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From Belinda’s Reflections

“Highlights … were the surprising moments, the unexpected
things, Dave’s pyromania, Glenn’s and Ethan’s impromptu

piano … the sharing and the camaraderie … and having

experienced the thoughtfulness and the maturity of the
young people in our group … has filled me with such hope …
for the future … if it’s in the hands of young people like these,

I do think the world will be ok …A listening attitude is
something visceral; it comes from the gut, it’s an attitude

with which you approach life, and I think it was quite an
extraordinary group … with everybody having an instinctive

sense of that listening attitude. Listening to ourselves, our

own inner voices, listening to one another, listening to
nature, listening to what the experts who talked to us were
saying – that was quite a special experience for me, to be

amidst all of that and to witness that synergy. Being a scholar
of literature … one of the wonderful experiences for me was

… [being] alongside Athol Fugard’s Boesman and Lena and
their harrowing journey across Swartkops and the Salt Flats…

traipsing through Groendal it was as if I could see Dalene
Matthee’s elephant staring at me through the trees and

across the streams … And then seeing the whales breach at
Schoenies felt like a very deep personal message to me.”

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