New Ideas

Do you struggle to find new ideas in life? Right now I am reading 3 books and trying to figure out how to make quilt blocks with funky hippie-like hearts! Too much some people will say! Well, an overactive mind still searching for action!!! I should go back and ask my first teachers ever (the brief time I was there...) how they managed to keep me occupied at age 5. I know my grandmother gave me my own bowl to mix my own cake and in case you wondered.. yes! Mine also went into the oven!

All the thinking and then suddenly I'm yanked back to the reality of an email talking about the Equity laws in South Africa... I do not even want to begin to think about all the battles for jobs, resources and opportunities... why always what our skin colour looks like?

Sister, Sister why do we always cry?

Tired of talking
I am
Tired of waiting
I am
Tired of bickering
I am
Tired of events
I am
Tired
Tired
Tired

Platforms
Women can create
Every day
We have to
Wade through
Gender inequities
Racial inequities
Class inequities
Our own
Insecurities
Why not act
Become
The power monger's
Nemesis

Platforms
We have to use
From the bottom up
From the top down
Can you share my skills and I share yours
Can I open your door and you open mine
Will you mentor me, I will mentor you
Can we break through
The petty power games
Leaving us bickering
Alone
Blue

Platforms
We create
Growing daughters
Growing sons
We share my skills
Sister
We open doors
Sister
We care
Sister
Don't worry
About the blank stare
Sister
Our skills together
Opens a world
Sister
You alone at the top
Will soon lose life's gifts
Lackluster

By Simone Noemdoe in response to Ditshego Magoro -- I hear and feel you my sister. We have a long way to go, but is starts with me and you. Let them be out there and let them try to mobilise the elite, the intellectual, the talkers. Let us act here and now. At home and where we play... one day women will be free and you and I can sleep easy!
27 February 2009