Particle
Jacques de Villiers – writing quest: Article 39/365 God: Hello Particle, I’m about to send you out into the world. What is it you’d like to accomplish on the journey you’re about to undertake? Me: I’d like to teach about resilience, love and forgiveness. God: Particle, these are truly noble pursuits. Are you sure this is what […]
Don’t Help. Love
Article 9/365 of Jacques’s Writing Quest The one sure-fire way to turn friends into strangers is by trying to rescue them. A friend and I were having a chat the other day, and we realised that we both suffered from the same affliction. We’re rescuers. We like to ride in on our horse like a […]
Try the lexicon of love
A number of people have asked me why I stopped sending out my newsletter. To be honest, I’ve had a ‘dark night of the soul’ experience and retreated into my cave to lick my wounds and make sense of my world again. Those panic attacks I wrote about had turned into depression (I can say […]
Do something scary Saturday: Dads connect with your family today. Now!
If you’re a dad and husband. (And, a human): Let’s tell the mother of our children how deeply we appreciate her for doing most of the heavy lifting when it comes to bringing them up and teaching them how to become awesome humans. Tell her that you love ( ♥ ͜ʖ ♥) her. Let’s look […]
Do You Think The World Doesn’t Love You?
The other day a friend of mine made a statement that gave me a moment to pause. “Do you know what your problem is, Jacques?” “You think that the world doesn’t love you?” I was shocked. In those eight words he’d summed up my view of the world. But so what? My view is no […]