IF AT FIRST YOU DO SUCCEED…  

IF AT FIRST YOU DO SUCCEED…  

Many of us will be familiar with the litany of anecdotes used to finish the saying, “If at first you don’t  succeed”, ranging from the initial “try, try again” to many more humorous options such as “try two  more times so that your failure is statistically...
PROS AND CONS  

PROS AND CONS  

In 1968 Joni Mitchell had a hit song called ‘Both Sides Now’ where she sang “I’ve looked at clouds  from both sides now, from up and down, and still somehow it’s cloud illusions I recall; I really don’t  know clouds at all.” The song went on to look at love...
IT IS ALL A BIG CON!  

IT IS ALL A BIG CON!  

“Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the  vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant,  vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a...
I CAN’T GET NO SATISFACTION!  

I CAN’T GET NO SATISFACTION!  

There is a very old and familiar proverb that says, “a rolling stone gathers no moss”; it has always  been seen to refer to people who are unwilling to settle in one place for any length of time,  suggesting that they will never accumulate any real benefit....
DRIVEN TO DESTRUCTION

DRIVEN TO DESTRUCTION

There is nothing more beautiful than driving through the rocky crags of the Matopos, through the dusty paths of our national parks, through the mountain passes of the eastern Highlands, along msasa-lined roads in northern rural Zimbabwe, across the Somabhula flats,...