“I need a couple of days to wash the world off my skin,” he said. “But not you, you’re like a tree.” We hugged and he left and the air felt a little clearer. Because sometimes all you need is time spent with the right person. Of course, sometimes you…
Tell me that you too can never sleep on the last night of a holiday. Tell me that you also stay up thinking about all the things that have been and all the things that could still be. Because while it may seem like a burden, it’s surely the only…
Whoever said that long distance relationships don’t work never fell in love with the African skimmers of the Zambezi River. Perhaps it’s easier with birds, though… The skimmers arrive around the month of July, in the dry season, when little sandbanks peak out of the great river and call the migrants home. Here…
“Salad days” – definition: a Shakespearean idiomatic expression to refer to a youthful time, accompanied by the enthusiasm, idealism or innocence that one associates with a young person. A more modern use, especially in the United States, refers to a heyday, a period when somebody was at the peak of their…
“Many are the strange chances of the world,” said Mithrandir in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Silmarillion. Strange chances… those unexpected moments that make the earth feel shaky underfoot, as your body and mind try to readjust to what lies before them. In wild spaces like the banks of our Zambezi you live with this feeling, the…
Some of us don’t need to be reminded to slow down, to take it easy… some of us have procrastination and idleness down to a T. Cats, for instance. They are connoisseurs of this trait. It’s something they practice daily, along with the art of staring out of windows – an…
