Darkangelyaya

The word, not to mention the diagnosis, instills fear into the hearts of most, and panic into all friends and family affected by it.

I am a Breastcancer survivor.
In 2010 I was diagnosed with Stage IV Breastcancer - and given the very poor prognosis of a 30% chance of survival / 6 months to live.

I had no medical aid, and due to a string of catastrophes I did not have the financial back-up to pay outright for treatment (At that stage costs would be around R26 ...

The thread about Net Income Solutions (Defencex) was started a couple of weeks ago on TheForumSA.co.za by a member who wanted to know if it's a scam or not. Lots of comments were bandied about, also by myself.

It was an interesting 'coincidence' when we picked up that the bank accounts had been frozen in February.

But I was not prepared for the sheer volume of people invested in this scheme!

I follow the news on this with a fair amount of interest, ...

As a passionate and possibly delusional, overenthusiastic animal lover, I have rescued my share of strays. And their sad stories told through their liquid eyes always break my heart.

I have often wondered how much animals really understand of our interaction with them. Sometimes it seems that what we interpret as a response might just be the reaction we would have liked, and not the one the animal actually intended. We are interpreting their communications through our own frame of ...

You Are

You are the life I inhale
you are my featherless flight
you are the stories I regale
you are the sky in my night
you are those most ancient of memories
you are the stirring of my soul
you are the feast I consume
you are the fire when I'm cold
you are the blood in my veins
you are the dreams in my heart
you are the one that remains
my lifesong's purest refrain

Copyright: Carina 2008

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I have been in this specific line of business for many, many years. Yet people continue to amaze me with their absolute obtuse disregard for common decency, not to mention their refusal to use either the fleshy decorations proudly displayed on the side of their heads, or the grey matter between them.

Recently I was appointed by the Trustees of a Body Corporate to do some tree felling (removal of two dangerous trees, and pruning of several others to render them safe) and maintenance. ...

Every time we say goodbye
I walk that sad slow walk
Believing the lie
The one that says we’ll see each other soon
The one where your body flies me to the moon
Where your lips drown me in an ocean of fire
And your hips map the road to ultimate desire
Every time I leave you I get broken
In ever smaller pieces with every
Promise that we’ve never even spoken
I cannot read or write or think

As often as ...