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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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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, …