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The Circle of Life

Today, as I was walking early in the morning around Newbold, I had a real Lion King moment.

I looked to the field, saw 4 deer standing, and found myself going: ‘Nants ingonyama bagithi baba’

And just as in the movie (where I think it’s an antelope or zebra, but still), one of the deer raised its head and looked towards me.

So I kept going: ‘Ingonyama Ingonyama nengw’ enamabaal’ (which I’ve just now discovered mean ‘it’s a lion and a tiger’)

And suddenly I felt the sun rising to my right, and surely, when I looked, there it was. Admittedly, the little red dot was not as impressive as the African sunrise depicted in Lion King, but still.

It was my Lion King moment

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Promises

Somehow today, two promises made in my lifetime stood clearly before me.

The first one was ‘that’s not going to happen. Mommy and daddy are never going to be divorced’. As a young boy, I clung to this all the way up until it happened.

The second one: ‘Jonas, I will always, always, always. Always, always be your friend’.

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