- Relishing the dignity of chapel services and glorious choir singing
- understanding the faith tradition was used for justifying the selfish creation of selective-dehumanization/ domination/ oppression/
- majestic colonial architecture
- housing the apartheid government.
- "Ugliness can live in beauty
- right in wrong"
- "The philosophical principle of Yin and Yang evolved into the idea that all things in the universe exist as inseparable and contradictory opposites. Or pairs of equal opposites that attract and complement each other. Less like 'opposing forces,' and more 'complimentary forces.' Think ‘balance’, not conflict."
- "With Eleanor as her best friend, life at St Anne’s isn’t so bad."
- "The whole point of Eleanor is that she is different. Natasha doesn’t want Eleanor to change."
Push/Pull; Yin/Yang; So many layers ...
- Gratitude for an excellent private-education scholarship, and
- for it's significant cost not being a financial burden on family.
- Profound appreciation,
- while paying the emotional cost of being in a social fishbowl.
- Appreciating the "private-sector advantage"
- ignoring—in deed, challenging—the apartheid-government’s curriculum.
- Relishing the dignity of chapel services and glorious choir singing
- understanding the faith tradition was used for justifying the selfish creation of selective-dehumanization/ domination/ oppression/
- majestic colonial architecture
- housing the apartheid government.
- "Ugliness can live in beauty
- right in wrong"
- "The philosophical principle of Yin and Yang evolved into the idea that all things in the universe exist as inseparable and contradictory opposites. Or pairs of equal opposites that attract and complement each other. Less like 'opposing forces,' and more 'complimentary forces.' Think ‘balance’, not conflict."
- "With Eleanor as her best friend, life at St Anne’s isn’t so bad."
- "The whole point of Eleanor is that she is different. Natasha doesn’t want Eleanor to change."
🙏 As Walt Whitman says, we contain multitudes. Humans are complex and contradictory.