Botswana Meditation,1978 Comments

This piece of prose, is I believe, the most beautiful piece of writing - prose or poetry - that I have ever read in all my 67 years, and I have read many, many beautiful pieces of writing including very many of the classics. It had me in floods of tears - and the tears are still coursing down my cheeks at how real AND compassionate AND beautiful AND how much it shows SUCH a profound knowledge of the essence, soil, breath, sunshine, shadow, happiness and sorrow of our continent and its people. I have never read something so rooted in our continent as this, nor been so touched and shaken by a piece of writing (and I have been touched by writing probably thousands of times) as I have by “Botswana Meditation,1978”and I don't think I ever will again - whether written by you or anyone else. When you said words to the effect of return to Nature or perhaps Southern Africa I thought you meant return to Nature, by going to Southern Africa (for a first time) . I didn't realise that you had lived here. Although I haven't been to Botswana, it is still very much part of Southern Africa, as is South Africa, where I live. I adore my country and my continent passionately and have written poems about it, but nothing that touches the hem of this...