• Birds

    As something different this week, I am posting the work of two of the WhyWrite? course participants – This is Vivi’s contribution – enjoy: When I look at birds – I just KNOW that they were designed!  They couldn’t have ‘just happened’ – their ability to build nests, their songs, their colours, their lightness of…

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  • Serengeti in Africa….

    As something different this week, I am posting the work of two of the WhyWrte? course participants – This is Jingaling’s contribution – enjoy: Ecosystems anywhere, are worth going to. Why? You may ask yourself. Let me tell you about my experience. Being confined to a routine of work and home, a visit to the…

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  • Lockdown – Day 32

    Day thirty two is upon us and we are now not certain of how much longer we have yet to go. Our government has drawn up a five-stage lockdown process of which we are presently in stage five. May 1st. we move into stage Four, which conditions are less severe than stage five. We are…

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  • The Greatest Power

    Albert Einstein spoke of the greatest power on earth. If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a ringing gong or a clanging cymbal. 2If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have absolute faith…

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  • Why Write? Part six

    If you have just joined us, then you need to read previous editions in the series, you will find these here: With each publication in this series, I was giving you assignments to do and asked you to return these to me for editing. This way you sent in your effort, which I called a…

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  • Lockdown – continued

    We may just be able to end the national lockdown safely and re-start the economy – Alan Knott-Craig BY ALAN KNOTT-CRAIG@GOODTHINGSGUYAPR 7, 2020 70,338 0 Johannesburg, South Africa (7 April 2020) – Alan Knott-Craig wrote an opinion piece that is going viral about how we need to get our minds around why it’s possible to be optimistic about South Africa…

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  • Why Write? Part Five

    If you have just joined us, then you need to read previous editions in the series, you will find these here: Scroll down to the beginning, ‘Why Write?’ With each publication in this series, I will be giving you assignments to do and ask you to return these to me for editing. This way you send…

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  • Lockdown – Day 7

    Lockdown! Day Seven is upon us, with fourteen days to go! In a country where 75% of our population have a television service and 68% have internet connectivity, 85% have mobile devices; it is safe to say that most of our population are informed of world and countrywide events. Yet, short of taking ‘house to…

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  • Lockdown!

    Lockdown!

    Our President placed this country under lockdown as at midnight on Thursday, March 26th. 2020. And this was my take on the issue at that time: I am the oldest member of my immediate family, which consists of two children and five grandchildren, living in five different homes within a twenty five kilometer radius of…

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  • Jeff Goins – Webinar.

    Hello All  I received the below mail from best selling author, Jeff Goins yesterday. For those of us doing the ‘Why Write?’ course, (this does not exclude others, you will always learn something – and it’s free!) I thought you might be interested:  From: Jeff Goins <jeff@goinswriter.com> Sent: Friday, 27 March 2020 16:15 To: peter@telechat.co.za…

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