by admin | Aug 13, 2021 | Uncategorized
Saturday was a sunny, windless, breathless day at the Cape. The kind of day when you throw on a scarf and light sweater and head off to walk barefooted on Grotto Beach; or take a languid kayak paddle on the invitingly flat, Kleinrivier lagoon; or perhaps throw on the...
by admin | Jun 14, 2021 | Uncategorized
For the past 16 years I have been teaching together with my Norwegian colleague, Kristin Flood. Together we have developed a wide scope of workshops and courses, always with the mandate to use our tool of this mysterious writing process, to assist people to connect to...
by admin | Jun 13, 2021 | Uncategorized
Born in South Africa, I lived in Canada for 30 years, then returned to be a part of the “New South Africa” when Nelson Mandela became president. I’m born in Johannesburg. I’m married (for a lot of years) to a man I knew for one week. We have two children and...
by admin | Jun 8, 2021 | Uncategorized
“Close your eyes and smile” Listenbear teaches Children how to bear the unbearable using a gentle, loving meditation practice Merle learned from the Vietnamese Buddhist teacher Thich Nhat Hanh I wrote my first children’s book “Dream it Do it” for my 3 year old...
by merlelevin | Jun 1, 2021 | Uncategorized
Apologies. I can’t be long. I need to buy a drum. There are no djembe drums from West Africa, looking for new owners in my new, rural community. Since I arrived home last night, my fingers are tapping everything in sight – kitchen counter, bed sheets, oatmeal pot half...
by merlelevin | May 26, 2021 | Uncategorized
Inspired by the book “The gentle art of Swedish Death Cleaning” By Margareta Magnusson. I came to the book on döstädning after a conversation with some of my Norwegian students. I was impressed by how easily the topic of death cleaning slipped...
