VIR Freeda Moon was Vrydag, 23 Maart, \u2019n dag wat sy vir altyd diep in haar hart sal koester. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nie net was dit vir haar \u2019n droom wat verwesenlik is met die bekendstelling van haar vierde boek, Selkie\u2019s Promise<\/i> nie, maar dit was ook sommer \u2019n dubbele viering aange- sien sy op Woensdag, 21 Maart verjaar het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hierdie viering is in die Langenhoven-biblioteek se mooi getooide saaltjie gehou. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Freeda, oftewel Mercia van der Vyver, se moeder Bets het die gaste verwelkom en \u2019n spesiale woord van welkom aan ds. Rudie Swanepoel en sy vrou Carina, al die pad van Johannesburg af, gerig. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ds. Rudie het \u2019n paar woorde oor die \u201cMiles for Mercia\u201d liefdadigheid ges\u00ea (sien blokkie onder).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
James Kennedy, self van Ierse afkoms en tans woonagtig in die dorp, het met sy Ierse aksent en ruimskootse humor vir die gaste meer vertel van die betekenis van sekere woorde, soos byvoorbeeld \u201cSelkie\u201d. Hy het vir Mercia die mooiste kompliment gegee deur te s\u00ea dat sy \u2019n goeie voorbeeld van \u2019n Ierse-storieverteller is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sandra Pansegrauw, die bibliotekaresse van die Langenhoven-biblioteek wie se breinkind dit was om die boekbekendstelling te re\u00ebl, het deur middel van \u2019n skyfievertoning sommige van die plekke gewys waaroor Mercia in haar boek skryf. Sy het ook die betekenis van woorde soos \u201cthin places\u201d en \u201cbrigid knot\u201d verduidelik.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Gerrie Scheepers het namens die ATKV gepraat en terselfdertyd genoem dat hulle graag \u2019n skrywersklub op Somerset-Oos wil begin aangesien daar groot belangstelling is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mercia se groot glimlag en glinsterende o\u00eb het gewys hoe gelukkig en ontspanne sy tussen haar vriende en gaste was en dat sy elke oomblik terde\u00eb geniet het. Sy het al die boeke wat verkoop is, met haar vingerafdruk \u201cgeteken\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mercia het tydens die Mid-Karoo Express<\/i> se besoek genoem dat haar beker van dankbaarheid oorloop en dat sy graag vir elkeen wat \u2019n bydrae tot die baie spesiale aand gemaak het, \u2019n groot dankie s\u00ea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Van Mercia se vorige boeke, asook die jongste een is by die Langenhoven-biblioteek te koop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Miles for Mercia-liefdadigheid<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ds. Rudie is \u2019n jare lange predikantsvriend van Mercia toe hulle mekaar op Bedford\/Adelaide leer ken het. Hy het haar baie met haar skryfwerk en om haar droom te bewaarheid om Ierland te besoek, aangemoedig. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Saam met Mercia het hy die \u201cMiles for Mercia\u201d liefdadigheid begin. Die fondse wat hier gegenereer word, gaan aan mense wat, soos Mercia, serebraal gestremd is. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hierdie liefdadigheid is in 2013 gestig as \u2019n \u201cpay it forward\u201d-inisiatief. Mercia was een van die eerste serebraal gestremdes wat hierby baat gevind het en sy ontvang steeds ondersteuning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cMiles for Mercia\u201d stap hand-aan-hand met die jaarlikse Comrades Marathon waar atlete per kilometer geborg word. Ds. Rudie hardloop van die begin af steeds elke jaar die Comrades om geld vir hierdie liefdadigheid in te samel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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