66 Square Feet: Gabriella

Friday, May 28, 2010

Gabriella

Above: Ella Bella at the 50th Moomba Masters, Australia.

A shout out to my beautiful niece, South African junior waterskier Gabriella Viljoen who skied this morning in the 51st Masters Waterski Tournament at Callaway Gardens, Florida, and who is now officially the 18th Juniors Masters Slalom runner up, despite an interesting bikini incident in a crash...

3 comments:

Anyes said...: Way to go Gabriella...; May 28, 2010 5:24 PM
BumbleVee said...: way to go ...and.... forget a bikini in watersports! there are always "interesting" incidents and wardrobe malfunctions at speed, especially with water !!; May 28, 2010 8:46 PM
webb said...: Lots of talented women in your family. Congrats!; May 31, 2010 8:05 AM

Manifesto

What is 66 Square Feet About?

It's about gardening in tight spaces. It's about how to live with a man and a cat in a tiny apartment with a tiny terrace. It's about photos, and friends, and inspiration and blackspot on the roses. It's about food and cooking over an open flame. It's about wine. And water. And watering...And picnics. It's about seasons without and within. It's about New York, and about South Africa. It's about where I go, and what I come back to: a terrace twelve-and-three-quarters by five-and-a-quarter feet wide.

Afterwards in the street, she looks around the neighborhood. "Yes, it is certified now."

She refers to a phenomenon of moviegoing which I have called certification. Nowadays when a person lives somewhere, in a neighborhood, the place is not certified for him. More than likely he will live there sadly and the emptiness which is inside him will expand until it evacuates the entire neighborhood. But if he sees a movie which shows his very neighborhood, it becomes possible for him to live, for a time at least, as a person who is Somewhere and not Anywhere."

The Moviegoer, Walker Percy

"Die kierie kom uit Indonisie, gesny van 'n tak wat van jongs af omslinger was deur a wildevy se rank. Hulle het saam grootgeword, en die rank het sy spoor op die tak gelos. Daarom is die slinger ook oneweredig, en hier,"se hy, "by die punt van die kierie moes daar iets gebeur het - die slinger en die tak het inmekaar gevleg en 'n knoop gemaak. Die natuur het die kierie so gemaak."

"n Kieriemaker sou dit eweredig gedoen het," se ek.

"My kind," se meneer Boje, "vermy die reguit lyn."

Petra Muller, Koendoes