In the tradition of the past months/year, once again a season of solitude in the holy dwelling of the Lord. It’s the season of Lent, a season of fasting, praying, sacrificial giving & preparing for all that is yet to come. 40 days, a period God has often used in biblical times to transform individuals [...]
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The Season of Lent
Posted in From the Inside Out: Spirit & Self, Time to Bloom: Fleur's everyday good, tagged christianity, fast, lent, lenten fast, my life, spiritual growth, spirituality on 28 February, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Chick Flicks Season
Posted in Movies, Sounds & Syllables, Time to Bloom: Fleur's everyday good, tagged chick flicks, hugh grant, juno, lars and the real girl, Movies, music & lyrics, romance on 11 February, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I know, I promised to share my foodlog for these past days but it has to wait another couple of days, just too much to do. So let me just share a quick random note with you guys: I am having a horrible, horrible chick flick time. It is very hard for me to admit [...]
Falling in love with myself – again
Posted in From the Inside Out: Spirit & Self, Time to Bloom: Fleur's everyday good, tagged born again, chantal-fleur sandjon, christianity, cinn sandjon, my life, scripture, spiritual growth, spiritual healing on 3 February, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
[Post # 50 - of course it had to be "deep", i.e. deeply personal. But, hey, I know that only those who truly care will read through all of this!) The Beginning The first time I set foot on South African soil was exactly two yrs ago at the beginning of February 2007. I had [...]
The True South African Danger
Posted in Time to Bloom: Fleur's everyday good, tagged crickets, my life, parktown prawns, south africa on 2 February, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This is totally, totally random but… … I’ve got a cricket in my living room downstairs! I identified the position of said cricket as underneath the TV table. I fled upstairs to google crickets (the same way I fled upstairs last week after encounter with small scorpion in front of my door – google told [...]
The Other Pretty Boxes
Posted in Time to Bloom: Fleur's everyday good, tagged blogroll, blogs, links on 31 January, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Just a quick note: I’ve started to work on the blogroll & finally put it online. Just too many beautiful online spots that I’ve got to share with you guys… Will add on during the next days & whenever I come across something new. & ya, I know, it is not nice to box ppl, [...]
Waiting for the Rainbow
Posted in Time to Bloom: Fleur's everyday good, tagged break-ups, love, my life, spiritual growth on 9 January, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Yupp, still alive, still out here, still blessed. I’ve been a miserable blogger these past weeks & (what’s much worse) a mediocre friend to a lot of my folks. It’s just, this yr has started with an end for me. Releasing someone from my life that has accompanied me on this exciting part of my [...]
The Ride into 2009
Posted in From the Inside Out: Spirit & Self, Music, Sounds & Syllables, Time to Bloom: Fleur's everyday good, tagged music, my life, sheila chandra, spiritual growth on 21 December, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Sorry for being so quiet for such a long time once again. Just getting used to Christmas in summer, to being on my own, to maturing & growing in Christ, in myself, in Joburg. A lot happening within me & it becomes clearer each day that 2009 is going to be my year at the [...]
Abantu Afrowear
Posted in Azania from a street-level window, Beauty Beyond Shelves, Black Germania, I write what I like, Time to Bloom: Fleur's everyday good, tagged abantu afrowear, diaspora, fashion, south africa on 4 December, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s still a work in progress but felt like sharing South African fashion & fashion statements with my folks back home. Hence, the birth of Abantu Afrowear. Whatever I find on my notorious shopping spreads & what I can’t buy for myself, well, you’ll find it on this homepage. Ready to be shipped over the [...]
In The Morning Sun…
Posted in From the Inside Out: Spirit & Self, Music, Sounds & Syllables, Time to Bloom: Fleur's everyday good, tagged gratitude, music, my life, south africa, zamajobe on 29 November, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s a beautiful journey to get to know yourself fully, get to know God within you & the body He has given you… Woke up this morning, a Saturday morning, at 5.20am – without an alarm clock. My body pumped with energy, the sun coming in through the window, greeting me. I hurt my ankle [...]
Still fly, fly, fly
Posted in Time to Bloom: Fleur's everyday good, tagged my life on 21 November, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Big update soon soon. Just to say, am still up & kicking. Just no more internet at home & now on leave in sunny Umhlanga. Watched a massacre of flying ants in the street lights last night & heard a concert of mating frogs. The little things, folks, the little things…
