“She smiled and said with an ecstatic air: “It shines like a little diamond”, “What does?” “This moment. It is round, it hangs in empty space like a little diamond; I am eternal.” ― Jean-Paul Sartre, The Age of Reason The search for a diamond, […]
Category: Art & Culture
The Route du Bonheur Diaries | Bushmans Kloof Part 1
A group of travellers head into a wilderness at the foothills of the Cederberg Mountains. 270 km from Cape Town, from home, they are on a road trip from coast (Ellerman House), to vineyard (Delaire Graff Estate), to mountain (Bushmans Kloof Wilderness Reserve & Wellness Retreat), to secret […]
The Route du Bonheur Diaries | Delaire Graff Estate
Above: The driveway leading up to the Delaire Graff Estate We all have our own way of pressing reset, of coming back to ourselves after losing our footing in the flurry of forces internal or external. The open road has always done this for me, preferably a […]
The Secret To Understanding Art
Above: Anton Smit’s Faith sculpture greet guests as they arrive at Delaire Graff Estate Most of us start out in life as rather eager artists. Our first art studios are the creches or primary schools of our youth or the tables of our family homes (also, sometimes the canvas […]
How To Celebrate A Birthday In Cape Town
“Some guy said to me: Don’t you think you’re too old to sing rock n’ roll? I said: You’d better check with Mick Jagger.” ― Cher As time passes on, it is my hope that I, like Cher, like Mick, will never be too old to sing […]