Delusionists and Illusionists – published Daily Maverick 14.12.23
A Place is a Story
There’s a world hidden in the ordinary — every path we walk, every forest we cross, every seemingly wild landscape carries a story. In “A Place Is a Story,” the author invites us deeper than the surface of rocks, sand and sea: she asks us to sense the past whispering through the trunks of ancient yellowwoods, to feel history pulse in currents that crash against cliffs, and to trace human souls in footprints pressed against quartz and ocean foam. This isn’t just a travel diary or a record of a hike. It is an odyssey of empathy, connection, memory — an invitation to remember that place and story are inseparable, and that belonging can be found not only in reaching destinations, but in honouring the lives those places have held long before we arrived.