i have been pondering this series in my head for a while... Asking a WHAT IF question and seeing what responses i get from others and possibly adding some thoughts of my own. Inviting people to step into the possibility of something they perhaps don't believe in or are maybe sitting on the fence about. For a moment, assume that thing to be true. What changes? What would also be true if that thing was [...]
i just emailed someone to excuse myself from a creative planning dreaming meeting on Wednesday. i imagine it is going to be an amazing meeting. i believe i would have gotten a lot out of it and also hopefully been able to put a lot into it. But i realised on the weekend, that i don’t have the capacity for that meeting […]
So the other day i posted this post about my Grinchiness [or lack thereof] which highlighted that it is not so much Christmas that i don’t like, but how crazy over-the-top consumeristic it is, which in the face of so many people living without in the world, feels pretty horrific. […]
Christmas is coming! For different people that means different things. i like to start referring to myself as ‘The Grinch’ as Christmas approaches, but it’s not entirely true. […]
So there’s this little thing called Hashtag games [which i wrote this article about for 1Africa.tv] which i got into while i was in Americaland. Someone comes up with a clever Hashtag, something like #WaterACelebrity and then anyone in the world who is on the Twitterer plugs into their creative minds and tries to come up with clever or witty responses. So examples might be: Sea-gourney Weaver, Drip Torn or Harrison Fjord. […]
“I wish I had the balls to do that, I thought, as I enviously watched the juggler.” [Brett Andy] SAYINGS My favourite saying guy in the world is a guy called Jack Handey… if you don’t know who he is, then you probably have not hung out with me long enough. […]
In the previous post i spoke about the process of crafting this presentation, titled ‘Lost in Translation’ that i did last night for the Outliers ‘Step Up’ evening, and here is the talk itself: INTRO Anyone who knows me well, knows that my default talk setting is long [51 minute wedding speech anyone?] and so short is a challenge. But i practised my talk and timed it twice on the day and both times came [...]
My friend Heidi asked me a few weeks ago if i would be one of the presenters at an event that her organisation ‘Outliers’ was putting on called Step Up. The idea was 9 presenters each given the space for a 10 minute talk using 10 powerpoint slides with a broad theme of Education. Not having too much – in the official sense – to do with Education since i got my Primary School Teacher’s [...]
Those who know me know i’m not the biggest fan of rugby. i will watch if the Springboks are playing and get a little more excited when it is the World Cup. Throw me into a Superbru game [although a round late so desperately just trying to catch up] and it comes a little more alive and meaningful. And after a couple of rounds of games, with the quarters for the most part locked up, [...]
In August, i invited you all to Come and Xhosa with Me. After two weeks i shared a post called Xhosa and Effect, highlighting some of the things i was thinking about as we were busy with the course. […]