Riaan en Kari Doorduin: Injusthi stap: Dag 3

14 Mei 2008

Injusthi stap: Dag 3

So bietjie laat begin, maar nog steeds vroeg genoeg. Het besluit om vandag kort te hou. Bo op Injasuthi Dome (of net so entjie van die piek af) het ons vir Hans gewag terwyl hy sy bril gaan soek tussen die duisende rotse... Dit het my 'n geleentheid gegee om vinnig die weer te bekyk. Daarna op na Mafadi - (3451m) Mafadi is die hoogste (berg of) punt in Suid Afrika. Hang net af van definisies en watter kaart mens in jou hand het, etc... Maar ek dink Dean verduidelik dit mooi in die link.). Karen lyk of die hoogte siekte haar nogal kwaai vang, maar soos ons haar ken druk sy deur. Bo op Mafadi sien ons 'n hele uittog van Basothos. Vinnige breek agter 'n wind skuiling terwyl ons hulle van 'n afstand dophou en wonder wat op dees aarde hulle doen? Met 'n "gap" in hulle prosessie skuif ons aan na 'n stunning view op Injusuthi Greater. Gaan kamp opslaan, maar was toe bietjie te entoesiasties en moes weer terug na die ander kant van die rug. Oor die volgende nekkie en kontoer naby die kamp plek vir middagete. Van daar af zig-zag ons na die vallei waar ons kamp opslaan so 'n paar 100 meter daarvandaan. (Dit was luuks, reg langs 'n rivier, eerste keer op die stap wat ons so naby aan water staan. Natuurlik bietjie wasgeleentheid, baie vinnig, want die water was YSKOUD!) Begin later

stadig aandete maak. Magies vol... ogies toe. Zzzz....

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I wanted to live everywhere and smell, taste, feel everything. I wanted to go to sea, explore unknown lands, take off in a space rocket, dine only at all-you-can-eat restaurants, be the last to leave parties. What I couldn’t acknowledge then, and hardly now, is that life just isn’t like that for most of us. The quicksands of suburbia were lurking at every step, and those who broke on through to the sunlit uplands couldn’t find their way back, even when the poverty and lack of enthusiasm for climbing means they wanted to come back. It was the dream of an immature young man, which is exactly what I was.
My eyes would be drawn inevitably to the low ridge of purple hills that ringed the east side of Manchester. The weight of the city; of all those people moving on their tiny arcs across its concrete streets, would be lifted for a moment. That place, over there in those hills, was somewhere I could feel alive, where the moment of release could give me the clarity to understand unconsciously that poetry, prophecy, and religion are all one.

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If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.

What is my loftiest ambition? I've always wanted to throw an egg into an electric fan..

His handshake ought not to be used except as a tourniquet.

Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.

Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.

The world is moving so fast these days, that men who says it can't be done are generally interrupted by men who are doing it.

Pioneers are the people with the arrows in their backs.