Aweh, My Dearly Beloved Fellow Ruminants & Groupies A Quick Heads-Up If you’re new here, hi: I’m usually more chaos and curiosity than crisis and collapse. But today’s post? It’s heavier. It’s personal. And it’s been building for a long time.” Usually, this blog is a space for playful thinking and unexpected tangents. Today? We’reContinue reading “Ruminations on hatred”
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Ruminations on a family living in Saxonwold Johannesburg
Aweh, My Dearly Beloved Fellow Ruminants & Groupies Today I have decided to do some navel-gazing about a family living in Saxonwold, Johannesburg. This is, of course, my navel and my family. What else would a self-diagnosed narcissist do? Let’s start with understanding Saxonwold. Our family moved into a house here in May 2010. We’reContinue reading “Ruminations on a family living in Saxonwold Johannesburg”
Ruminations on 2026: Indecision, Decline & Other Forecasts
Aweh, My Dearly Beloved Fellow Ruminants & Groupies, Forgive me, dearly beloved ruminants, it has been three weeks since my last ruminations. I have also harboured some impure thoughts about municipalities and service delivery. On the bright side, we enjoyed a wonderful, blog‑free holiday. I confess to a severe post‑holiday melancholy as we drive homeContinue reading “Ruminations on 2026: Indecision, Decline & Other Forecasts”
Ruminations from the Edge of Justice, While Waiting for Godot
Aweh, My Dearly Beloved Fellow Ruminants & Groupies, Not every Friday is soft and pastel. Some demand a darker palette. This is one of those. Perhaps next week I’ll write a breezy, hopeful rumination about looking on the bright side of 2026, fresh starts, better habits, and reasons to be optimistic. But this week, asContinue reading “Ruminations from the Edge of Justice, While Waiting for Godot”
Ruminations of a Boy in the Chapel at St Stithians
Aweh, My Dearly Beloved Fellow Ruminants & Groupies, We are generally advised not to speak publicly about religion.It’s bad manners. It’s divisive. It upsets people who prefer their certainties undisturbed. Unfortunately, not pissing into the wind has never struck me as a sufficient reason to stay silent. It is, in fact, a recurring theme ofContinue reading “Ruminations of a Boy in the Chapel at St Stithians”
Ruminations on Investments, Retirement and Anxiety
Aweh, My Dearly Beloved Fellow Ruminants & Groupies, On one hand, I’m a capitalist investor. I study market cycles, track returns, think about diversification, and invest, quite deliberately, in the stock market. I do this to build retirement capital. To sleep at night. To avoid becoming a financial burden on my boys before we stepContinue reading “Ruminations on Investments, Retirement and Anxiety”
A Zappean Scream into the Abyss
Aweh, My Dearly Beloved Fellow Ruminants & Groupies, Here we are again, perched at the edge of the abyss, squinting into the darkness and wondering whether to leap, to peer, get pissed, or to simply scream. Because, dearly beloved, some of us have done something curious: we have become too conscious. The trouble isn’t thatContinue reading “A Zappean Scream into the Abyss”
Ruminations on abundance, austerity and hypocrisy
Aweh, My Dearly Beloved Fellow Ruminants & Groupies Forgive Me Groupies Forgive me, groupies, for my merciful silence these past few weeks. Life has come at me fast, deadlines, distractions, and the usual existential dread. But what finally pulled me back to the keyboard was a dinner I had this week with an old friendContinue reading “Ruminations on abundance, austerity and hypocrisy”
Ruminations on magical thinking
Aweh, My Dearly Beloved Fellow Ruminants & Groupies So, as you might have noticed, I have a thing about pink cows. This is probably a sign of a deeply disturbed mind. But there are other farm animals, and diversity and inclusion are important, so let’s give pigs a chance this week. Farm animal equity, ifContinue reading “Ruminations on magical thinking”
Ruminations on humanity’s greatest achievement
Aweh, My Dearly Beloved Fellow Ruminants & Groupies The Bot Knows Best? So, what’s humanity’s greatest achievement? I asked ChatGPT 4. And because I’m cruel, I made it choose just one. “If confined to one, the scientific method stands as humanity’s greatest achievement.It is the foundation for nearly every other major advancement, space exploration, medicine,Continue reading “Ruminations on humanity’s greatest achievement”
Ruminant Pink Friday 