Riaan en Kari Doorduin: Oktober 2012

20 Oktober 2012

Eerste Swemles

Ons het baie lank uitgesien na hierdie dag.. Vincent en Benjamin se eerste swemles. 'n Lekker warm binneshuise swembad, twee ander maatjies, en 'n baie oulike swemjuffrou. Maar ten spyte van alles het Vincent nie 'n baie goeie tyd gehad nie. Benjamin, aan die ander kant, was in sy element. Swem is definitief op sy lysie van fun things to do. Vincent het darm later gesien dit is eintlik nie so sleg nie.

Dis nat. Ek ken nie die mense nie. Ek wil huistoe gaaaan!

Neusie in die water

Swem is lekker!!

Mamma troos 'n bietjie.

Ten minste is hier cool toys.

Die hele groepie

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n Lekker koppie koffie by Bean in Love het die les afgesluit.

Ons tweede kuier by Keith in Sutherland

Dit was nou ook al 'n hele rukkie terug - Augustus dink ek. Die naweek wat Vincent begin stap het.

Soms het mens nog steeds 'n groter hand nodig

Maar die groter hand is 'n bietjie stadig!

Mooi blomme langs die pad

En selfs 'n bietjie sneeu

Keith wys weer sy slag met kiddies

Matroos op pad terug

06 Oktober 2012

Cool Cousin Adventures

'n Hele ruk terug, ek kan nou nie eers onthou in watter maand dit was nie, het ons vir Ronel en Benjamin aan Orientering bekendgestel. Ons was Cool Cousin Adventures en dit was groot pret.

Gaan daar nou iets gebeur? Dink jy ons gaan nog lank hier rondstaan?

'n Tag gevind

Waar is ons nou?

Op een grote paddastoel, rood sonder witte stippen..

Kan...nie..wakker... bly... nie....

Eks nog wakker!!

Ook nie meer vir lank nie.

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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.