apparently like exactly the same music & philosophies.  
my sister’s boyfriend, ricardo is moving in with us temporarily because of his family feuding back home.

"Fsm meeting tomorrowe at 6PM! On 2nd floor. .. . . Grahan :-)" sms...

"Fsm meeting... tuesday 16 november (tomorrow)... 2nd Floor 37 strand street. pls RSVP. GRAHAM ...:-)" sms...

"evening. won't make 2morrow's TNT. taking ouma 2 hospital. don't worry, just check up. c u soon." sms to carol...

"Im home," sms, sean...

"Im home" sms, sean...

"Vendatta on 3!" sms to sean...

i go grocery shopping & sent to buy haircare products for my mother, when & buy opium incence because of an opium den's romance but i realize that our contemporary equivalent for an opium den woul be a 'tik-huis' (afrikaans: "meth house")...
sean visits in the afternoon. we talk about surprisingly deep issues in our lives & families (he denigrates his verbal expressive abilities but he is a visual artist by nature) & sandra calls after ages. finally ‘v for vendetta’ is on public tv tonight.

my younger gay cousin alvano’s husband, sean rides the same train as me to town, to his job. we chat. he’s a very proper roman-catholic guy. i buy ‘8-80’. i also buy a baked cheese cake @ my mother’s suggestion & a blueberry cheesecake for me & carol to share. tonight i visit the newly opened pnp store in the new strand mall next to the recently built shoprite. extra-long queue circles around the aisles. meet some young library patrons in the express queue.

"please call me" sms, mother...

"Ek is by shop hoop jy kom help sny wil ni te laathuistoe kom nie thanx jou ma" sms, mother...

carol buys me a jar of coffee as a gift for what she considers taking good care of my grandmother (!). i think the kitten’s name will be minerva because she’s her daddy’s brain-child & always chewing my locks, falling asleep – she’s obsessed with medusa, minerva's shield.

"Sterkte more. Die inligting sal uit jou stroom, baie meer as die trane wat ons nie stort oor ons oningeligde ekse. Veels geluk." sms to carol...

"Dankie!!! Miskien sien ek jou more. Skryf tot 13h30. Sit nou nog met boeke. Jy is n engel om Ouma so mooi op te pas. Ek moet jou eendag bederf. 1/2 cup coffe & 1/2 slice cake!" sms, carol...

"please call me" my mother, from her shoppe...

today is a good day... 

tai chi; reading; pets; sci-fi: 'heroes' ... dion visits showing off his new bakkie. 
falling asleep the kitten gives my biceps a tongue bath.

@ the weekly talk&tea meet aunts mary, rosie, katie & me practice the literacy card game carol devised last week. my first spoon of white sugar in a month... 

my mother allows my younger sister & her boyfriend, ricardo to drive her car (go figure!)... 

i thought the kitten had escaped thru an open door or window but i find her huddled in a corner in the master bedroom this afternoon. she licks my hand when i feed her..

there's a lump in my throat; my tears well up when i re-listen janet's 'rhythm nation' & remember the 2 decades in between hearing it the 1st time, now & all the mis-spent & lost opportunities. 
"state of the world" has secretly inspired any charitable act of brotherly love i've ever committed... 

my mother & dion are off to town leaving me granny-sitting. 
'nip/tuck' is on again sadean & cross-generational, anti-ageist sexiness... 
... i'm rich: i fall asleep on a studio couch (to bjork & realworld records); there's a usb'ed electric guitar standing in the corner; i have a new feline friend who likes my fur bed cover & a growing pot plant...

"hoe gaan dit, SAN?" sms to sandra...

there's a new visitor in our yard: a wild kitten who bites me aggressively... 

i finally listen to verity's album  i'd bought last month - impressed by the hindi/reggae fusion in 1 track... 
i fetch the kitten from next door where i'd returned it to this morning, as per our arrangement. zahier, the neighbourhood self-taught tv repair guy helps me round her up when she flees into the neighbours' car engine & around isha (nur's  ex-wife)'s house... 

'live free or die hard' on tv.

... hyperspace is amazing! 

...

to town, greenmarket sq. to buy 2 janet albums i'd seen the day before yesterday... 

'state of the world' was 1 of the 1st songs i ever recorded from the radio on a mix tape in 1989 (social consciousness & sexiness = aspirational)... 

'the hot chick' & 'deuce bigelow, male gigolo'.on tv

"Hi. Waar's jy? Was vanoggend by bib. Het Ouma se pille. Sal op 'n dag dit by jou kry. Sukkel om te studeer. Kontak jou sodra ek blaaskans het. Goedgaan." sms from carol...

"pleasure. busy man. coffee would be nice. rest well." sms to chris.

"Hi Marcellino, thx for the message and number. Sorry I missed you. Hope we can have coffe next time. Chris" sms.

... i go into town to research rosie's family history @ the archive.  not very revealing - the librarian suggests i approach dept. of home affairs. visit lucy on my way & get to briefly see khadija (fresh from yoga) who's crashing @ her place. we see an amplified thumb-piano player in the co. gardens by the slave lodge.
lucy's in a hurry to a business meeting so i visit chris nearby who's also busy with a meeting.

on my way to the station i run into an album i've been looking for, for ages: import bargain going for a song...
finally return my over due books to triangle library: javin & denver are sexily entertaining; i get to massage denver's sore arm from his new gym routine & buff new physique. 

back home i check in by the library before home-time & maureen , lorraine & i discover a hemp plant growing on the stoep... i take it home.

i learn about jelqing (penis-milking) online... i stereotype muslim as conservative but persia did inspire romance because of flourishing sexual culture.

the dogs keep me up barking all night.. my ill grandmother says i neglected her calls in the early morning... 

carol bring juice to the talk & tea meetng and marlon (who surprises us with his haircut) allows everyone to sample the pomegranate juice she brings especially for him considering the nazorite vow. he tells us about some interesting genealogical findings... .

...

gale winds sweeping outside all night... 
at the library, lorraine talks about her family history & adopted (white) mother raised muslim... 

carol (who's on study leave) & giselle, her tenant visit in the evening, to return the weed-eater & update.
dion visits with my mother coming in from town. they both leave for his place to overnite, after my mother & i finish making a dress order...

the dogs are off to the s.p.c.a. to be vaccinated against rabies... 

carol lends our weed-eater for stephan who wants to clean up their yard. 

'frankenstein' on tv late-nite. my grandmother is ill...

"Hi! sey to phillid a to call me. plz" sms, dion...

new hairdresser @ my mother's salon to replace thieving, mellisa... 
i skip on attending the org function but i also don't feel like going to amber's 21st birthday party across the road (i want to be left alone - not particularly sad). the music is booming hits (i hear madonna) pleasantly...  

packing away the grocery shopping i notice that suddenly most of pick 'n pay's products have thinner or less wrapping...

'the skeleton key' & 'dominion', the exorcist prequel on late nite tv. 

black friday (today would be godfrey & mine's 6th anniversary) ... 

...reading about edward carpenter & the "the education of desire"... 

clinton visits me. my mother overnites @ dion's in town. clinton's university peers are fascinated with egyptian divinities. he's now baptised as anubis (must all my males have death cult hang-ups?). he spends the night.

"ACT 6" sms to sa's got talent (voting for my primary school buddy, madeleine engelbrecht, now singing sensation "maddy")...

"ACT 5" voting on sa's got talent for the socialist ("ubuntu" conscious) dance group tembisa revolution...

keys cut for the library... double booking (an org event & an extended family function @ the same time) ...

i escort carol in the afternoon taking stephan to write  an exam (miss tai chi). 

we gallivant, hunting down (closed) kauai's & drop by sahra (next to soundandmotion studios) where an engaging guide, cecilene shows us around after hours...

"Hi. Half available @ the moment. Evelyn replacing @ month end. Her son was in accident. Ok Cu" sms from carol...

"Goeiemore. 1 bottel Stemtech, asseblief?" sms, carol...

... thee muse i wake up to: 

"Wake up

Ur beautiful, loved and blessed

Feel me? (I think I do)



When U found me I was just a piece of clay

I was 4mless, U gave me a new name

With the breath of life I now live abundantly

All I needed was the potter's hand

And the blood on Calvary (that's right)


But 2 much power (tell it)

Can can sometimes turn 2 shame
2 much desire
Sometimes makes U feel the same (come on)
But 4giveness is how U win the game
I begged 4 truth, now I know the truth
And that is when U came and said I was...


Beautiful, loved and blessed
I'm better than the day b4
Cause U made me confess that I am...
Beautiful, loved and blessed
When U're free U're really free indeed
All U gotta do is just plant the seed


A constant battle 2 stay ahead of the game

Is anybody famous when everybody wants fame?

Always trying 2 break U down

Thinkin' that'll raise 'em up

I just wanna b happy

Come take this bitter cup from me



If I were ever 2 write my life story

I could truly say through all the fame and glory

I was just a piece of clay in need of the potter's hand

Cause when U whispered in my ear

The words I so now understand, oh..." prince & tamar 'beautiful, loved and blessed'... 

i walk past a whirling dervish in the sand returning from the bank on an errand; walking along the beach... 
window cleaners are mountaineering alongside a high-rise being cleaned
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very interesting chat @ our weekly "talk & tea": ann talks about meeting a man who cycled around africa  sister katie elaborates on forgiveness...

... sex dream about 2 unrelated boys ("SCRUTINIZE!")... 
@ the llibrary we talk about discrimination & stereotyping around hazel's son involved in a high-school sex scandal with home-made (school-made) porn... 

lesbianism & synesthesia on 'heroes'...

"the event on the 30th will be at the strand tower hotel Cnr strand and loop str, 2minute walk from the org. Regards, ellen" sms, ellen (scientologist)...

my in-law to-be, ricardo is visiting my sister, aleasha & he braais fish very nicely. she failed her drivers test today. 'van helsing' & 'queen of the damned' on tv.

"Lol!halo my engel!ganit mt jo?ek wiet glati wavo ek wagi ma ek wag ma!mk...klompies luv u 2!mwah" sms from sandra...

"eye laugh jew! whatchu w8ing, whatchu w8ing, whatchu w8ing 4? ;P" sms to sandra...

fetch my grandmother's meds from the state hospital in the morning run into a bargain ("pearl of great price") @ a 2nd hand store...  

full moon... stood up... 'the time machine' & 'strange days' on tv again...

spend the day with ann on youtube. (nicole kidman asks to be my friend on myspace- it's obviously her press agent  or pr team but it's still fabulous). 

tonight my mother & i take my grandmother to the hottentots-holland hospital emergency room with her painfully injured arm (some of the personnel are callously unhelpful - a surly female receptionist brightens up when my mother approaches me & my waiting grandmother; unbeknownst, a male receptionist is watching 'knight rider' re-runs while patients are waiting inside). we're waiting till past midnight.  

"please call GODFREY" sms, godfrey.

my bitch is a druggie!! (i have to feed morpheus painkillers for an upset stomache)... 

... Spiral Path: Gay Contribution to Human Survival

channel surf across samuel l. jackson in 'the man'... (i've been collecting 2nd hand 'men's health' mag.'s from library bin for the last 2 weeks ...)

godfrey calls... 'the omen' re-make on tv late nite...

carol picks me up on a food run to visit. get drunk with sean - commiserating through crises of broken faith. 

... 

turned off by prince's anti-gay sentiments when i finally get to hear a pirate copy of "chocolate box"... 
my grandmother has fallen and injured herself but luckily with no bruising when my mother & i get back home later.

double rainbow develops mountainside @ sunset...

internet mu' vids @ ann's place (i discover leslie, who i'm making a website for, is related to ann)...

today i'm the only boy in maia's all-female tai chi class. she shares some life experiences with us before class...

“I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself the king of infinite space…”shakespeare's 'hamlet'... 

new season of 'heroes' begins tonight...

"aai laugh joe!" sms to sandra...

"Net n klynkie Lino om t se x lief vi jo!!!leka dag...mwah op jo bek!!!" sms, sandra...

... "and a plane flies through the air," - peter gabriel, 'secret world'. 

early moring reading in the back garden... an ant crawls across the page...

@ the talk & tea meeting we continue making ribbons while marlon gets x-questioned about entheogens & explains very eloquently about metaphysics (unadulterated scientology).... 

carol to wait on quote from handyman for water damage from her fixed geyser... to town quickly in afternoon. see caleb, bespectacled on smoke break in front old org building... 

on train ride home clique of xhosa youth vociferously debate promiscuity & pre-marital sex with religious overtones (i hear 'thixo' - God, xhosa quite often). one young woman says something impressive in english to her opponent: "everything is permissable but not everything is beneficial!". 

building studio m... 

after us working @ her boutique my mother drives off to help dion @ the club in town.

RAIN... 

'the speed of light is a universal constant': Apollo rules!

a young john travolta is 'the boy in the plastic bubble' this afternoon on cape town tv... 

'deep impact' on tv again: a black u.s.a. president & blair underwood ... i feel wistful, "happy melancholic".

... morning @ the library with carol, fatima & marlon. 

later with ann web-surfing youtube... 

bright sun shiney day!

'hitch-hiker's guide to the galaxy'; 'a clockwork orange' & channel-surfing 'get over it' (midsummer night theme) on tv again...

to town along with hazel & stephan driven by carol... 

into the org to buy ethics. talk with caleb & enrique. 

 ... 

for the first time tonight i hear my grandmother bless the back door not to open & keep us safe after i'd locked it for the night.

'the grudge' is on late nite tv - i remember how scared godfrey was of toshio the 1st time we watched it.

"Jy moet gou maak. Ek is nie Ouma nie." sms, carol (waiting for me, busy @ the org.)...

"Ek wag by die hek." sms, carol (waiting on me)...

"Running a bit late. Tel Hazel." sms, carol (taking hazel & me along to c.t.) ...

"ok." sms to carol.

"Kry my BUITE die biblioteek 9 uur." sms, carol (on our way to town)...

"skaars" sms to sandra...

helping ann online, her friends drop by. watching rare mu' videos on youtube in our conversation ann reminds me that king solomon's 'song of songs' is called "hooglied" (high/height song) in afrikaans... 

ann records tai chi class for  her youtube...

carol, ann & myself are a sowing cicrle today as we start making orange ribbons for our self-initiated reading awareness campaign. we're joined by kobus who promises to attend future meetings. marlon drops by... 

on tv tonite is part 2 of last week's crime documentary about gang culture & ritual murder: "the flower gang". it's strange to see something i've avoided all my life affirmed on tv; seeing local gangsterism cogitated about makes it seem more abstract & somehow logical (even acceptable). there's a coloured male intellectual providing psychological insight.

sexi(ng)ness(?)...

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... homoerotic medieval/renaissance jewish poetry: moshe ibn ezra & judah halevi (wow, how blatant)... 
'x-men: final stand' on tv ... 
later 'corky romano' (hilarious)... 
chess game on re-broadcast 'terminator: sarah connor chronicles'.

the dogs get dip ampules applied...

johan visits me @ the shop... 

to town to buy incense, a lizard crosses my path by the graveyard,,, 

walking back to the boutique, fine glass splinter on the tarmac look like starscape... 

'sky high' interrupted, back to work shop; later 'shaun of the dead'; we finish @ midnite (i miss the org function) & drive the 2 debutantes back to stellenbosch.

"please call me" sms, my mother @ the work-shop.

"Marcellino, is ek reg as ek dink ons altwee kan sing: I dont want ur bullshit/ I just want ur sexuality. Sal jy asb n cd skryf met dai song en al die favs wat jy altyd vir my gespeel het? Baie dankie! I just want ur poetry in motion..." sms, godfrey.

"Ek blaai nou deur my pa se album en sien n foto van jou toe ons by xe se drummies in Bellille Suid was. Onthou jy? Ek rou oor die verlies van ons samesyn." sms, godfrey.

"Is jy dan nog steeds kwaad? Jy weet kwaad, haat en onvergeeflikheid is nie goed vir ons nie.Ek hoop jy heal spoedig.Ek vat dit dag vir dag.Ek weet ook dis nie goed dat ek jou kontak nie,maar wat anders an ek doen?Ek kon nog en sal ook nooit my gevoelens wegsteek nie.U the 1 that got away:-)Mooi dag!" sms, godfrey.

"5 seconds to self-destruct...5;4;3;2; !!" sms to matt...

"Awesome! See u there!" sms, matt org course room supe.

"Hi! reminding u that u're coming to Mission Impossible 3.5 Event 2m 6sharp@Radison on Beach road by the Waterfront. Acknowledge this sms so I know u got it." sms, matt (scientology org. course room supervisor).

... my bedding this morning is full of static electricity (sparks flying!)...

"As jy my ooit eendag nodig het vir ENIGIETS, moet asb nie huiwer om my te kontak nie. Al soek jy net n oor om te luister. Sagte drome..." sms, godfrey.

spring cleaning bedding... everything is out on the line, in the sunshine! ... 

i realised last week that the washing line is actually a production line. or a pre-production line, prepping every1 in the household before we face a social day ... 

godfrey & sandra, with baby, zoe drop in to pick up the cat's tray. 

... my mother buys the dogs humungous ostrich bones as a treat ...

run into aunt dinah & her granddaughter & grandson on my way to the library...

visit CoS to buy 'creation of human ability'; get to see ellen & angela... 

black-heart 'lolita' shades. 

visit triangle library. chat with denver & javin...

tai chi @ the library tutored by maia with ann & her daughter & son and hazel. i'm partnered with young bradley ... 

"strange days" on tv - i'd forgotten it was one of my fave movies 1ce. angela bassett is cool for sci-fi. especially with peter gabriel & deep forest on the soundtrack.