Another Test Post

 Hello there (this is a test)

Another lovely morning filled with ideas and delightful chuckles.

What I got out of our chat:

1. We meet twice a month (generally at my studio or Zoom if easier for you).
2. First session: Friday 21 July. 9h45. Refreshments available.
3. A-M to start the 'editing' process using Microsoft tracker
4. SLM to pull July '22 to July 23 off the computer (or was that A-MM? (Please confirm). We will then merge the documents and proceed with adding chapters etc
5. We may find that the chapter headings open to us during this process
6. We should aim to have 2 retreats in 2024 (if I haven't 'popped' by then: 1 Dullstroom, the other perhaps Emoyeni?
7. A-M to restart/setup Blog. Perhaps DH could access that too (or not) in future?
8. Thanks for the book which as you will have seen is paid for and which I shall start this afternoon. I feel like being 'Gothic' today in the light of my 'considerably diminished hearing' and scrape down the side of my car.
9. Suggestion: that you join online Creative Calligraphy online from Thursday 3 August to Thursday 31 August. 17h30 - 19h00. (my Rosh Hashanah gift to you - or something).

I will communicate with you before I leave. Have a good meal with your mother.

As always. thank you.

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Looking to the Mountains

 It's been a day of reminiscing and remembering travels to Kashmir due to the fact that I have embarked on a journey to learn and write Sanskrit. 

I have a wonderful Sanskrit teacher who has been attempting to teach me to read and write in Sanskrit for a while. Gillian has a gift for teaching. She encourages, repeats and encourages again and I simply enjoy every moment of the time spent in lessons.

When we were visiting Leh in Kashmir we came upon some intriguing Gompas (monasteries) where we observed monks and participated in pujas and became immersed in the local culture. Such a privilege to experience the cracking silence of the Himalayas and the vast and never-ending icy crags. 

From the Bhagavad Gita

Carved stones in Kashmir

I am also working on poems for a journal of photographs which a woman has compiled over the past few years. We use her images as inspiration and it is another great initiative brought about by the pandemic. It is a wonderful creative initiative and I am in the process of working though some short poems, prose to describe some images. The photographs are taken along the Ou Kaapse Weg in Cape Town and are very beautiful.

Here are a few pieces written so far: 

So many blessings in the golden light of dawn.

Rainy day puddles dance differently in early morning light. No footprints to fill.

In the meantime I continue to work on calligraphy and Sanskrit and writing with a group from around the world every Wednesday evening. So satisfying as we are all so different in cultures and writing techniques. 

Just a little book, some palettes of paint a brush and a pen