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What we need now is kindness
15 May 202026 May 2020 Janette Bennett

What we need now is kindness

Coronavirus, Life, Reinvention, Writing

Where is the acknowledgement that we are frightened and in pain? Why are we not comforting each other? This reality demands a new kind of intelligence from us. No-one alive has been here before. Let me rephrase: unless you are

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A tale of two viruses
18 March 202021 October 2020 Janette Bennett

A tale of two viruses

Coronavirus, Life, Writing

About 30 years ago, when the first stories about HIV and AIDS emerged, I was a health reporter on the Sunday Tribune in Durban, the main city of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. This province initially seemed to be hardest hit as

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It’s a 7 thing
14 November 20197 December 2019 Under the milkwood

It’s a 7 thing

Reinvention, Sustainable living, Writing

Seven. It shows up everywhere, from major religions to popular book titles. Naturally, the days of the week, the wonders of the world, the continents of the Earth and the colours of the rainbow are arranged into seven. It’s the

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Autumn in the global village
5 May 201224 November 2019 Under the milkwood

Autumn in the global village

Garden, Technology, Writing

Today, we all live in the “global village” that Canadian professor Marshall McLuhan first spoke about in the ’60s. That’s why people like me can work from remote places like this for people anywhere. In this world made small by

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