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Thick glossy cookery books entice me 

Mandy Mitchells  

Thick glossy cookery books entice me       the heavier the better         Layered with tangible ingredients and places Like apricot and prickly pear, kudu and Karoo        With recipes that read like poetry under my fingertips          I gorge my senses in bookshops               absorbing pictures of loaded tables and exquisite gardens           heavy with the luxury of time        I don’t quite know what they give to me              except                    maybe                    wistfulness     The sense of wanting to be somewhere else                  Far from traffic, concrete, the rush of ordinary lives          The reality of scrambled eggs                  or two-minute noodles.

(photographs by the very talented vanessa grobler) 

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very true:

"Isn't it time we acknowledge that no human being with any passion and deeply held beliefs ever emerged flawless into the world? And that if every mistake, misstep, boneheaded decision, or error in judgment becomes an automatic disqualifier for public service, then we're going to be left with a political landscape filled with nothing but wrinkle-free, foible-free, passionless automatons who have never made a mistake because they never took the risk of having an original thought."

arianna huffington 

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"Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else." 

James M. Barrie

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"stories, like food, lose their flavour when cooked in a hurry"

- ngugi wa thiong'o

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"there's a little crack in everything and that's where the light gets in"

- leonard cohen

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"there is more to life than increasing its speed"

- mohandas ghandi

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"Sometimes I think heaven must be one continuous unexhausted reading"

- Virginia Woolf