Desert December

by Dorian Haarhoff, Leon Vermeulen (Illustrator)

On the day before Christmas Seth sets off alone in his donkey-cart across the Namib desert to take a gift to his mother, who has gone to the mining village to have a baby. He is guided by a beautiful oryx and the evening star, until he reaches his father's shack in the village and finds a joyous Christmas welcome.

Hardcover

First published October 1, 1992

About the author

He is a former teacher trainer and Professor of English at the University of Namibia, and has also taught in a Canadian Creative Writing Faculty and in the Film Studies unit at the University of Colorado in Boulder. He has also served as an external examiner at UCT for the MA programme in Creative Writing.

Since 1998 he has run his own business, Creative Workshops. Dorian Haarhoff has on several occasions been invited as poet and as a guest story-teller to Mauritius and to the Conference of Word Affairs in Boulder, Colorado. He has participated in Poetry Africa and an International Poetry Festival in Colombia South America.

His talks/workshops are meant for individuals, organizations and corporations who wish to explore their creativity, improve their skills and understand their relationships. He uses story-telling, writing, images and symbolic work as a means of discovering hidden potential and assessing new ways of being and seeing. He believes in the ability of people to revitalise their workplace, build their communities, participate in their healing and find their joy.

His approach is based on his book, The Writer's Voice: A Workbook for Writers in Africa (Zebra-Struik, 1998). His work is strongly influenced by mythology, whole brain theory, Jungian and Eco psychology, creation spirituality, the new physics and narrative therapy.

You can do one of his courses via the Internet. Go to http://skillstoshare.com/product/the-...