Contributors

Please send us your contributions  – even if you’re not necessarily an aspiring writer, but you have some wisdom to share, or a meaningful story to tell, and if you like the type of stuff that we write about.

Contact us at sonja.wisdomcentre@gmail.com

 

More about our current contributors:

Sonja van Wyk takes life as it comes but tries to find some meaning and wisdom every day. When she was a little girl, her mother tried to teach her the principle of “wear your knowledge like you wear your watch. You never tell the time unless you’re asked for it”. She’s never mastered that particular piece of wisdom and goes through life talking to people, sharing whatever she knows or thinks, just in case they might have wondered about something but didn’t even know it. She would provide the question and answer in one go. It’s all very economical – it saves everybody a lot of time. She has a parallel blog going  for the more spiritually minded.

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Chris Terblancheis a businessman who heads up the Joshua Group based in Johannesburg. He has however always had a keen interest in human behavioural patterns and has since become passionate about challenging people to become better at being human. To this end, he regularly presents personal development workshops and he is putting the final touches to his first manuscript. Watch this space! When he is not working in the business or on his theories, he writes short observations about everyday experiences for this site. He has one wife, three children and four dogs; and he is happy.

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Shado Alston is currently 34, and self employed. “I write to soothe my soul and don’t let a lot of my stuff get out. I am Gauteng born, speak a little English, Afrikaans, Sotho and Zulu/Xhosa. I have been out on my farm for about six years and doing my best to enrich the local community by providing work, housing, water and tools to feed themselves.”

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Marc de Jong was born in Pretoria, South Africa of an American mother and South African father. He attended the high school of Art, Music and Ballet and as a Springbok (national team) fencer he won a scholarship to the University of Notre Dame in the United States. At university he studied widely in the arts, humanities and sciences, concentrating on art, design and philosophy.He is an accomplished designer having designed the new series of South African banknotes. He currently runs his own studio called Simplicity.Marc is a painter, potter, graphic artist, writer and philosopher (concentrating on Technephilos – the philosophy of art). He is currently writing a book called Don’t think about the Universe that covers a wide range of ideas and experiences in the realm of the the mind, complexity and simplicity.

He currently resides in Johannesburg, South Africa.

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