…My thoughts wandered back to the first time I had met Walter. It had nothing to do with food, but with castrating two young horses. I was spending some time at a large cattle farm and horse-riding enterprise in the Waterberg, a remote area in the northern regions of the South African bushveld. Triple-BContinue reading “Healing Rhinos and Other Souls – How it all began”
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“…then just do some good!”
“What is a fear of living? It’s being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don’t know what you’re hereContinue reading ““…then just do some good!””
“Life is like riding a bicycle…”
Two of my very favourite bicycle pictures – by Glenn Murray they make me want to get on my bicycle and go back to Mozambique! Thanks Glenn! “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.” – Albert Einstein
“HORiNg” – by JP Meyer
JP Meyer, one of my favourite local artists, created “HORiNg” for the Velvet Exhibition at the KKNK 2013 in Oudtshoorn. He says he would be delighted to donate the rhino work to any institution or organization that is working to save the rhino and that would also like to own it. Description of work: Long beforeContinue reading ““HORiNg” – by JP Meyer”
Impossible?
“It always seems impossible until it is done.” – Nelson Mandela –
World Book Day
Yesterday, 23 April was World Book Day. It was created by the UNESCO to celebrate books and the love of reading, and as a worldwide tribute to authors and books. It is also the anniversary of the deaths of William Shakespeare and Miguel de Cervantes, both in 1616, and inspired by the Catalan custom to exchangeContinue reading “World Book Day”
The Promise of Rain
Wonder what these Redwinged Starlings are chatting about? And also wondering if you’d call them a flock, a group, a family, a gaggle, a swarm, a parliament or…? Or a string perhaps :-)???
Review by Di van der Riet Steyn of the One Rule Book Club
The Prince Albert Friend recently published a review of Healing Rhinos and Other Souls: Thanks Di!!!
Encounters
“I didn’t really lead an exceptional life. I mean, I didn’t invent the light bulb, nor was I ever an explorer and discovered exciting new places, nothing like that – which is what people normally write about. But maybe there is a theme to my life. My love for nature. I suppose that’s a recurringContinue reading “Encounters”
Review of “Healing Rhinos…” for the Waterberg Nature Conservancy Newsletter
Richard Wadley has been so kind to include “Healing Rhinos and Other Souls” into the Books section of the Waterberg Nature Conservancy’s website. To have a look, please click here. He has also written a fabulous review for the Waterberg Nature Conservancy’s Newsletter January 2014. For the newsletter, please click here. Thank you Richard! BookContinue reading “Review of “Healing Rhinos…” for the Waterberg Nature Conservancy Newsletter”
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