{"id":27626,"date":"2025-07-18T11:22:56","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T18:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/?p=27626"},"modified":"2025-07-18T11:22:56","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T18:22:56","slug":"and-what-do-you-do-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/?p=27626","title":{"rendered":"and what do you do tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-27627 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/and-what-do-you-do-tomorrow.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"597\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/and-what-do-you-do-tomorrow.jpg 460w, http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/and-what-do-you-do-tomorrow-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 597px) 100vw, 597px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">enquire of the fellow<br \/>\nhe doing good<br \/>\non International Mandela Day<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I on the outside<br \/>\nlibrary bench<br \/>\nreading and lapping up<br \/>\nthe sunlight peeking out<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">he has brought sandwiches<br \/>\ndoing his bit ticking off<br \/>\na box on a checklist<br \/>\nfor today<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">his finger points<br \/>\nto up above<br \/>\nas he asks someone<br \/>\nare there children there<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">as is my wont<br \/>\nI look skywards<br \/>\nand I think to myself<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">manna is falling<br \/>\nyet one more time<br \/>\nfrom the upstairs<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">for Africa the begging bowl<br \/>\nfor Africa with its riches<br \/>\nin the ground below<br \/>\nlook above and beyond<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and what do you do tomorrow<br \/>\nI enquire of the fellow<br \/>\nhe practising an act<br \/>\nof kindness<br \/>\non International Mandela Day<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">he chuckles good-naturedly<br \/>\nand I am at the receiving end<br \/>\nof a packet of sandwiches<br \/>\n(a free lunch)<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and what do you do tomorrow<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The afternoon of International Mandela Day brings a free lunch my way (Friday 18 July 2025).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(By David Kapp)<\/p>\n<p>(Image Credit: Denis Farrell\/AP\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/wordofmouth\/2009\/jul\/20\/nelson-mandela-food-south-africa\">The Guardian<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>enquire of the fellow he doing good on International Mandela Day I on the outside library bench reading and lapping up the sunlight peeking out he has brought sandwiches doing his bit ticking off a box on a checklist for today his finger points to up above as he asks someone are there children there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[731,6825,6610,83,732],"class_list":["post-27626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-david-kapp","tag-international-mandela-day","tag-nelson-mandela","tag-south-africa","tag-the-very-unfortunate","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27628,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27626\/revisions\/27628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}