Sharing My Clients Beautiful Initiative – Helping Others Pay It Forward: Purple Rain Game Breeders Supporting Community Social Upliftment!

April 23, 2016May 21, 2017 JoJo BayvelLeave a comment

You may find it strange as an animal activist and lover, that I have a client in this ‘controversial’ industry. However I only took on this project as the owners and managers are not Hunters and believe in conservation a little more than I do even!

The majority of proceeds which are not used to look after the game in the breeding project, go towards the conservation of the surrounding farm ,feeding of animals especially after droughts and ant-poaching activities.

These animals are also treated by the top vets and no cost is spared in ensuring their health and well being.

So for the main post reason 🙂

Introducing the Madikwe Mambas Running Club!

The Madikwe Mambas consists of members of the local community who are all employed within the Madikwe Conservancy.

As part of our ethos at Purple Rain, we strongly believe that a ‘healthy body ensures a healthy mind’. It is therefore our aim to ensure that we provide all of our staff with the opportunity to participate in various sporting activities. This has and continues to instill a healthy attitude and atmosphere in our working and living environment.

Our Madikwe Mambas running club is not just an ordinary running club; it is a running club with a cause – and that is one of social good! Our runners run for their community as well as for the upliftment of the children in their communities.

The Purple Rain staff comes from three different villages namely:

Obakeng
Welbedacht
Molatedi and
Welgeval

Our Madikwe Mambas runners, being members of these communities, ascertain what the exact needs of the communities are. A priority project list is then drawn up after which the runners then try and raise funds for their communities.

Since the inception of the running club:

Crèches have been built,
School playgrounds have been upgraded,
Bus shelters have been erected,
Old lands have been transformed into lusern fields with water pivots

And so the list goes on!

Well done team Mambas! You are an inspiration to all of those around you.

As the Comrades Marathon 2016 draws closer and is now less than 50 days away, the team is in full swing training mode and we are proud to announce that this year we have 12 runners that have entered the race!

If you are happy to have your donation made public, we will also add your full name to this blog post on our website as well as on all other Purple Rain Game Breeding social media pages. This will then allow you to begin your own ‘pay it forward’ campaign as you share what you have shared via your own social media page and encourage others to share whatever they can!

Like us to get involved www.facebook.com/purpleraingamebreeding

Website www.purpleraingamebreeding.com

All donations can be paid into the following bank account or online at https://gogetfunding.com/helping-the-madikwe-mambas-pay-it-forward-supporting-community-social-upliftment/#.WR_vihqNSUc.email

Purple Rain Properties No 292 (PTY) Ltd
Standard Bank, Fourways Crossing
Branch Code: 009953
Account number: 421482575
Reference: Madikwe Mambas
Swift Code: SBZAZAJJ

Please ensure that your reference is: Madikwe Mambas

You can also send your Proof of Payment along with donation specification to carlien@purplerain.za.org

Thanks

Jojo

You Are Beautiful! Remember That…

April 23, 2016 JoJo BayvelLeave a comment

For all those beautiful ladies I know.

This video touches my heart and causes a catch in my throat every time I watch it. So many girls, teenagers, ladies, mothers, wives and daughters so often forget that each an every one of you is BEAUTIFUL.

Remember always, as we live in a fickle and fake world filled with images of perfect women, with perfect bodies and perfect faces that fill timelines and shopping lines: beauty need not lie in your aesthetics – as a beautiful heart lasts forever, beyond wrinkles and scars and this life’s untold ‘war wounds’.

Never ever let your outer beauty distract others from your internal love and beautiful hearts.

Your external beauty may never be good enough – as there are too many things someone will want to change about you to make you more beautiful in their eyes. Forget THEM they are insecure and will bring you down.

Your internal beauty may only be appreciated by those who are special and lucky enough to get to know you. BE patient, these people are worth it.

I am blessed to know ladies of all ages who are lucky enough to be beautiful on the outside and inside… the difference is these ladies whose looks will eventually fade will always have eyes and a soul that reflect the inner beauty of their souls.

I am proud to know each of you….

And ladies, most importantly remember that you are created perfect and beautiful in the image of the man who died to know and love you. Jesus.

Happy Birthday Our Beautiful Debs – My Sister, My Hero, My Best Friend, My Heart

March 10, 2016March 10, 2016 JoJo BayvelLeave a comment

My birthday wishes for our Debs, my thankfulness to our Heavenly Father and my absolute love for my incredible family.

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Tears do to stream down my cheeks as I write this, my other sis Bronni – We have been blessed with an incredible part of us, our middle sister Debs. Today they are tears of both joy and sorrow.

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My precious one, my twin, my love, my life… How do I even put into words how grateful I am to know you and have you with me always, both physically, emotionally and spiritually, the better part of me, my hero and my confidant. I am going to try and express this in what a few words can hardly do justice to…

The 10th March 2016 and a happy 38th birthday my angel sister.

You are both woman and yet an innocent child, you are a living legend, not supposed to live past 12 years age of age and yet here we are 26 years later celebrating you and your life.

Little did we know my Debs, that what started off a week ago as a routine reconstructive procedure of your colon – to make you more beautiful physically, than you already are ,yes my sis you are insanely gorgeous, after all you look like our gorgeous momma – became a battle again, against a dreadful disease you suffered through and beat 18 years ago. The amazing thing is that, yet again what could have taken your life, was found by ‘mistake’ and in a stage so early it could be removed. Again and again God has proved he has His hand on your little body and he ain’t giving up on you EVER. 26 years ago you decided you were going to fight this battle with Him and He is with you now and always.

After hearing this news, you still remain so strong and steadfast in your Faith. My Debs, after 62 operations and having so many parts of your tiny body removed I cannot believe you are not bitter or angry that you have to go through more. Not many people would have survived the first three years of your life, I know I wouldn’t have.

When you said on Sunday night “Mommy, imagine the pain Jesus went through on that cross to save us and give us salvation”, my heart ached and yet it gave me joy. My sis, that is why you have always and will continue to touch every persons life with whom you come into contact. It is your innocence, selflessness, joy and soul which people see shining through. Every surgeon and nurse in that hospital has fallen in love with you after just one week. Because, you epitomize love at first sight my angel.

Today as I saw you lying in that hospital you are in pain, yet beautiful and strong. I know that I know, and it is with an incredible Heavenly peace, that you are going to be okay. This story, your life, your testimony is going to touch more and more lives in the future. You are going to show the world how strong you are and how amazing and faithful our Jesus is. That Cancer can be beaten again and again and again. We have already seen two miracles – you had a clear cat-scan and you survived a surgery where some doubted you would. Wow, what a thing to add to your book which I promise will begin to write now, my love.This will be the last chapter and we will follow up with an epilogue soon, describing what will become a perfect, beautiful and most fulfilling life.

My wish and prayer for you on this day, Debs, is that you continue to be the exact person you are. You are perfect and just plain amazing. A hero, a muse, a legend, a soulmate a confidante and a person who lights up the darkest places. You are one of a kind and I cannot wait to see you live a life you deserve. I am excited.

As Bronni says, lucky is the man who will have you as a wife – although I will be sad to give you away smile emoticon . You are going to walk down that aisle, with our amazing daddy. You are going to use every amazing talent you have, from singing to helping animals and other people battling this horrid disease. You are going to have a long life and its is going to be a beautiful life, one that is remembered and spoken about for eternity.

Debs, remember this always – the night can only last for so long, continue to lift up your eyes and sing and remember that the sun is rising on a new dawn and chapter of your life, that there is a promise from the One. So always hold on you ARE going to make it.

I can only add that we are so blessed to have the family we do. We share a closeness that we do not take for granted. We have the most amazing, supportive, intelligent, provider our Dad, the most beautiful, soft-hearted yet incredibly strong mom,the most intelligent,creative, caring, beautiful, kindest older sister who would give up anything for us, a nephew who is so loving and entertaining and another on the way, and a brother in law who provides us with strength,loyalty, laughter stability and a shoulder to cry on. You my darling sis though, are the best of all of us! You pull us together and shake us up and make us realise exactly what we have.

My little legend I love you forever and a day, infinity times infinity, more than the fish in the sea and the stars in the Heavens.

Get better and come home now my angel , I miss you and I need you, so we can start to live that beautiful life together, I will be by your side every step of the way. I will love and cherish you and help you share your testimony.

YOU MY SIS ARE MY SUNSHINE….

Love Becky

Being A ‘Heart’ Person

February 22, 2016February 22, 2016 JoJo BayvelLeave a comment

I have so often thought that I am a ‘head’ over ‘heart’person. A person who made decisions based on rationale and not emotion, a person who thought things through ‘intelligently’ and did not let my heart sway any of my choices.

Just thinking about one aspect of this scenario is in relationships. I have always been the one to say ‘yes I have been cheated on often , been spoken to badly, treated appallingly’ and yet I walk into new relationships with trust and confidence and no ‘baggage’, as my head says ‘this person isn’t the last person/s you dated … trust them and let down your guard’… the thing I have begun to realize is, how wrong I am.

These past hurts and acts of cheating and lying are embedded in my heart and the thing is, they have made me build walls so high and have created a fear of losing myself to love. Because my heart says love hurts , people lie and cheat and are never the person you first meet (well the act can be kept up for a couple of months I guess.) So i back away and that is not a ‘head’ decision, as I want to get married and have kiddies and love my best friend and soul mate forever.

So you see I’ve realized I’m without a doubt a ‘heart’ person through and through In short…. feeling > thinking..And I am actually pretty happy I am this way…

There is no doubt that I do believe that it is important to be both a ‘head’ & a ‘heart’ person. God equipped us with both a mind and a heart, and I think that most decisions in life should be made using both (also intuition, but we’ll save that for another post).

For now though, and for those of you who identify, here are a few ways to know if you are what I realise now, is that special kind of person.. a ‘heart’ person

You keep a diary or pen notes on your phone or scrap pieces of paper.

You have to verbally process everything, preferably with another ‘heart’ person. And sometimes over an over until your head gets around your heart thought.

Affection is your thing. Giving and getting.

You’re a hopeless (hopeful?) romantic. Don’t even try to fight it.

You’re highly sympathetic and empathetic. Wanting to save the world, animals, children and almost anything that cant save itself.

You try to make everyone happy and because their is only one of you and your heart to go around, you can’t and end up sometimes hurting people who think you have let them down, when in reality you just don’t have the heart capacity.

You desperately seek out those songs that make your heart explode (which typically occur two, maybe three times a year). Either to cry, laugh or just feel nostalgically lost in the music.

You’re one of those “cry out of happiness” people.

You’re bad at pretending you’re interested in something when you’re not.

Sometimes your life feels like a movie or a book and you want it to stay that way.

You’re probably into writing, music, dance, or art of some sort.

If you really like something or find something funny, you have to share it with everyone. Everyone. and Everywhere.

You’re observant and discerning of the emotions of people around you and you try to be a ‘fixer’ as much as possible.

You sometimes wish you weren’t a ‘heart person’, but most of the time you wouldn’t have it any other way…….

I Hate Small Talk – Blog you have to follow

May 23, 2013 JoJo BayvelLeave a comment

Came across this amazing blog today! It is a must follow, and I don’t often recommend other bloggers.

This post is so applicable as I turn 31 tomorrow and have realised that I am soooo over the surface level conversations people strike up, well, I guess ALL the time!

I Hate Small Talk

‘Hello, Ma’am. How are you today?” asks the caller, whose name appears on my call display as “unavailable”. The hairs at the back of my neck point north as I kick myself for answering, thus defeating the purpose of having call display. How am I? she asks – as if she cares two hoots. Whose bright idea was it to instruct telemarketers to inquire after our well-being? “I’m Fine” I say dismissively, leaving an uncomfortable silence where the “ … and how are you?” would normally go. As she proceeds to recite her telemarketing lines I interrupt with an annoyed “No thank you” and move to replace the receiver … but not before I hear her disembodied voice politely telling me to ‘have a nice day’.

How am I? Have a nice day? When did these phrases seep into our communication with absolute strangers?

I hate small talk. I’m not good at it – which can be a bit of a problem, since it follows us everywhere. Being out and about in the world requires that we engage in chit-chat with sundry people we encounter along the way … fleeting exchanges about nothing in particular. By it’s very definition, small talk involves conversation about matters of unimportance. It is society’s ice-breaker … a filler of empty pockets of time.

And oh! empty pockets of time abound! We ride the elevator with strangers and comment on the beautiful (or terrible!) weather we are having. Or we sit in a doctor’s waiting room, flipping through outdated, tattered magazines, and exchange ‘pleasantries’ (inaptly named, if you ask me). The opportunities are endless! Line-ups … restaurants … public washrooms … water coolers … airplanes …, and hair stylists, to name a few.

But nowhere is small talk more painful for me than at cocktail parties, where it is incumbent upon guests to “mingle”. Oh how I hate that word – it reeks of ‘Oh Dahling!! I wander around, looking for someone to momentarily imprison with my attempt at trivial chit-chat – people I have probably never met before, or will ever meet again. I watch others moving about with apparent ease – even enjoyment – while I am trying to figure out why my watch has stopped!

‘What is wrong with me?’ I ask myself, for the umpteenth time. I am neither shy nor I socially phobic. I simply find small talk empty and meaningless.

So here I am, 65 years of age, still scratching my head in bewilderment, with no relief in sight.

Until, by some stroke of luck, I stumbled upon the answer in a lecture I found online entitled “The Power of Introverts”. I have never regarded myself as an introvert, because when I’m with people I know, I am talkative and outgoing. But as I watched and listened, I was mesmerized by the speaker’s description of the characteristics of the introvert. It was an accurate description of me!

There it was – the answer that had eluded me for so long – a simple explanation that made absolute sense, obliterating my lifelong conviction that there was something wrong with me.

What does it mean, exactly, to be an introvert? It means that being alone energizes me, while spending too much time around people drains my energy. It means that I focus on my inner world, rather than the outer world, and that I thrive on solitude, where I can recharge my batteries and pursue my creative interests – which, no surprise – are solitary ones. It means that I am introspective, and love deep conversations, skipping the superficial and engaging in discussions about matters of substance.

And – wouldn’t you know it – introverts dislike small talk!!

And there is more. Introverts are often creative, observant and insightful, have good leadership skills and are good listeners.

So! Much to my intense relief – not only is there nothing wrong with me – there is actually something right with me!

Next time a telemarketer calls and asks how I am, I might answer “Well – let me tell you about my day …” and when she finds a way to escape this lunacy I will be sure to tell her to have a nice day!

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