It really was a wild treasure wedding and it was like that because of the two of you.

Mallorie, your inner strength and harnessed wisdom is rare and so needed in our society and universe. It was honestly such a blessing to have you bring some of our truth to our wedding ceremony. It was the ribbon that bound the past weeks and months of careful preparation, thoughts and feelings together. It really was as Martin said, the foundation to our marriage and now we are privileged and gifted with th...
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When Nic and I envisioned our wedding, we knew that we wanted a ceremony that was deeply meaningful to us as a couple, as we both felt that all too often the marriage ceremony itself is  overshadowed by  the reception and all the details of of decor and design (which though amazingly fun to plan, are really, if you think about it, secondary to having a life commitment witnessed by your loved ones). So with that in mind, and the fact that Nic and I are from completely different religiou...
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On a sparkling winters day last week, Mallorie and I headed off to the office, to do some navigation excercises and discuss upcoming projects. Hiking off path in a magical place down near Cape Point we came across this tortoise shell, nestling amongst restios as if it had been there for hundreds of years. Perhaps it had. I have never seen a live Leopard Tortoise that size. Regular fires here probably keep them small. We peeped through a large hole in the top of the carapice-it was completely ...
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The Quiet Portal

My sister and I scatter our chatter
along the twisting  paths,
through the cool Kloofs
and over the pulling peaks
tossing our complex lives out
across the indifferent tussock grass
across the heather raging mutely in her pink
until slowly silence swallows our littering voices
and the rain wrinkled rock
rises up and wraps us in stillness.

The clouds send flying saucer shadows
over the buffeted hills.
A budding Disa quivers on it’s curved
stem like an unopened prayer.
A spiral- shaped spide...
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