Thanks for permission to put this up on my website. Now up and, as I have readers (at the last count) in 61 different countries, it should bring more people to your sunny shores.

Ampers (As in Ampersand, not as in “nearly”)

Your article was forwarded to me and I hugely enjoyed it. In fact I can almost feel the burden of recent news evaporating from my slumped shoulders. I’ve really reached the point that if I hear one more journalist talk about the Global Financial Crisis and job losses in hushed tones I’m going to start screaming and set fire to myself.

I am currently living in Australia (I did enjoy the analogy in one of your posts about being invited to the biggest jol in the world and spending the night dancing with your mother – it is a bit like that I have to admit), and maybe its the cricket but we really do seem to be wallowing in bad news – and bad news recreates itself. People are walking around scared and deflated.

When I look back I think that one of the most upbeat times in my life was living in Joburg in the ’80′s. Now if you remember this was also a time of recession, uncertainty and international companies pulling up stumps and leaving us to it and the future looked pretty grim. But we pulled out of the nose dive with humour and creativity.

I’ve decided to give up newspapers and watching television, buy myself a house in Cape Town, drink some wine and look at the mountain.

Thanks for lifting my mood today.

Keryn

I was pleased to see your suggestion number 1: Read A New Earth. I’ve read it and I have the audio book in my car. Also bought Power of Now. I recommend it to everyone. It’s my goal to become more & more conscious & live in the now.

Here’s to a new earth in our time

Cheers, Dawn.

You have the ability to highlight the reasons why we are humans – we sometimes forget that in our race to be the best

I am so inspired – I am spending the weekend reading all those books you mentioned, in a B&B in Langa – in traditional Zulu gear