“You take delight not in a city’s seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.” ― Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities There is something sublime about being anonymous in a foreign city, about being a stranger to the streets, smells and […]
Cape Town Can Wait
I adore Cape Town. But this is less about the destination – as it is with life. This is about a film and what it has to teach us about how we travel. Last night, I sat in the darkness of one of the city’s […]
The Art of Giving. And Giving Well.
It’s time. Time for compassion. Simple, beautiful, life-affirming, life-changing and life-saving compassion. There is always space for more empathy, more tenderness, more kindness, but sometimes you feel the need for it a little more intensely. As I do now. As perhaps you do too. In […]
Why Nature is the Best Place for Your Kids To Learn
We loved the blog, Why Nature is the Best Place for Your Kids To Learn, from Londolozi and had to share it with you here… Written by Josephine Benecke, it reveals just why a wilderness like Londolozi in South Africa is the best classroom for our little ones. Waldkindergarden is a […]
A Sanctuary For Man and Elephant
It’s a story that has reached people near and far, because it speaks to the heart. Perhaps it is because of the heart that we detect in them, the subjects of the story, the elephants of Africa, that pulls us in. Perhaps this is what […]