insideCandy
A blog by catrinity
Blog description:
Writer of words, thinker of thoughts, hunter of happiness, pursuer of purpose, collector of experience... on a quest to live a meaningful life.
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insideCandy ranks 238 in Africa and 148 in South Africa. According to site visitors it ranks 977, and 906 according to page views:
According to blogroll links it ranks 233 and 371 according to the amount of links within Afrigator blog posts
seven words
Fear is inevitable where love is absent.
because it’s father’s day
An Ungiven Eulogy We collected years and seashells, watched gulls pushed backwards in the air by the strong Cape wind. If I looked across the water carefully, you said I would be able to see Australia. You found a conch for me, said it held a tiny ocean. Time sailed
when you own nothing
I’ve been on the periphery of conversations about the global economic meltdown and the world economic crisis. I hear about it on the news, I read about it in the paper, arbitrary people make reference to it during phone calls about unrelated things (e.g. ‘Oh, you know, with the economic
you were the matches
"Shoes should be the same shade as your hemline or darker," explained our colour-coding consultant. I blamed my taste on the moon’s position in Cascaya at my time of birth. You threw back your head and laughed, called me an ingénue. I still can see us— bare-faced on the N2-South,
a generation defining itself
Five of my poems (Curtain Call, Days of Cloth, Epiphany, One Last Look and Beauty) are scheduled to appear in Volume 8 of A Generation Defining Itself, which will be published before the end of the year. The Editor, Marlow Peerse Weaver, describes the book series as
the private blog
The big secret that nobody knows is that I keep a private blog. I often write things on the fly and so I keep it because it helps me to organise my thoughts before I send them out into the world. I use it to gestate ideas, to keep lists
the rules of the universe
My most excellent friend, Jacqui, sent me this list yesterday. It’s almost as excellent as she is, and so I’m sharing the wisdom with you… because sharing is caring. Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night. Don’t worry about what
climbing hills towards the future
South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) won an enormous victory in the country’s recent national elections. Thankfully it fell just short of the two-thirds majority needed to make unchallenged changes to the constitution. Had this been the case, the democracy we are all so proud of would have been
seven things
Lydia at Writerquake named insideCandy as one of seven blogs she loves, and gave me the ‘Kreativ Blogger Award‘ to prove it. Part of the award requires me to name seven things that I love - something which is quite difficult for me to do because I love so many
dear past me
Do you remember a light that shone from inside you, the sound of the ocean in your ears? You were once a member of the stars. Some knelt humbly at your feet, despite their own warm, brilliant light. Long ago you imagined yourself down to the earth. You did this
