Have You Heard?

I was trawling the net and came across a true story that really made me think. A man sat at a metro station in Washington DC and started to play the violin. It was a cold January morning. He played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time, since it was rush hour,

This is artist Sonia Strumpfer and she is opening up her home…

When you walk through the home of Eastern Cape artist Sonia Strumpfer you find yourself surrounded by vibrant, yet calming work that sits easy on the walls in her home. She herself has a calming vibrancy about her and a personality that draws one in. I love the fact that at the end of the

My 73 year old Mother in Law Facebooks!

  Hi this is Tania and we’re talking creativity. If Facebook were a country it would be the 3rd largest in the world! I am always on the lookout for things to comment on in my moments with you. Right now I am in awe at the creative developments of technology. Let’s take Facebook, literally

Life can be Bumpy

  Hi, it’s Tania and we are talking creativity Life in general can be a bumpy ride and 2011 has gotten off to quite a start for many of us. I sat writing this piece in the early hours of the morning and to be honest, wondered if there was anything that I could share

Thirsty?

Hi this is Tania Ahlfeldt and we’re talking creativity The zany and very alive author SARK advocates succulent living, now I have many succulent plants growing in my garden, but succulent living? The word succulent means juicy, moist, tender and luscious. The opposite is parched, dry, dehydrated and thirsty. We all want to live lives

Delicious Christ mas!

Hi it’s Tania and we’re talking creativity Christmas excites me; it’s an excuse to celebrate! It’s an excuse to hail a king, an excuse to feast, to give and be generous. There’s the fun of dragging a tree into the house and decorating it, the fun of flashing lights, the awesome experience of the innocent

Are You Feeling Generous?

Hi it’s Tania  and we’re talking creativity. Recently I heard the saying that generosity is learned when you have nothing. Without scarcity we cannot truly know what having enough is all about. Take the loaves and fishes for example. It was only in the place of extreme need that the miracle could take place. Those

A Beautiful Nap

This is Tania Ahlfeldt and we’re talking creativity. Italy’s creative giant, Leonardo Da Vinci’s  had an insatiably curious approach to life. He was one of the most creative people ever to have lived! The word curious is an eagerness to know something. It’s about being inquisitive and inquiring. It’s about probing, questioning and nosing your

More Feeling the Love

Hi, this is Tania and we’re talking creativity. What makes you”feel the LOVE”? My friend Mike uses this term whenever he gets that warm feeling in his heart brought on by a simple connection. It’s the simple connections that we as humans crave. It’s the connection that I crave! I’ve spent time thinking about what

Feeling the Love

Hi this is Tania and we’re talking creativity. I have a friend called Mike and ever so often he talks about “feeling the love”. It could be when we share a cappuccino or I’ve sent a bowl of soup to the office via my husband Al. Simple things make Mike “feel the love”. As I