66 Square Feet: Down and dirty

Friday, August 24, 2012

Down and dirty

Bit of a rough week. So these matches were helpful. I like matches. They helped to cook a chicken.

Come back for the butterfly count and giveway of a year's subscription Wilder Quarterly on Monday.

And may your sailing be smooth.

5 comments:

elizabethAugust 24, 2012 at 11:33 AM
sorry for the rough week. Hoping for better!
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BeenceAugust 24, 2012 at 3:39 PM
May there always be matches in times of darkness. And braaing. :-) Next week will be much better. It always is.
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georgieAugust 24, 2012 at 6:14 PM
Just looked at the Wilder Quarterly you linked. Very nice!
Hope your weekend is phenomenally wonderful and full of happiness (much better than the past week).
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SaraAugust 24, 2012 at 6:49 PM
thanks for sharing the earthbound wisdom. Love hearing from you.
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AnonymousAugust 26, 2012 at 10:07 AM
get thee a chimney starter.
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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.

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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