Spit

You’ve been there before, you know the feeling: all of who you are gets drawn to that one thing, a piece of art, a recital, a scene from a movie, the one you love, nature around you… and then your body reacts: the tears start flowing, the goosebumps arrive, the inexplicable feeling of being where...

Pens en Pootjies

In Afrikaans we have a saying: “pens en pootjies”, meaning with your whole body, or with everything. If, for instance, you want to say the rugby player went into the maul with everything he had, you would say “hy is pens en pootjies in daai losgemaal in”.  Previously, I wrote that we have been gifted...