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It’s true that in some environments, the practice of creative skills isn’t encouraged and may be actively discouraged. In some places, schools may present such environments.If parents can provide more opportunities for this, that would help.
Continue readingPeople who have a difficult time differentiating one musical note from another may have a hard time singing on key. However, there are ways of overcoming or compensating for this. The plasticity of the brain is quite amazing.
Continue readingA balanced composition feels right. It feels stable and aesthetically pleasing. While some of its elements might be focal points and attract your eye, no one area of the composition draws your eye so much that you can’t see the…
Continue readingA balanced composition feels right. It feels stable and aesthetically pleasing. While some of its elements might be focal points and attract your eye, no one area of the composition draws your eye so much that you can’t see the…
Continue readingOrganic food isn’t only pesticide and herbicide free; it’s non-GM, contains no hormones and antibiotics, preserves the ecosystem, sustains livelihoods and even improves your mood and sex life. You are what you eat. So said French lawyer and politician Anthelme Brillat-Savarin in…
Continue readingBy Paula Wilson Top tips on how to conveniently make your food and drink more nutritious You are probably aware that the foods you buy from your local supermarket – even the fresh ones – are likely to be laden with…
Continue readingGood nutrition is considered to be an important part of maintaining good health and leading a healthy lifestyle. Therefore, every day we have to make wise food choices for a balanced dietary regime. Even though it sounds like a piece of cake,…
Continue readingThe flame series imprint was created in order to give place to “cutting-edge, ground breaking works of high merit and originality which move beyond the scope of the traditional.” Driftword ticks all those boxes and then some, as this book is given…
Continue readingSugar Free 8 Weeks to Freedom from Sugar and Carb Addiction – Karen Thomson & Kerry Hammerton with Dietician Tamzyn Campbell – Foreword by Professor Tim Noakes I was very keen to get my hands on this book because I…
Continue readingThe Bushman Winter has come – Paul John Myburgh The True Story of The Last Band of /Gwikwe Bushmen on the Great Sand Face The author spent seven years with the “People of the Great Sand Face” spiritually and physically immersed…
Continue reading“A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it.” –Edward P. Morgan Unconventional from the very beginning James Lovelock has been responsible for the significant Gaia theory that had him ridiculed for decades. But…
Continue readingFive swims in Antarctica.. 1 Reason campaigning for the establishment of Marine Protected Areas Lewis Pugh continues to rock records and draw attention to the fragile marine eco-system that are being ravaged by over-fishing, oil prospecting and man-caused oil disasters, …
Continue readingWorld Water Day World Water Day is held annually on 22 March as a means of focusing attention on the importance of freshwater and advocating for the sustainable management of freshwater resources. The international day of awareness began in 1993…
Continue readingIf ever we feel that today has been a particularly average day, and that things are not going the way we had hoped or planned, it is important to step out of one’s shoes and into another’s in order to…
Continue readingEven if one is happy for the most part, it is impossible to maintain a constant state of happiness throughout one’s life, and every now and then one might find oneself in a position of great despair, whatever the reason….
Continue readingCelebrating the Films of The Foster Brothers 15 – 22 February 2015 A giant black leopard whose entire personality was changed when he communicated with the amazing animal-whisperer Anna Breytenbach in The Foster Brothers’ latest film The Animal Communicator brought…
Continue readingHadedas are a common sight in South Africa: we know them from our gardens and their characteristic call. Here is the story of Hagedash, the singing hadeda, who meets Hagar and start a family. Their tale is told in verse…
Continue readingA hairy hippo? A lion that could fly? A crocodile prince? They all feature in this book of animal takes from Africa. Although aimed mainly at children between the ages of seven and twelve, this would also be a good…
Continue readingWhether snakes scare you or not, information about them could come in handy for those who like the outdoors. The maps, illustrations and clear descriptions will assist with the identification of common dangerous as well as harmless snakes in southern…
Continue readingThe Chelyabinsk meteor that exploded in 2013 in the atmosphere over a remote part of Siberia, made headline news internationally when its shock wave caused much damage to buildings, and injuries to more than 1500 due to flying glass and…
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