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UnGrinching the Christmas Spirit through the Santa Shoebox Project

November 5, 2016 5

Tis the season to feel grumpy. Drowning in a tinsel tsunami, every shop is decked in obscene materialism, shouting blasphemy, I don’t picture baby Jesus in a manger, I envisage a furious Jesus, upending merchants tables in the temple. Tons of shitty plastic toys will end up as litter. Just as festive season dread invoked rising bile, along came the …

A South African wife, poet and mother. Sula was the founding member of the Durban Live Poets Society (LiPS) in 1995 which she headed until leaving Durban in 2000. She has had journal extracts published in Fair Lady Magazine and in the anthology “Glass Jars Among Trees” and her poetry, for which she has won several prizes, has been published in various South African and international anthologies. Sula is a loving mother to 4 children and loves hiking, the outdoors, reading, writing, cooking, baking and sewing. (written by my husband :) ) You can e-mail Sula at sula1968@gmail.com