Sitting in Kalk Bay as I write this. It’s hot and humid, but a slow, cool breeze is starting to drift in from the sea. There was an orca in the harbour last week! There’s usually a fluster with the appearance of orcas, but honestly I’d take an intelligent mammal over a toothy fish anyContinueContinue reading “A newsletter about not much at all”
Author Archives: Tanya Meeson
Such sweet delight is mine
I’m writing this tonight, last night to you and me in the future. I hope you had a good night’s sleep. I hope I didn’t totally lose my mind. This will be a short one. A little update note from me to you as opposed to a newslettery thing. My brain, my head, my mind, isContinueContinue reading “Such sweet delight is mine”
A Year of Seeing Good
Towards the end of last year, I had a revelation. I thought a great thought to myself. One day, I thought – and it was a lovely day; a sunny sort of wonderful late spring day – I thought: what if people aren’t assholes*. What if, I thought – and bear with me here – what if, IContinueContinue reading “A Year of Seeing Good”
Wishing upon a star
I’m sending Christmas cards this year. Yes, I know, I know, I say this every year; its something I’ve wanted to do for a while now, probably ever since I came back from Taiwan where I learned to send mail and gift boxes. (And also: send by actual post? From this country? Oh how weContinueContinue reading “Wishing upon a star”
Gone in 600 Seconds: The Woodstock edition
It was an early Sunday morning. So early, in fact, that not even SE Supermarket was open. I lived in one of those narrow Victorian Woodstock houses on the corner of Salisbury and Roodebloem opposite this place, so you know that means something. Anyway. The household – and the rest of Woodstock, no doubt – wasContinueContinue reading “Gone in 600 Seconds: The Woodstock edition”
TANYA MEESON 