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You have a tendency to bring out the writer in one……….and bring out memories (not regrets) of the past. Only Yesterday I contemplated writing my memoirs when I was a child growing up on a plot in Benoni klein plasies with borehole water , no electricity , everything we ate was grown there, slaughtering our own meat et all. I can so relate to a story like this and will in all probably copy it into my ebooks file on kindle.
A fruity, sweet smell with a hint of pineapple. It clung to all of us. I have a romantic notion that it was our souls getting excited because they they had a very real chance of being released. ”I can’t quite find the words, except to say: what an article!
As always your writing is insightful and thought provoking. Thank you for having the courage to engage readers in your personal journey, brilliantly reflecting our own hopes and fears. Thank you for sharing.
Very interesting and well written as always Jacques. I’m sure you challenge people often – facing real life issue and verbalising concepts that most people avoid talking about.
Great piece, my friend. What a blessing you are: to random strangers on an airplane, and to those of us who get to share this life with you. It is hard, sometimes: so unbelievably hard, you are right. And I thank God that I have you as a friend, because if you can summon this much empathy for someone you’ve just met, how much more will you give to those of us you love when we need you?
Wow, the power of painfully honest thinking put into words Jacques. This puts a balance to positive platitudes. You have done a great service to me and many others for such deep honesty and bare self-disclosure. Thank you. Congruent!
I so love your articles. Thank you.
Besides likes and hearts and emoji faces, if there were a symbol for resonate I’d have tapped it a few times!!! Heres to being the magnificence that is ours to claim! 🙂
Now that took guts to say. You have just shifted my perception of you….I listen to goal setting stuff and think I just hate it. Well done for writing from the heart. Thank you.
What some folks have said about my writing
Truly outstanding, my friend!!! I loved every word and the perspective comes at a crucial time for me today. Thanks Jacques!
I know that kind of land having had relations in the Karoo – I suspect that it was a a mixture of both your writings with the latter being more dominant – I read & recalled my childhood visits to my great uncle & aunt. You paint wonderful word pictures Jacques.
Great article Jacques. Wonderfully put. As an artist you should be very proud of that work!
You are a true writer Jacques…well written.
Jacques, this is a brilliant and very human post – kept me nodding in agreement right to the end.
This makes me want to yell with excitement and do a happy dance, while shouting Yes, Yes, Yes.Jacques…I am loving the transitions you are going through.
Always love the way you think Jacques. Thought-provoking and challenging. (P.S. Dudeism should TOTALLY be a real word).
Beautifully written, Jacques
Just what I needed to hear today. I have been so deep in that camp for the last while, so thank you for freeing me. Thank you.
Now that was a good read.
Jacques de Villiers! In the period we were friends we had some good conversations, but I don’t ever recall the topics being around the things you have been writing about lately. I wish they had been; but we probably just weren’t here yet. Am loving your insights and revelations and, mostly, I love your honesty. Your descriptions are pretty powerful too.
A great piece, Jacques de Villiers. You have a canny way of making us really “feel” stuff; you open our eyes to the realities that we so often elect to ignore. Thank you for that.
Sometimes it’s hard… Thanks for the great piece.
A beautiful, heartfelt bit of writing. I love it. Daphne du Preez
Every word resonated and I am truly grateful for everything I have. Can’t add to the great comments that have been posted.
Wow JACQUES, awesome article made me think and appreciate what I have. Thanks.
Jacques, thank you very much for an insightful and at the same time thought provoking post.
Amazing story; a glimpse of the untold pain that is right next to us. Thanks for sharing that on FB Jacques.
I’ve re-read this a few times now… It’s beautiful and thought-provoking and truthful. Like a movie you can watch over and over.
Beautiful Jacques. Thank you for your honesty, and sharing this. I get it.
Once again realised why we love you so much…
Beautiful. I so wish everyone could ‘get’ this; the world would be a happier place.
Courageous writing, Jacques. Well done. I have to agree that goal setting is not all its made out to be and its a bit like the old swot analysis of a company – limited to what you know – I still pin up my long term goals behind.
This caused a conversation in my home. Well said.
I yearn to have someone elevate my soul. Beautiful words…
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