Gernus Oosthuizen

Wallflower 🌼
Wordwizard🧙‍♂️
Writer 👓
with moondust in his backpocket🌛🌌
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[Maria Popova @themarginalian]

“To love without knowing how to love wounds the person we love.”

The great Zen teacher and peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh, who turns 95 today, on how to love https://t.co/cmYIXZO7pK

[Maria Popova @themarginalian]

“It appears like an innocuous illness. Monotony, boredom, death. Millions live like this (or die like this) without knowing it.”
https://t.co/f4HeAGvjNW

[Gernus Oosthuizen @GabrielOos]

It's enough for this wide-eyed wanderer
That we've got this far 🏞️👣 @ Jonkershoek Nature Reserve https://t.co/t3C4ymKy8q

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Just posted a photo https://t.co/X4oQYb7qJF

[Gernus Oosthuizen @GabrielOos]

This magical creature is celebrating another year of life, so I'll just leave this here to show how much I care...and how comfortable she clearly looks receiving it. 🌌 https://t.co/OwrvrwpK05

[Gernus Oosthuizen @GabrielOos]

The "I've been meaning to visit" picture - 5 years late edition. Yet, it was like we saw each other yesterday. ☕ 🌌 @ East London, Eastern Cape https://t.co/1fecShf0fn

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This absolutely transported me...

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How Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West (the inspiration for "Orlando") fell in love – the real-life story behind what Vita's son called “the longest and most charming love letter in literature” https://t.co/1K5RPuoGe5

[Gernus Oosthuizen @GabrielOos]

Ring https://t.co/QObll29STr

[Maria Popova @themarginalian]

“The body provides something for the spirit to look after and use.”

The stirring letters computing pioneer Alan Turing, born on this day in 1912, wrote to his soul mate's mother when his love, Christopher Morcom, died https://t.co/lR10FOm24X #PrideMonth2020

[Gernus Oosthuizen @GabrielOos]

The tavern was a cacaphonous symphony of drunken shouting and revelry... Any sober man would wonder how the good spirit could exist, but no sober man found himself part of that company. Read more https://t.co/NmuzOq1o8b
#flashfiction #shortstory #fantasy #blogging #bloggerstribe

[Maria Popova @themarginalian]

#PrideMonth with the almost unbearably lovely "Jerome by Heart" https://t.co/XkwP492oW9

[Gernus Oosthuizen @GabrielOos]

On Realising One Might Be an Introvert https://t.co/dOjZB0Howk

[Maria Popova @themarginalian]

Who would Herman Melville have been, what would literature be, if he were not so hopelessly, heartbreakingly in love with Nathaniel Hawthorne in an era before we could speak of LGBT Pride? Happy #PrideMonth! https://t.co/ebng64EjLY

[Gernus Oosthuizen @GabrielOos]

The wolf knelt on his haunches to drink from the lake, disturbing the peace with the thirsty plunge of his muzzle... "Strange that the taste of blood never quenches my thirst," thought the wolf.
Read more📖 Link below 🔗
https://t.co/ddVFPKsTYh
#flashfiction #Writer #blog

[Maria Popova @themarginalian]

“People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.”

Emerson, born on this day in 1803, on talent vs. character, our resistance to change, and the key to true personal growth https://t.co/Z5kym4oPGf

[Maria Popova @themarginalian]

The Sound of Silence – an illustrated serenade to the art of listening to your inner voice amid the noise of modern life https://t.co/gOXfmKDXgo

[Disney Animation @DisneyAnimation]

“Pink Lemonade” #AtHomeWithOlaf created at home by Hyrum Osmond. Voiced from home by Josh Gad. #DisneyMagicMoments

[Gernus Oosthuizen @GabrielOos]

A terrible gloom descended over the cavemouth as Tystnad made his way into the dark... an omen of foreboding... he felt his courage waver...
The flash fiction saga continues 🌠
#flashfiction #shortstory #creativewriting #blog #fantasy #waysofthewallflower
https://t.co/2DHaCfIH37

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Seneca on resilience and tranquility of mind in the face of, well, life https://t.co/XVra41GibI

[Gernus Oosthuizen @GabrielOos]

Worth the read... #UniverseInVerse

https://t.co/RYAwDOTBKV