Being Marica

She cried for help. She screamed but was hushed in by the estate's security.  The neighbours needed her to be abused inside the mansion instead of disturbing a "rich" mans leafy suburb.  A suburb where dogs are treated better than humans and some human's feel kicked and abused like strays. So what is rich? She managed to escape hours of torture to safety where many could have smirked at her but hadn't and her driver wasn't that but instead her friend. Where doctors thanked them for their support and she thank doctors for saving her. The violence was long before his actual. He corroded her mentally and emotionally. Her. A wall which behind her eyes like mystic pools wailed.  How do you wrong someone flawed but wanting right? Raised voices, expectations, hands and hopes. How do you women raise your son. To raise voices, demands and their hands to their women? Afflicted and heartfelt she stood the wall of living embrace.

I am not someone who ever wants to see myself in a hospital unless God forbid, there's an emergency.  A belief I think most of us share. For me the idea alone of being confined to a space where people are unwell makes me sick.  So having to spend time in a bed knowing so many people are ill is more distressing. But how does one perfect the balance needed to be medically treated and to be out of a space that leaves little room for inspiration. And what about the people tasked to daily help others recover? Virtually answers a lot and medicine is seeing much in the space of online consultation and developments in AI led medical treatments, which is said to have a greater percentage of accuracy. However taking away the human element found in doctors and which we all need when we are vulnerable doesn't make any robot better without a human, humane medical representative. Private medical treatment facilities gives patients the liberty to ask for what they need and when. Delays in se...

Writing is two things for me. A natural expression when I find I must, or an art I cannot bring myself to naturally as a result of anything unnaturally consuming. Writing is the grey matter I find myself between. When my mind as an over stimulus really wants to have me speak itself through words and between stuff, or simply when so much is happening that I just cannot bring myself to a single word - because of stuff. My Twenty Twenty One new year canvas was slightly unprepared for and arrived in a way I’ll never be used to. Still, here I find you through grey matter. Through expressed words – naturally even in unnatural times. I truly wish us all a year different to the last. Some of the people I respect most are those not tucked neatly in conventional days, ways or lives. In standing up for my own definition of what it means to be living and while it may have cost me conventionally, is one I am ok to be held to with words, no no infact labels, both good and bad alike. May the work you...

  I am a firm believer of looking forward and in moving forward.  When I do reflect its generally to learn or to make correction of what I did not see coming and won't want again. Part of the training has been about years of following various schools of thought. Some briefly and some more consistently. I won’t cling to any one in isolation because knowledge is broad and ultimately the same, maybe just varied in expression. And the expression being the savouring. The purpose of this piece is perhaps to highlight the tenacity needed to move forward post a bunch of things which has affected us all in 2020. “Moving Forward” has also become such an overused, misused and to me, a shallow use of words when simply left at that. Shallow because if the personal work is not done, the effort not applied, the actual intent left undefined to evolve a past, clearly moving forward into a future created -  is without gravitas. Experiencing a Gestalt, that ah-ha moment, can general...

  https://marica.co/     As a firm committed to developing for a successful future and for a broader significance beyond business, our past and current activities always keep relevance, efficiency, sustainability and needs-based affordability top of mind with the solutions we develop, represent or consider onboarding. Being human centric we also believe that people are ultimately who we are serving and that the psyche of various demographics remains common regardless of variables. So the decisions and preferred ways to engage, taking a data -tech-people centric approach, makes many of our sector foresights accurate. It's with a deep level of conviction we hold the position that collective consumerism and collective demand will necessitate a collective rethink on how to supply for those needs - in the most humane ways. Also, we don't shy away from the fact that people do not know what they missed till it's presented beautifully, easily, seamlessly. With this, Quality...

    Today marks World Food Day and for a food entrepreneur leading into a macro trend future of food space, a few questions come to mind. The first being, when is food enough to sustain when at the expense of Climate Change, Food Waste and worst still, with poor regarded ingredients making food a catalyst for disease.  I have been fortunate to use a lot of my time in a pandemic to revisit food centric business plans and to bring it to a point of production, consultation and advocacy with like-minded and respected institutes, experts and leading countries representative of innovation and home to leading forums with organisations. An in person meeting earlier today with a global finance, AI and business mind, who has not only championed work in leading sectors but lived abroad to do so - refreshes. The need to digitise and the need for relevance is where innovation finds itself neatly junctured. Food systems being compromised by more than just the know how to pr...

I think if any time proved the appropriateness in the meaning of the word relatability, it is now. We come out of a global pandemic which saw me in facemasks already in January 2020 - being gawked at while traveling in my own country and mocked by my close friends and colleagues for showing up protected. I believe I was the only person to be in a mask before it became mandatory to wear one in SA. My twitter feed has a bit more to support this. If anything, wearing a mask is what we all became accustomed to seeing one another in. A silent relatability you could say. In every part of the world, we all had a common understanding. We could relate. And so while this is a fairly short post (I need to dash out shortly) I can say that while we are in the middle of building our own companies new brands and brand extensions, to me the key to building a successful one lies in being able to relate with people. This is from the outset and at the beginning of the brand development process, right thr...