In case you missed it, i am still busy reading Russell Brand, his latest book: Recovery - Freedom from our Addictions. i shared some passages from the early part of the book over here and wanted to give you a little more of a glimpse to encourage you to get your hands on it. Russell is busy working through the Twelve Step Plan to overcoming addiction and giving his own personal spin and journey to [...]
They say Truth is relative but we say that there are just some Universally Accepted Truths that can't be denied [well, not by us anyways] and so we decided to host a game to try and figure out what those were: [The Story So Far: Every Wednesday at 12 noon South African time [6am EDT] an inspired and growing number of brilliant, creative and absolutely fun people from all around the world take part in [...]
We are heading towards the halfway point of this 40 tips for white people who are genuinely asking, 'But what can I do?' series and continuing with: #ButWhatCanIDo? Tip #16 This is an extension of yesterday's tip and is going to be another difficult one for anyone not committed to the work of transformation to hear and put into practice. And I'm not sure how often I even get this right or mess it up [...]
White people asking the question, 'But what can I do?' when it comes to race and transformation. It has been super exciting to see how much dialogue and engagement has been happening around these tips. If you have not yet read the first five which started this series or the next five then click on those first and bring yourself up to speed. But this post is going to be bringing you the next five tips [...]
If you've known me for even a short time you will know that i love to produce content. Of all shapes and forms, ranging from blog posts or articles or conversations dealing with race or faith or poverty or treatment of women... To my own attempts at Jack Handey Deep Thort humour or some of my video alter egos such as Brad Fish and his series of 'Dangerous Things You Can Last Expect' videos or the [...]
Having recently had the amazing opportunity to visit my sister and some of my best friends in Durban, I am a big fan of cheap flights. So I am excited to share with you the news that Travelstart has a Birthday Sale coming your way in a week's time. Search to see if your flight routes are included so that you can get a great deal. It really is no surprise to see what the [...]
White South African friends… i have so much love for you. A number of you, when race conversations have been happening, have asked the question, “What can i do?” and as one who doesn’t have all the answers but certainly has some of the journey, i figured I can share some things that helped me to move further along in this conversation. So for the next forty days, i am hoping to share an idea a day – some simple, some more [...]
Do you have the Mind to Escape? I and a select group of my Durban friends - including my younger sister, Dawn - suspected we might have and so we decided to put Durban's Premier Escape Room experience to the test. On Monday 13th of August, six intrepid clue hunters known as Team Fish Poop [I provided the 'Fish' and have no idea which of these juveniles decided to throw in some faeces] took on The [...]
White South African friends... i have so much love for you. A number of you, when race conversations have been happening, have asked the question, "What can i do?" and as one who doesn't have all the answers but certainly has some of the journey, i figured I can share some things that helped me to move further along in this conversation. So for the next forty days, i am hoping to share an idea [...]
With Elon Musk and Richard Branson and others fighting it out to see who can get the first tourists into space it will only be a matter of time before we take the Olympics there. What events might take place in a Space Olympics competition we wondered? And you told us... [The Story So Far: Every Wednesday at 12 noon South African time [6am EDT] an inspired and growing number of brilliant, creative and absolutely [...]
