'Tis the season to be jolly

Christmas has really snuck up on me this year, and now it's suddenly Christmas Eve. (YAY) So, without a long, rambling post about commercialism and blah blah blah, I'd just like to remind you all that this isn't just a time for presents and Christmas Trees and fat old men in red outfits. It's a day that commerates that Jesus was sent to the earth for us, as a humble little baby born in a stable. This is something that I'm truly grateful for, because I believe (and will always believe) that this is truth, not just some Christmas story.

So with that, I wish you all a truly blessed Christmas.

Eat much, laugh much, give much and love much.

It's raining, it's pouring

It's been raining ridiculous amounts recently, and as Durbanites are pretty much solar powered, many locals are feeling rather blue. So I thought I'd help out by giving some fun things to do while it's cold and wet outside.

you have a legit excuse to not budge from your bed the whole day. unlimtted tea/coffee/hot chocolate drinking without overheating. staying in your warm and fluffy pjs. movie nights. curling up with a good book. splashing in the rain (highly recommended). ultimate "chilled vibes" in true Durban fashion.

G'bye Movember!

As Movember draws to a close for another year, I'll leave you with a corny but unavoidable joke...

I have a question I moustache you, but I'll shave it for later.

GIGGLES.

Next stop: Christmas!

Swop Shop

Often, living in such a privileged neighbourhood, we don't realise what others have to try to survive.
Until something like this comes along and forces us to not to simply look, but to see.

Psalm 113:7 - He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap;

So while I was in Cape Town last month, my friend Jono introduced me to this absolutely incredible initiative called Recycle Swop Shop Cape Town. What is does, is after setting up in a community called DuNoon, Swop Shop allows the people of DuNoon to exchange recyclable goods (rubbish) for tokens that allow them to get things like clothes, toiletries, or food.

How flipping brilliant?!

Not only is it helping out a place that desperately needs it, it encourages reclycling too. (Al Gore would be so proud) By cleaning, a sense of pride is instilled in the community.

"Anyone who has struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor. "

I was so inspired after I found out about this; the sacrifice and compassion of people is mind-blowing.

Here's their website - do yourself a favour and watch the video too.

http://www.beyonded.org/projects/swopshop/

It's time to start living for more than just ourselves.



Jono.

                                     

Movember

Well, well well. It's that time of the year again Ladies and Gents. Men (and hopefully not too many women) everywhere are breaking out their 'taches for the month and things are about get hairy.

I'm sorry. That pun was inevitable.

HAPPY MOVEMBER EVERYONE!

i carry your heart with me

By EE Cummings.

 

i carry your heart with me (i carry it in
my heart) i am never without it (anywhere
i go you go, my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing, my darling)
                                  i fear
no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet) i want
no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)