WANDALUST by Wanda

Antony Osler’s Zen Dust takes you on the road in South Africa

editor — Mon, 06 May 2013 21:50:57 +0000

Poetry, politics, mindfulness, laughter, tears, the story of the Buddha and Zen wisdom weave through Antony Osler’s journey ‘home’ along the backroads of South Africa. By Wanda Hennig Antony Osler. Human rights lawyer. Sheep farmer. Husband and dad. Zen priest. First resident meditation instructor at the Buddhist Retreat Centre near Ixopo, South Africa back between 1979 and 1983. Still one of the most popular teachers on the BRC’s annual schedule. One-time monk at Mount Baldy Zen Center in California, made famous when Leonard Cohen moved in, in 1994, by which time Osler had ...

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Zen and The Art of Sheep Farming

editor — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 23:41:49 +0000

Human Rights lawyer, sheep farmer and Zen Buddhist — Antony Osler is not your average Karoo inhabitant. Story and pictures by Wanda Hennig First published Sunday Times Magazine, March 6, 1994 There’s nothing moderate about the Karoo. Relentless summer heat. Relentless winter cold. Relentless wind. And politics that run from heavy right to raging left. Somewhere close to the heart of all this is Antony Osler — novice sheep farmer, Zen Buddhist, human rights lawyer. Antony, nephew of legendary Springbok rugby flyhalf Bennie Osler and son of former Springbok centre, Stanley Osler, played first ...

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Taste for Travel: 20 Tips for Culinary Travel Adventurers

editor — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 00:54:06 +0000

A foodie panel talks Culinary Travel at the Bay Area Travel & Adventure Show. If you’re a seasoned culinary traveler, a culinary travel wanna-be or a newbie who wants to make a meal of culinary travel, read on. By Wanda Hennig “Everyone who travels is, in fact, a culinary traveler because everyone has to eat,” says Maralyn Hill, epicurean explorer and president of the International Food, Wine and Travel Writers Association. Think about it. You may favor adventure travel, responsible travel, cultural or heritage tours or trips, the solo or family travel experience ...

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Searching for Christian Grey

editor — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 08:42:24 +0000

Fifty Shades fever is alive and well — but clone the hot guy if you really want to perform a service. By Wanda Hennig First published Sunday Tribune, South Africa, September 2012 Every woman in Durban’s sex life just got hotter. Wait. Let me qualify that. Every woman in Durban who, during the past three or four months, picked up one or more volumes of EL James’s earth-shatteringly successful Fifty Shades trilogy and who has actually read it and found it a turn-on: their sex lives just got hotter. But wait. Maybe that needs a qualifier ...

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The Top 10 List from Bea Fields ‘Wild West of Blog Marketing’

editor — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 08:21:06 +0000

Persistence and regular blogging are key to SEO success and effectively marketing your business, leadership coach and social media / blogging pundit Bea Fields said by way of introducing her six-week first-of-2013 Wild West of Blog Marketing workshop. I signed on by way of a refresher, having learned loads from Fields’ Become a Blogging Maniac workshop series (which I last did back in 2010). So here’s The List of 10 Top wisdoms gleaned from Week One of the interactive webinar — personal reflections and subjective interpretations included. 10: Recommended blogs about blogging relevant ...

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RIP Dave Brubeck — Take (Eighty)-Five

editor — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 13:58:06 +0000

Dave Brubeck: December 6, 1920 – December 5, 2012. The jazz icon, world-renowned pianist and composer of jazz and classical music whose experimentation with unusual time signatures introduced millions of listeners to jazz died in Norwalk, Connecticut yesterday on the eve of his 92nd birthday. In his memory we republish an interview that first appeared in the Living Legends section of Black Diamond Living magazine in February 2005. By Wanda Hennig Concord, California. February 2005: Jazz icon Dave Brubeck’s 85th birthday is on December 6. As he did when he turned 70, ...

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Buddhist Retreat Center celebrates 30 years

editor — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 15:18:10 +0000

Letting go of thoughts; being present in the moment. Tolle — Zen — Oprah’s favorite Buddhist Pema Chödrön — Louis van Loon who founded the Buddhist Retreat Centre. They are all essentially saying the same thing — and there’s nothing devilish about it. Story and pics by Wanda Hennig First published Sunday Tribune, September-October 2010 Not so very long ago I was told by a young woman who told me she had been “born again” that I must not meditate. She said if I emptied my mind, the devil would jump in. Her words ...

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The man who built Durban’s Moses Mabhida Stadium

editor — Sun, 07 Oct 2012 18:56:26 +0000

Sydney has its opera house, San Francisco its Golden Gate and Durban has its stadium. Gerhard le Roux was lead architect on the iconic project that has transfigured the South African skyline. It’s a role he’s not going to forget. Story and pictures by Wanda Hennig This story was commissioned to be published as a chapter in an eThekwini-sponsored coffee table book on the Moses Mabhida Stadium. From a distance the monumental Moses Mabhida Stadium with its grand arch imposes its unmistakable silhouette into Durban’s urban skyline. The vision is one of ...

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Durban’s Moses Mabhida Stadium: Backgrounder

editor — Sun, 07 Oct 2012 18:51:57 +0000

Controversy remains among some of the city’s naysayers over whether Durban’s Moses Mabhida Stadium should have been built. Ivor Daniel, former president of the KwaZulu-Natal Institute of Architects, gives some perspectives. By Wanda Hennig This piece was commissioned to be published in an eThekwini-sponsored coffee table book on the Moses Mabhida Stadium as a sidebar to an interview with lead architect Gerhard le Roux. When South Africa first bid for the 2010 World Cup and would-be host cities announced their stadium plans, Durban’s was for an expanded Kings Park (rugby stadium). “It’s a stadium ...

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The Art of Sex

editor — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 14:33:43 +0000

Inspired by a fruitless search for sensual lubricants, Wanda Hennig discovers a boudoir boutique that sells gear for classy bedroom escapades. First published Sunday Tribune, South Africa October 24, 2010 Had you told me, two short weeks ago, that I’d be writing a story comparing a sex shop started by women in San Francisco with a boudoir boutique started by women in Umhlanga, South Africa — the story inspired by a dreaded tube of KY jelly, the iceberg lettuce of lubricants — I’d have said, “What have you been smoking”? But there it ...

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