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
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