april fool.

this is not a joke. welcome to my new blog. feel free to be inspired. paint the town red. fly away with my swallows. find yourself in a retro loft eating sushi. move into a house with cupboards of clothes for a vintage store. start bikram yoga and feel revived. plan a photo shoot in a pool in your clothes. find a farm in the middle of cape town with geese. wear a 100 percent silk shirt with frayed denim shorts. book a ticket to london. and go...

swinging along.

i remember this song i used to play on the piano when i was a kid. swinging along. singing a song. wearing a smile as long as a mile. i like to play. music all day. life tunes with style are real. worth while... a few weeks ago i relived the childhood experience of swinging as high as i could on a swing at night. i hopped onto the back of a mustard old scooter with a friend and we found ourselves on the edge of a stream at some old school swings. when i say that this was one of the most invigorating things i've done in a while it's not an exaggeration. the wind through my hair, the cold night air, the butterfly feeling in the pit of my stomach as i went higher and higher made me feel young and carefree and exhilerated. it just goes to show how we tend to neglect the simple things in life. something as simple as swinging: letting your head fall back and breathing in the fresh air as it swishes past your face and going as high as you can just because you can.taking you back to your childhod. when everything was simple. when we had no worries. when we laughed. a lot.

hello monday.

‎​Its gonna suck initially, but when you realise after a while that you're actually making the most of the present you will feel lighter and relieved. If there's one thing I've learnt its to remove toxic things from your life so that you have energy to make the most of the positives, the things you are blessed with, the simple pleasures.

magic shoes.

"Those look like comfortable shoes! You can tell a lot about a person by their shoes, where they bin' where they goin'. If I remember real hard I can remember ma' first pair o' shoes, they was my magic shoes". - Tom Hanks, Forrest Gump

no fear.

a sharp splinter of emotion surges into my flesh
deep and true it tears slowly through the sinewy fibres
of skin
and nestles into the throbbing veins of my blood.

but it does not hurt.

no sensation of feeling ricochets through my body and soul. I am not numb,

merely impassive and desensitized by this reoccuring consciousness. i do not flinch at the sharpness, realness, sadness.

I wait to embrace it, i yearn to to surmount it. I live to love it.

see feel hear. no fear.

one love.

only love will set us free from hate and jealousy....