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Faithful friends

Friendship often starts early childhoodFaithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful. The best friend you can ever have is a friend who does not always agree with everything you say. You need someone with a different world view, who sees things differently, and is not afraid to speak their mind, even if it opposes your viewpoint. You are in bad company, if you do not have someone who has the guts to put you straight, when you are going off track. A Read More →

Faces of Hope Foundation post-mortem

This is open letter to Leonora Moore, a personal friend of mine, who introduced me to Kerrin Black, the founder of the Faces of Hope Foundation. The essential background to this is that I was introduced by Leo to assist Kerrin Black in growing her primary business, Talent Finders, an online booking agency for performers and other people in the entertainment industry. However, my focus shifted when Kerrin asked me to help execute a fund raising event for her Faces of Foundation. The whole project turned out to be one of my worst experiences in Read More →

Breakfast with Angela Ludek, aka WildAngel

About 3 weeks I met someone with whom I believe I share a spiritual connection. I cannot explain it in words. Freud came close when he described this type of feeling as uncanny - strange or mysterious, esp. in an unsettling way. And Carl Jung helped me understand how we met when he in turn coined the phrase synchronicity - the simultaneous occurrence of events that appear significantly related but have no discernible causal connection. Well what am I going on about here? Let me take you back to the days of SABC1's Simunye Grooves days. Angela Ludek was Read More →

How To Win Friends in the 21st century

How To Win Friends And Influence People classic book by Dale CarnegieThis section is based on the famous Dale Carnegie book, although I'm not going to give you the advice from his book because it is outdated when you consider the tremendous changes in society over the last 30 years, especially since the feminist revolution. So many people who reach 30+ complain that all their friends are married or in long term relationships. And so they do not have anyone to Read More →

Save their face (and their friendship)

How to Talk to Anyone: 101 Little Communication Tricks for Big Success in RelationshipsThis is a tip from Leil Lowndes, a prolific author of relationship, communication books. What has become valuable to me is the female friends I have in my life who are actively looking on my behalf for my next girlfriend and trying to introduce me to them. And this is happening more often. And even though I don't need the help any more it is Read More →
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