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5 Jul

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@RobynPorteous The blessing of breath. That automatic action without which we would be nought, but on which we seldom spend a thought. So we wallow in our breath's shallows, we stutter and sputter, and instead of breathing deep when the going gets steep, we block our airflow or neglect to

@RobynPorteous

@RobynPorteous go slow, so that at times we over-ventilate when we most need to oxygenate, or under-inflate as opposed to making our lungs dilate, and we miss the connection between coping with what we have to face, and breathing at a steady, abdomen-based pace.

Allow me also to mention,

@RobynPorteous

@RobynPorteous that if you give breathing intention, if you give the flow of air meaning, whether just thinking of it as clearing and cleaning, or echoing some deeper, philosophical notion, of the ebb and flow of life's motion, it somehow enhances, invigorates and intensifies, this seemingly

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@SoliPhilander

20 May

I'm sitting here listening to the rain, feeling such love for my late Grandmother.
Those of you who know, know. The sink-huisies with leaks, sleeping under plastic bags to keep dry, clambering onto roofs in the rain to once again try and lessen the raining inside. And the

build-up to it, the soup (Annie was renowned for her 'stamp en stoot), the finding dry spots for things that could ruin, the placement of buckets and pots and other containers to catch the leaks.
The sheer 'adventure' of making it through a rainy night.

Here's the thing though:

In all of that she could still make us feel like we're privileged, should be grateful for what little we had, and consider those who had nothing. This extraordinary woman, with only her faith and her determination, in harsh circumstances, with so much against us, still managed

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@SoliPhilander

19 May

The challenges facing Selina's Soup Kitchen in Wellington centres around resources, capacity and consistency. Our first delivery incl a stove, a 100l big pot, dry foodstuffs and masks and sanitizer
#TheNetworkOfCare
#TheAnwarJakoetFoundation
#TheSoliPhilanderFoundation

Selina and Meghal have been operating with no assist from Gov or local business. We are very happy to welcome them to The Network Of Care and the support, skills and resources we hope to access for them
#TheNetworkOfCare
#TheAnwarJakoetFoundation
#TheSoliPhilanderFoundation

Selina's Soup Kitchens feed a staggering number of children daily
#WellingtonMatters
#TheNetworkOfCare
#TheAnwarJakoetFoundation
#TheSoliPhilanderFoundation

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@SoliPhilander

18 May

I told my mother they found Courtney's body.

It was Mothers Day.

I listened as she lost herself, found herself. A short lament and then a litany of ways in which Courtney's murderer was to be tortured, made to feel the extremes of pain, made to long

for death, a death withheld and only brought to bear in the most lingering, extended expression of suffering possible.

I watched as she marched endlessly between kitchen and bathroom, doing something, anything, to work off the adrenaline of the anger and the

looming torpor of sad, resigned acceptance; in her passion answering her own questions about Courtney's mother, her father, ANY caregiver or caretaker.

I wished I could weep then - as if somehow absolved from guilt - in the face of access to the sea of sorrow that is norm for

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@SoliPhilander

9 Nov 20

The Pride of Brackenfell?
'It's not right to hit a woman, but....'
You're part of the problem
Or you didn't see the woman walking AWAY from him?
Oh wait, you don't recognize her right to protest.
Because you don't recognize rights you don't agree with
Right

But for yourself you insist on the rights you like
And your concern for your children
Is that they should stay believing that it only matters that all is well with them - even if that means disregarding the person right next to them.
And I see you justifying it with the

ballyhoo around shampoo
But this time it wasn't shampoo.
It was about our children
And not a thought for those disregarded
Only heroism for those disregarding
But hey, that's mos ever the way

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@SoliPhilander

9 Nov 20

https://twitter.com/alanwinde/status/1325805747603730433

This narrative denies that 'addressing our concerns responsibly' in the Western Cape invariably means being corrected on our evaluation of our lived experience. I was recently engaged with a Social Worker at the Children's Court and made myself very 'irresponsible' when insisting

https://twitter.com/alanwinde/status/1325805747603730433

on a youngster not being racially profiled. In fact, my choices were shut up or be removed. Everywhere in my experience the context only works if everyone gets on board with pre-determined parameters. Parameters imposed on community. Should the deep concern here not be for those

Matric learners now painted as insulted in a racist way? Surely there must be some empathy for how these youngsters must feel? Or are they now expected to understand that the bigger issue here are the rights of those who saw it fit to exclude them?

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