Top of Molteno Rd

This place

I’ve always enjoyed this part of Cape Town. It’s remarkably quiet for a City Suburb. You can almost forget that the city is at your feet. It’s probably because the mountain is at your back. There’s a sense of ‘being above it all’, not in a snobbish, colonial or classist way, but rather in a spiritual, detached way. Looking down you can observe without influencing, appreciate without having to interact. The one-on-one activities that consume your everyday existence fall away and become of no importance. It’s this feeling that I’d like to hold on to and carry with me throughout the coming week. Every time doubt, worry, confusion, anger or fear cross my mind, I’ll take myself back to this place and remember how pointless those emotions are. How much they waste the precious moments we have.

The season’s upon us

It’s back. This week was the week that summer started folding over us again. There’s an excitement in the air. A heated excitement. The beaches are filling up, the gyms are packed with frenzied fat-loss freaks and the stores are on their marketing drives again, full of chocolate sins and garish red Santas. What gets my juices flowing is the sun. The source of it all. It’s bringing the life back to Cape Town and everyone can feel it. Driving behind me today were two girls dancing in their car to whatever they were playing on their system. It made me smile, and it made me remember – yet again – why I have such a love for this city, this place in the universe that is so full of diversity, mystery and controversy. It’s something about the unique blend of sea, land, mountain, and people congregated on the tip of Africa that keeps me interested and inspired. I keep saying I’m going to leave to experience something else, but I keep staying. I’m not ready to go yet.

“Find the place, find your space, fill your mind with the sun’s warm embrace. “

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