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A Frikkin Hashtag: #ThisIsNotAChristmasOrTrumpTag

In the build up to Christmas, some of us were getting a little tired of Christmas and Trump tags. Many of us were starting to wonder if it was possible to come up with a tag that wasn't about either. We decided to run with #ThisIsNotAChristmasOrTrumpTag which referenced both but was about anything but. [The Story So Far: Every Wednesday at 1pm South African [6am EDT] an inspired and growing number of brilliant, creative and absolutely fun people from [...]

By |2017-01-11T09:56:40+02:00January 11th, 2017|activities, AFrikkinHashtag, games & Stuff, Hashtag Game, silly things|0 Comments
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Taboo Topic: When Marriage is Hard – meet Dannean and Sean

Marriage is not always the easiest of things. i asked Dannean to share some of the struggles her and Sean encountered as they entered those waters: About Us Sean and I are in our late 30's. We have been married for 9 and a half years and been together for 12. We have three 'Magnificent Productions' in the way of two little boys (6 and 4 years old) and a gorgeous little princess (1 year [...]

By |2017-01-10T10:01:16+02:00January 10th, 2017|marriage, relationships, Taboo Topics, thorts of other people|3 Comments
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Taboo Topics: When Marriage is Hard – Intro

Marriage is a beautiful amazing incredible thing. But it is not always as easy as it looks from the outside. The purpose of Taboo Topics on this blog is to create a place where people can share stories on topics that are rarely spoken about. Marriage being tough or requiring work or needing counselling to help you get by, is definitely one of those. The hope is that if you are someone who is married, [...]

By |2017-01-12T09:04:14+02:00January 10th, 2017|marriage, relationships, Taboo Topics, things to wrestle with, thorts of other people|1 Comment
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Things to learn from being Born A Crime, part II [Notions of Right and Wrong]

What notion do you have of what is right and wrong? Continuing with some thoughts shared from Trevor Noah's book: Born a Crime [2] Notions of Right and Wrong This passage deals with Trevor speaking about one of the ways he used to make money growing up, which essentially was selling stolen stuff. At the time he didn't seem to think of it as stealing or illegal and this is what he writes in Chapter [...]

By |2017-01-09T11:11:47+02:00January 9th, 2017|things to wrestle with, thorts of other people, what i am reading|1 Comment
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The Bachelor Party: You don’t have to make him feel like a tit

i won't lie. i'm not the biggest fan of bachelor parties.  The idea of dressing a good friend up and then making them feel like a tit is beyond me. Hey friend, you are about to have one of the most important celebrations of your life and start a whole new way of living as a married man with the woman you have chosen to be with... let's celebrate that by embarrassing you, making you [...]

By |2017-01-17T17:33:58+02:00January 9th, 2017|activities, friends and enemas|1 Comment
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Things to learn from being Born A Crime, part I [Fish]

Yesterday i shared a bit of a book review of Trevor Noah's new book, 'Born a Crime'. i would like to share a few of the excerpts from that book [which i recommend you get hold of] which jumped out at me: [1] Sometimes you have to start with a fish This one goes completely against my way of thinking, but made a lot of sense and so caused me to pause and rethink this [...]

By |2017-01-09T11:17:59+02:00January 6th, 2017|South Africa, thorts of other people, what i am reading|1 Comment
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How do we harness the Christmas/New Year’s Shalom?

Shalom means completeness, wholeness, health, peace, welfare, safety soundness, tranquility, prosperity, perfectness, fullness, rest, harmony, the absence of agitation or discord. Shalom comes from the root verb shalom meaning to be complete, perfect and full. [Strong's Concordance] i was thinking about this on our recent camping trip in the Cederberg. How is it that everyone is peaceful and loving and kind on Christmas Day... and then again on New Year's Eve? And then they're not...? [...]

By |2017-01-05T13:52:10+02:00January 5th, 2017|inspire-ations, South Africa, things to wrestle with|0 Comments
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Book Review: Born a Crime – Trevor Noah

i just finished reading 'Born a Crime' by Trevor Noah. Aaand i'm in two minds... there is something i can't quite put my finger on - whether the book feels lazy or rushed or perhaps ghost written from some audio tapes Trevor made... but it feels like something of him is missing. It certainly is not meant as a comedy book - although there are some good laughs [and many of those i got by [...]

By |2017-01-06T12:28:09+02:00January 5th, 2017|South Africa, thorts of other people, what i am reading|7 Comments
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A Frikkin Hashtag: #TellACelebWhyYouLikeThem

If you haven't watched Noel Fielding as the Moon in the hit UK series 'The Mighty Boosh' then you may not have lived. We all have a celeb or two that has a skill or gift or general weirdness that we all appreciate from time to time. So we decided to play a game to find out who your person is and why... [The Story So Far: Every Wednesday at 1pm South African [6am EDT] an inspired [...]

By |2017-01-04T11:37:32+02:00January 4th, 2017|AFrikkinHashtag, fun, games & Stuff, Hashtag Game, silly things|0 Comments
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My word for 2017: Interdependence

Interdependence: The dependence of two or more people or things on each other [Oxford English Dictionary] i have just returned from an incredible few days camping at the Cederberg with an assortment of pretty amazing people. Much fun and games and dam building [yup, we literally built a little dam and it made the one pool rise about a meter - impressive stuff] and time and reflection and food and words and Extreme Bocce Ball matches [...]

By |2017-01-03T20:45:29+02:00January 3rd, 2017|activities, inspire-ations, people, positive ideas for change|0 Comments
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