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		<title>Five Minute Friday, plus OMG, She&#8217;s Alive!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 07:28:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So it&#8217;s been a while&#8230; *crickets* Life has been crazy, beautiful, amazing, scary and busy since the move to Cape Town. I promise to write a little more about that later. For now, I am once again linking up with Gypsy Mama, Lisa-Jo Baker (who often makes me cry and always makes me think), for [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=osabi.wordpress.com&#038;blog=18169499&#038;post=287&#038;subd=osabi&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sometimes I wish it wasn&#8217;t so hard to be a mother</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 14:08:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes my child is so badly behaved and demanding and selfish and I-don’t-care-that-you-have-needs that I want to run from the house screaming at the top of my voice. I want to run as far as I can, to place that is quiet like a Bjork song and empty like fog. Someplace just my own, where [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=osabi.wordpress.com&#038;blog=18169499&#038;post=282&#038;subd=osabi&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Light tomorrow with today!&#8221; Elizabeth Barrett Browning</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 11:50:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another Five Minute Friday. Prompt: Light When we first decided to move to Cape Town, people warned me about the weather. About how cold and wet and dank and miserable winter in the Mother City can be. So of course we decided to move just in time for winter. Well, it’s not quite winter yet. [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=osabi.wordpress.com&#038;blog=18169499&#038;post=277&#038;subd=osabi&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bravery in the absence of fear isn&#8217;t really bravery at all</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 09:18:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Bran thought about it. “Can a man still be brave if he&#8217;s afraid?” “That is the only time a man can be brave,” his father told him.” ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones A Five Minute Friday prompt from The Gypsy Mama that I finally feel brave enough to post. I did write this on [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=osabi.wordpress.com&#038;blog=18169499&#038;post=270&#038;subd=osabi&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The legacy of women, as illustrated by the handmade revolution and my personal revelation</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:18:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I come from a family of women who are really talented crafters. My grandmother was an amazing professional dressmaker for most of her life (making everything from wedding and matric dance dresses, to teen Goth gear). My mom has always produced the most incredible knitted creations and – having tried almost every craft out there [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=osabi.wordpress.com&#038;blog=18169499&#038;post=266&#038;subd=osabi&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Catholicism is bad for your knees</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 07:33:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have horrible knees. Really, really horrible knees. They’re fat, and flat (who has flat knees!?), and strangely misshapen. They’re pale, and pasty, and the skin is a strange texture. I blame bad genes and years of Catholicism. These knees have not seen the light of day (or night) for a long, long time. And [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=osabi.wordpress.com&#038;blog=18169499&#038;post=258&#038;subd=osabi&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m not a slacker. I&#8217;m a sociological post-materialist.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 20:06:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not all who wander are lost – JRR Tolkien I’ve been back at work since the beginning of the year and have enjoyed my job and the people I’ve worked with. But I have to come clean and say that I really don’t like working. And I don’t mean in the ‘work can be such [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=osabi.wordpress.com&#038;blog=18169499&#038;post=250&#038;subd=osabi&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Desperate times, desperate protesters</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 14:27:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was in tears today as I watched the TV coverage and looked at these images of today’s ANC Youth League demonstration outside Luthuli House in Johannesburg. The visuals of attacks on media, riot police, water cannons and stun grenades are so reminiscent of the very bad old days that I am filled with despair. [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=osabi.wordpress.com&#038;blog=18169499&#038;post=246&#038;subd=osabi&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Be Still, My Beating Heart</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 15:11:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you’ve visited this blog before, you know that my favourite blogger, The Gypsy Mama runs a challenge every Friday called ‘Five Minute Friday’. She throws out a prompt and the rest of us, “stop, drop and write for five minutes”. I think that I&#8217;m also supposed to do some fiddly things with link-backs, but I haven’t [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=osabi.wordpress.com&#038;blog=18169499&#038;post=240&#038;subd=osabi&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Yesterday, today and tomorrow: Holding on to the moments</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 14:31:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday: I remember how chubby my son’s fingers once were. I remember counting those tiny fingers over and over again as I sat in awe of the perfect little person that I had helped create and bring into this world. I remember how toothless his grin was, and how I worried that he was so [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=osabi.wordpress.com&#038;blog=18169499&#038;post=231&#038;subd=osabi&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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