There’s a lot I want to share with you. I have recently finished Erin Meyer and Reed Hastings’ No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention, and Wahbie Long’s Nation on The Couch: Inside South Africa’s Mind, both of which are…
Today is our 100th newsletter. At school, I had fantasies of scoring a hundred runs in cricket. I never got past twenty-seven. Today though, I think I can claim that century. Thank you for being a part of this journey.…
The warm Spring weather took us to Protégé in Franschhoek. Protégé is the sister restaurant to Epice, that I told you about last year at this time. Epice, headed by Chef Charné Sampson, went on to win the World Culinary Awards Best…
Hello friends Today’s letter is coming to you from Schuilhoek Cottage. Thank you to Defijn founder, Eckardt Kasselman, for introducing me to this place of quiet beauty. I am staying mostly offline, so will share some pictures with you next…
I hope that you’re doing well. On Wednesday I dropped my cellphone, snapping the charger that it was plugged into. As I was writing to you today, I took a break to get something out of the freezer. The drawer…
Good morning friends Today is the fiftieth and final letter of this year. In my first letter of the year, I wrote “This will not be an easy year.” In the second, a week later, I said “This year will…
Good morning humans Forgive the oddball greeting. I have been immersed in Tade Thompson’s excellent sci-fi Wormwood trilogy. I came to know about it reading The eight must read African Novels to get you through lockdown. Although I am not a massive…
Good morning good friends My Covid journey started with me waking, gasping for breath as phlegm bubbled into my throat closing down my breathing. I didn’t sleep that night. I would doze off. The suffocating sludge would rise, and I…
Over this week, I was reflecting on last week’s expressed intention to write about Wahbie Long’s Nation on the Couch. I was about to say to you that it felt like a heavy topic to be exploring in the second last month…
Good morning everyone Personal mastery is challenging. One must inspire oneself and others with a vision that, in the current moment, feels optimistic, maybe even a touch fantastical. And, one must hold a sober-minded assessment of the present. A…
Good morning friends How are you? No, really, how are you? Pause and take a moment to connect to yourself. Sit quietly on this Sunday morning. Close your eyes. Breathe. Scan your body. Where are you holding tension? Are…
Good morning everyone Everyone I speak to is motivated to make the best of the lockdown. Yet, this is an entirely unique moment and we all know that motivation is a fickle friend (remember your New Year’s resolutions?). We need…