A ‘Dye Hard’ choice It’s a tough choice to make to stop colouring your hair. Especially when you’ve been doing it for decades. It’s the bungee-jump of vanity. It means a changed ‘identity’ or rather, a change in how others will see and recognise you. The payoff is, that for once, you will see your…
Category: Personal Growth
Art is all around us
Art doesn’t have hang in a quiet gallery somewhere. Art is all around us. My city, Johannesburg, is an urban gallery and the exhibits change constantly. The purple collection is on view for a limited time only. Jacaranda trees in their short sweet season of lilac bloom and the blue Agapanthus are all bursting into…
Taking time to snap a dandelion…
I’m observant. I often see things framed in a photo I feel I should take or wish I had taken. Whimsical moments that come our way when we choose to see them. As I was locking the front door leaving for work one morning last week – laden with my briefcase, my handbag, my sunglasses,…
Thriving or surviving?
Yesterday I spotted the first rose of summer in my garden. A soft pink bloom on a bush that I bought and planted only one year ago. This will be its first settled season. This morning I went out for a closer inspection and on one floribunda bush only – counted 65 buds waiting to…
A Rose-Scented Life 