If you feel like you have spent your life waiting to start truly living, this jolt from Henry James is for you: www.themarginalian.org/2026/01/21/h...

Please join us for the launch of LET'S BE LEGENDS, the debut poetry collection by Chantal Stewart. Thursday, 22 January 2026 5.30 for 6PM @exclusivebooks.bsky.social Cavendish RSVP: exclusivebooks.co.za/pages/events...

Karen Jennings: Using AI to write could mean the extinction of poetry www.news24.com/life/books/n...

Xmas gift from son (requested)

A quiet hollow, a place you go to heal, a den you dug, Sweetheart, instead of a grave.’ ‘Instead of depression’ - Andrea Gibson

‘try calling it hibernation. Imagine the darkness is a cave in which you will be nurtured by doing absolutely nothing. Hibernating animals don't even dream. It's okay if you can't imagine spring. Sleep through the alarm of the world. Name your hopelessness.’

Mice by Rose Fyleman I think mice Are rather nice. Their tails long, Their faces small, They haven't any Chins at all. Their ears pink, Their teeth are white, They run about The house @ night. They nibble things They shouldn`t touch & no one seems To like them much But I think mice’re Nice

1000 trees planted at Ferncliffe!!

philpeople.org/profiles/sim... my lecturer at UNP decades ago #whatmakesapersonaperson

youtube.com/shorts/xBPp_... Best Song of 25

Endocrinology http://www.moma.org/collection/works/19006

BBC Radio 2 The Paul Gambaccini Collection Now Playing Rihanna Lift Me Up

(C) @privateeyenews.bsky.social

Bitter Blue 🌀 Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam youtu.be/CkWYyeSgndw?... 🎧

genius.com/Sinead-oconn... MOOD

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mC54... Must say I do admire Swift's ability to be unequivocally singular about what she wants. I can't be so sure.

The JDL Award for Poetry: honourable mention given to 'Land | Lines' by Shari Daya karavanpress.com/2025/10/02/t...

Joseph and Blaze and I at

www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/... incidents underline that standing for one’s convictions in the public sphere can carry grave risks.

This hung on my wall in Malherbe for three years - I bought the print at the Louvre when I visited with my parents.

Long past my eye-candy moment #seeclearly

Rule of thumb: when happy at midnight, do not dance around the swimming pool where there’re rusty nails #emergencyroom

dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/e... 'more intense'? I would argue 'most intense' - in this particular case

Wish it were that simple

My yoga teacher says to imagine yourself as vast as the sky in this one (back body meets front body). Chest as the hill, abdomen as the valley

w/thanks to Hedley Lewis on Facebook (this is from Bullshit Jobs by Dave Graeber)

well worth a listen www.biznews.com/interviews/w...

alignedliving.co.za Charismatic leader

Oxymoronic

Stranger than fiction …

Another ringer

Bridgevale, connecting with my son and dog (see how they run)

I kid you not