#LadyAmstel #TheLanding The newly dumped rocks, which seemed to serve no real purpose whatsoever, are in fact an extra variable complicating the eternal battle between the Dutch and the Water.

One can only imagine that the survival of this relationship depends on a fair exchange of flotation devices for the homebound trip.

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#LadyAmstel & #TheLanding welcome boats stacked to the gunnels with high-school graduates drinking heavily to forget that they must now relinquish the relative freedom of adolescence to spend their adult lives shackled to unattainable benchmarks, chasing KPIs at work and at home.

The river is refilled twice weekly.

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#LadyAmstel & #TheLanding This couple had no idea what they were doing, but they weathered the chaos without frustration, as if they had no expectations about the quality of the outcome.

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Friends sometimes remark that they find my portraits of #LadyAmstel somewhat repetitive and even boring, which is understandable in the over-excited visual smorgasbord we inhabit, but what they do not realise is that our serpentine queen has a surreal sidekick called #TheLanding.

#LadyAmstel sees the new year blazing in and hears the wind wishing you all peaceful, sheltered, loving and adventurous 2024.

Even your ugly sides are beautiful.

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The water is cold, but we must strip down and cross the river in order to be reunited.

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What we know for sure is that there is a system of tunnels between the river and the sea, which is where love and freedom have sought refuge, surrounded by fertile soil where new ideas can take root, grow and flourish without fear. #LadyAmstel

On reflection, having grown up under an apartheid regime brings with it the benefit of knowing that another world is possible and preferable and worth struggling for.

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The cynic who always accompanies me on my walks asks: “So would you give your life for a ward full of premature infants?” And I stare at the river, watching the bodies of all those who gave their lives in vain floating by.

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She almost slipped by unnoticed today, because my mind is so full of thoughts, writing and war.

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Nice to see my point-of-view gaining popularity.

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