WEEK 4 What is in your hand? Let’s play around with this question.

The hand without the wristThe hand with the shirt's cuffThe hand with the shirt's cuff What do you have in your hand? – that is a question that reverberates continually in my mind. Indeed, what do I have in my hand? And what do you have in your hand? This is a loaded question. Especially if we start to play around with it. I can play around with this question and arrive at surprising answers if only I ask different questions. I can ask for instance whether...

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Number nine 29.11.2022

 Number nine 29.11.2022 The plants, or if you will, the seedlings in my maternity ward are doing well. Watermelon seedlings fromJeffreys Bay, Western Cape My friend in Jeffreys Bay, Western Cape gave me four watermelon pips to plant and two sprouted. Now my waiting game started; waiting for it to give me watermelons. During 2020 I participated in a seed-swop and got a fair number of seeds inter alia scarlet runner beans [8x]. I have three...

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Number 8 28.11.2022

The blue skies of Franschhoek, Western CapeWhat a lovely sunshine day we have in Rivonia, Johannesburg, South Africa. My plants are growing; and I still have seeds to attend to. A friend’s mother came from India to visit and she brought me some seeds as a gift. It is time for me to get on and get in the soil. And maybe I will be able to write about it later on. Yesterday I looked at my tender plants that are barely breaking soil; I wonder how on...

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