Riaan en Kari Doorduin: Januarie 2009

27 Januarie 2009

Stadig....

24 Januarie 2009

Verbouings op Soutfontein

Ons het al so 'n paar dinge geleer uit die bou-petalje:

Bouers is 'n ander spesie.
Bouers gee nie om vir tuine nie. Hulle sien dit nie eens raak nie.
As 'n bouer iets op 'n slegter manier kan doen met minder moeite, sal hy dit verseker doen.
As 'n bouer gese het hy kom op 'n Saterdag, maar hy word die oggend wakker en is nie meer lus nie, dan kom hy nie.
'n Bouer weet nie wat 'n waterpas is nie.
Gelukkig het ons ook gesien dat dit wat 'n bouer in 'n dag doen, kan ons self in 2 ure doen.
Ons kat hou van die bou-gedoente. Dit maak heerlike nuwe speelplekke oop!

06 Januarie 2009

Mia-in-die-mand

03 Januarie 2009

Mooi sonsondergang

Pragtige sonsondergang vanaf Hotel Doorduin, Pringlebaai, se stoep.

01 Januarie 2009

Pieterse kuier

Die eerste oggend van 2009 kry ons v Reinhold en Chrisel en haar ouers. Lekker om te sien hoe groot hulle Wilhelm geword het. Daarna lekker in die res van Herold Nixon Porter Botaniese tuin gestap.

En geoefen hoe om met klein kiddies te pose....(k)

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"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." -Albert Einstein

"He who cannot draw on 3000 years is living from hand to mouth." -Goethe

"When confronted with a work of art, we have to open our minds to allow it to carry us away. If we seek to relate intimately to another person, we have to be prepared to make ourselves vulnerable.." - Karen Armstrong

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.

- Ed Douglas: Voices from the Summit, 2000

Nog quotes

Behold the guarantee - the bold print giveth, and the fine print taketh away.

Ask not for whom the telephone bell tolls. If thou art in the bath, it tolls for thee.

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.