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[caption id="attachment_12643" align="alignnone" ] The Sentinel Hout Bay[/caption]

My help is in the mountain

Where I take myself to heal

The earthly wounds

That people give to me.

I find a rock with sun on it

And a stream where the water runs gentle

And the trees which one by one give me company.

So must I stay for a long time

Until I have grown from the rock

And the stream is running through me

And I cannot tell myself from one tall tree.

Then I know that nothing touches me

Nor makes me run away.

My help is in the mountain

That I take away with me.

(from Hollering Sun, 1972

Nancy Wood 1936-2013) [caption id="attachment_12641" align="alignnone" ] Jonkershoek[/caption] [caption id="attachment_12640" align="alignnone" ] Hout Bay[/caption] [caption id="attachment_12642" align="alignnone" ] Table Mountain from Devil's Peak[/caption] [caption id="attachment_12639" align="alignnone" ] Castle Rock from Kirstenbosch Gardens[/caption]