de deur (fragment)

Mira wordt om onbegrijpelijke redenen kwaad op een deur in Kaapstad. Het zet mij aan tot licht ironische gedachten over borstvoeding, schrijven, alcohol drinken.  deur Joke Debaere | 1 Maart 2002 TO READ THE FULL STORY-and  receive regular new releases, as well as many morecatalogued videos, music tracks, writings, visual art, etc go here for …

on educating a toddler at the piano (extract)

thoughts around music education on occasion of Mira's first musical expression on the piano (barely) by HA!Man | 27 June 2020  TO READ THE FULL ESSAY -and  receive regular new releases, as well as many morecatalogued videos, music tracks, writings, visual art, etc go here for more info &SUBSCRIBE

al dat (fragment)

on ways a small child can bring healing to a big human (in Dutch) by Joke Debaere | 24 Feb 2020 TO READ THE FULL POEM -and  receive regular new releases, as well as many morecatalogued videos, music tracks, writings, visual art, etc go here for more info &SUBSCRIBE

virus-krisis-piessus (voorsmakie)

Mira verjaar en die aarde staan uiteindelik stil met die hulp van 'n piepklein organismetjie. Selfs die heiliges bly nie onaangeraak nie. deur  HA!Man  | 26 Maart 2020 TO READ THE FULL POEM - and  receive regular new releases, as well as many more catalogued videos, music tracks, writings, visual art, etc go here for …

your mama, your papa, are fighting their share (preview)

while you just turned two years old, so much is happening, that one day will be a story by Joke Debaere | 31 March 2020 TO READ THE FULL POEM - and  receive regular new releases, as well as many more catalogued videos, music tracks, writings, visual art, etc SUBSCRIBE here view platform

roadside rest (extract)

driving out north towards Cathcart with Mira. Stop. Picnic site. Look. Rest. by HA!Man | 11 April 2020 https://youtu.be/wAogN7kZpdI TO WATCH FULL VIDEO - and  receive regular new releases, as well as many more catalogued videos, music tracks, writings, visual art, etc SUBSCRIBE here view platform

flowering in times of the Coronavirus

Dear all So here we are where no one thought we would be just a short while back. I myself had to go through a whole process of coming to terms with the realities around this particular virus and the pandemic it brought about. One aspect that took me off my high horse was the …

dirty soils and secrets

emotional heap-ups. intense moments, coming and going. each one worthy of a book, a song, a speech, a plan of action. and yet our lives stream on. burning to say something. not knowing how and where. social media. online subscription post. newsletter. stage.. well, now the moment has arrived. just to say. say it all, say it all since the time of Brett Kavanaugh...

hey dude I’ve got something to tell you!

Dear all An imaginary conversation I had with “dude” recently hey dude, I need to tell you something. dude? who’s your dude? ag man*, just someone that has an ear right now I’m your dude, but keep it snappy ag* thanks. listen, I have this new online thing! online thing. what do you mean online …

catching up

Dear all I sit in a flat in Vigevano, near Milan, Italy. Joke just went out to catch a moment of writing while Mira is asleep. I do not have an extra adaptor for Italian plugs, so this laptop’s battery will switch off at some point but I MUST write this newsletter now. It is …