MOURNING

Anne-Christine of the esteemed Lens-artists quartet requests the following from us:   “We are looking forward to saying Good Morning to all of you! Be it your morning, any morning or some creative twist”.

Anne-Christine does that creative licence include a phonological twist, which would unfortunately give it the opposite meaning to “Good morning”?

• The world is in mourning, someone must change the mourning into mornings filled with smiles.

Not necessarily me though… The first person who died in South Africa from coronavirus was a 48 year old colleague who had underlying risk factors. The same underlying risk factors I had in 2013 – embolisms in the lungs. I must admit I did not know her and as she was working in a different building, was not in contact with her. But the colleague dying being the first in our country and the realization that the “fit” Abrie of 2013 fitted the risk profile perfectly, touched me. 

The photo’s underneath (expect the last one), were all taken early one morning, shortly before lockdown. While I have not been active on my blog, it would fit quite a few of the recent  Lens-Artist topics:

• Distance,
• Simplicity
• A River runs through it,
• Reflections,
• Second time round, to name a few

It was a working weekend (that was the excuse to break away anyway); we installed a solar panel (having previously installed a wind turbine) to my friend Danie’s off the grid break-away cottage. Given the circumstances, it will be a while before breaking away to Krabgat (or anywhere else) will happen. 

To me the first photo is symbolic of what the world is experiencing at the moment.

Barbed- in without a barber

This  was certainly one of my more somber posts…

• The world is in mourning, someone must change the mourning into mornings filled with smiles.

My attempt to make you smile is visual this week, as a result of my shaver also being in lock-down. Due to the work I do, I have an interest in the secondary bond market and its impact on investments. But the actual reason for being interested in BOND(s) – dramatic pause – is rather more obvious…