Aweh, My Dearly Beloved Fellow Ruminants & Groupies Growing Up as Mock-Bait When I was seventeen, in a privileged all-boys’ high school, I was a 6 ft, 68 kg (150 lb) weakling and academic nerd. Definitely not one of the cool kids. Mocking people like me was a blood sport. I couldn’t choose to avoidContinue reading “Ruminations on being mocked”
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Ruminations on showing off
Aweh, My Dearly Beloved Fellow Ruminants & Groupies So, who among you has never been a show-off? Be careful now because this is a trick question. If your answer is no, we will need to send you straight to the Pinocchio corner. Admit it, you probably do. Often. A Gentle Reminder (That I’m Brilliant) Me?Continue reading “Ruminations on showing off”
Ruminations on the impoverishment of South Africans
Aweh, My Dearly Beloved Fellow Ruminants & Groupies So, I asked the all-knowing and infinitely wise ChatGPT to briefly characterise my blog. With a bit of editing, this is what it said: “Ruminant Pink Friday is a reflective blog that blends personal musings with sharp observations on truth, justice, identity, and the oddities of corporate,Continue reading “Ruminations on the impoverishment of South Africans”
Ruminations on Truth, Reality and Other Carefully Managed Illusions
Aweh, My Dearly Beloved Fellow Ruminants & Groupies What Even Is the Truth? I’ve been ruminating about the truth again. Ok, ok I know that might not be the most productive use of my time but that’s the price you pay if you have a deranged mind. Not “your truth” or “my truth” or evenContinue reading “Ruminations on Truth, Reality and Other Carefully Managed Illusions”
Ruminations on Bubbles, Xenophobia, and Pig Wrestling
Aweh, My Dearly Beloved Fellow Ruminants & Groupies Bubble Life, Then and Now Nerine, my wife, has often accused me of living in a bubble, detached from the perspectives of other people in the real world. When I was in the corporate world, I went from my air-conditioned office to an air-conditioned car to anContinue reading “Ruminations on Bubbles, Xenophobia, and Pig Wrestling”
Ruminations on financial advisors
Aweh, My Dearly Beloved Fellow Ruminants & Groupies As you know, I’m 64 and, surprisingly, Nerine still feeds me, though it’s debatable whether she still needs me. Next year, I hit my “sell-by” date, and formal full-time employment ends. Retirement looms. Polite people don’t talk about money. Ask how their investments are managed or howContinue reading “Ruminations on financial advisors”
Ruminations on the Art of Blaffle: Political Performance in the Age of Waffcrastination
Aweh, My Dearly Beloved Fellow Ruminants & Groupies Forgive me, groupies, it has been three weeks since my last bloviation. As you know, I like fancy words to make me look clever and if you don’t know them, to make you feel inferior. Let’s begin today’s sermon with one of my favourite words. What IsContinue reading “Ruminations on the Art of Blaffle: Political Performance in the Age of Waffcrastination”
Ruminations on loyalty
Aweh, My Dearly Beloved Fellow Ruminants & Groupies What is loyalty? Is it important? What am I loyal to? What are you loyal to? Loyalty: A Working Definition Let’s define it as a deep sense of allegiance or faithfulness to someone or something, like a person, group, cause, or belief. It usually involves support, trust,Continue reading “Ruminations on loyalty”
Ruminations on my career
Aweh, My Dearly Beloved Fellow Ruminants & Groupies Yes, this blog is often self-indulgent, and today will be no exception. I recently turned 64, and quite astonishingly, my wife still loves me. With less than a year to go until mandatory retirement, I’ve hit an important milestone: I no longer care about career advancement. I’veContinue reading “Ruminations on my career”
Ruminations on the unravelling of coherence
Aweh, My Dearly Beloved Fellow Ruminants & Groupies What does it mean to be coherent, and does it still matter? Coherence is the alignment of thought, speech, and action—a consistency of principle over time. Paired with articulate expression, it becomes clarity of voice. In our age of noise and narrative drift, speaking clearly from aContinue reading “Ruminations on the unravelling of coherence”
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