Dear Friends A few weeks ago, I opened The New Yorker to read about a trash-eating sea monster that had appeared in the Hudson. The monster was the WasteShark, an unmanned craft that gobbles our rubbish from urban waterways. In…
It’s been a winter in Cape Town, which means wet, very wet. Joyfully, it means nature glowing green. As we drove into Greyton last weekend it was as if the valley and its surrounding hills had signed a pact to…
This delicate sculpture by Atang Tshikare will make your heart smile. He created it in the heart of lockdown. It speaks of life, of growth, of the possibility of renewal. I thought we all need to be reminded of that possibility.…
Good morning everyone In last week’s letter, I included quotations about love from Thomas Moore’s Care of the Soul. Thank you to Maryse Barack who shared this quotation from Chilean biologist, Humberto Maturana, “Love, allowing the other to be a…