Riaan en Kari Doorduin: Melissa die mak takbok

03 November 2009

Melissa die mak takbok

Toe ek Woensdagoggend laasweek die gordyne ooptrek, staan daar sowaar 'n bok in my tuin! Ek was redelik moerig met die bokke, wat net die vorige nag ons wingerd wat goed

aan die oprank was buite ons kamervenster, met die grond gelykgemaak het. Dus maak ek toe met 'n groot geraas die deur oop en klap my hande om die bok uit my tuin te verjaag. Maar, tot my verbasing, bly die bok rustig staan en knipper net haar oë. Toe ek my hand uithou, kom sy nader en snuffel, maar verloor gou belangstelling toe sy sien daar is nie kos nie. Sy het 'n hele ruk daar op ons stoep rondgehang, tot die kat se onsteltenis. Mia het nie goed geweet wat om met die nuweling te maak nie, en haar van alle kante bekruip.

Toe ek later vir Steven vertel van die bok, sê hy o ja dit is Melissa ons moet vir haar druiwe gee. Sy broer Peter op die plaas langsaan het die bok grootgemaak. Baie oulik, maar ek hoop sy bly uit my tuin!

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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.

Riaan en Kari Doorduin

03 November 2009

Melissa die mak takbok

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