Glimpses of my life

These are the 40 glimpses of moments, experiences which resonate whenever I think of them.

My Lenten undertaking was to make something everyday, so I re-created and shared these memories.

Easter is my time for reflection and thanksgiving; it is a time of reverence and rejoicing for many.

Let us all pray for peace.

Day 1:                  Pavarotti’s astounding faith in love:…vincero, vincerooo!

Day 2:                  Torchlight showing rainwater running into a fresh lion print

Day 3:                  Electric green flashes as lorikeets shriek by

Day 4:                  Flowers bending under bees knees

Day 5:                  Michelangelo’s statue of David in Florence – artistic perfection!

Day 6:                  Tickalocks! All locked up!

Day 7:                  A wild elephant’s eye from 6 feet away ..!

Day 8:                 Peroop! peroop…! – bee eaters calling high in the sky

Day 9:                 A leaping tiger fish spitting my spoon back at me on Lake Kariba

Day 10:               The view from Table Mountain

Day 11:               The aerial ropeway at Havelock Mine

Day 12:               La Pietà di Michelangelo in St Peter’s Basilica

Day 13: The scent of Mum’s roses

Day 14:              Benny Wessels rubbing his bum in the frost after being caned!

Day 15:              A Mocambique Cobra standing hood-spread 6 inches from my feet…

Day 16:              Drifting down the Zambezi River watching crocs and avoiding hippos

Day 17:              The lone piper sounding a lament at the edge of the Mtsoli valley, Havelock Mine

Day 18:              Ozymandias

Day 19:              Family and friends under the flowering jacaranda at our wedding.

Day 20:              The blare of the trombone and poom-poom of the tuba blown by Swazi warriors on the march

Day 21:              Grilled piri piri prawns a la Portugues

Day 22:              Notre Dame cathedral

Day 23:              A headless puffadder trying to strike the hand holding its tail.

Day 24:              A whiter shade of pale

Day 25:              Daddy laughing at something he read – tears streaming from his eyes.

Day 26:              Pie jesu

Day 27:              A cold glass of beer on a hot afternoon

Day 28:              The Duomo in Florence. Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore 

Day 29:              The Concorde

Day 30:              Candy floss

Day 31:              Roadside Cosmos 

Day 32:              The scent of bread from bakery ovens

Day 33:              “Do not go gentle into that good night” by Dylan Thomas

Day 34:              Gustav Klimt’s painting: Judith and the head of Holofernes   

Day 35:              Blue swallows flitting past on a high mountain vlei

Day 36:              The  glint in the eye of an impish bull terrier

Day 37:              Samba pa ti – Carlos Santana

Day 38:              The amabutfo singing  Siya ncaba ka nkofula  on Swaziland Independence day, echoing from the Mdzimba Mountains

Day 39:              Ox Tail stew

Day 40:              Last Post sounding from the Police camp in the evening – Mbabane  in the 1950’s