Well, the Grahamstown National Arts Festival is upon us - hopefully heating up a freezing winter wonderland with creativity manifest! For those that have never experienced a Gtown ArtsFest, put it on your bucket list and give yourselves at least one meander in this most fantastic world! Drama, comedy, musical theatre, jazz, music, stand-up, street theatre, painting, sculpture, photography, arts installations plus plus plus. It's insane! The whole programme would take you six months to…

Me human. Me man. Me musician. Me artist. Me uncle. Me here now.

To even my own amazement, I have been living away from Jozi for 4 years now. In that time I've figured out how to become totally water self-sufficient - off the municipal grid and onto raintanks - I have learnt to drum - fulfilling a childhood dream - and am now in a band performing 5 gigs at the upcoming Grahamstown ArtsFest (which is also where I now live), have participated daily in the upbringing of my niece…

"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience"

Teilhard de Chardin

And for me that insight changes everything. It puts the horse before the cart, the master above the slave, the 'being and…