Riaan en Kari Doorduin: Desember 2009

28 Desember 2009

Voorspoedige Nuwe Jaar

Ons bid dat al ons lesers, vriende en famielie 'n geseënde feestyd agter die rug het en 'n voorspoedige 2010 mag ingaan! Dat almal ten minste een game sokker mag kyk en sodoende ook deel van hierdie wêreld gebeurtenis mag wees.

25 Desember 2009

Kersfees op Soutfontein: 'n Collage

'n Alternatiewe kersboom.

Vroegmore roei op die dam saam met Brett.

Die spyskaart....

Cassata a la Nattrass

Lekker speel op die dam

Kersfees op Soutfontein:

16 Desember 2009

Koffie in Citrusdal

Ons het vanoggend die heerlikste koffie gedrink, in Citrusdal van alle plekke. Salome van Grapevine maak regtig keurige koffie, en heerlike koek vir die wat 'n soettand het. Ek het by Dirk en Ilse gehoor van die lekker koffie toe sy begin van die jaar (of was dit al laasjaar?)die koffieshop oopgemaak het, en sederdien was ek al menige male daar. Vandag het ek vir Riaan gaan wys waar ek altyd koffie drink, en hy was beindruk.

Julmi, Salome se dogter, het ook 'n baie oulike geskenkwinkel, De-Lovely, reg langsaan. Hulle is vas van plan om bietjie kultuur na Citrusdal te bring ("al vat dit ook 10 jaar om die mense te leer wat kultuur is"), en die plan is om 'n europese atmosfeer biertuin met tapas op die stoep en voorgras van die geskenkwinkel te begin bedryf. Hulle bied ook kunsklasse en musiekles aan.

Vroegmore poue

Dinsdagoggend vroeg was die pou-mannetjie vroeg op om vir sy nooi te wys wie die mooiste vere het... behalwe, dit het vir my gelyk of 'n kat sy stert beetgekry het! Wonder of hy bewus is daarvan...

Mieke kan sit!

Kyk hoe mooi sit die wêreld se oulikste baba (jammer aan al ons vriende met kiddies, maar sy IS immers ons peetkind!)

Groente...

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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.