Hello.

This is my grandfather: Daniel Molelekwa Nkoane.  We do not have a solid relation as I do with Koko.

I tried to treat this photograph in way that would not make him look as 'aggressive', but, it is true to our relation, it's rough.

Alas, if I am not mistaken, he is about 90+ years old, and when I spoke to Koko yesterday, he wasn't doing well.

Although we (me and the ol'man) don't have a solid bond, his fading health has an effect on my well being.  I guess this quote then makes sense:

"Everybody is connected together.  The sun, the moons and the stars. Human beings are connected too." - © Freeland, Wink & Middleton: Rise Above.

and considering I was named after him.

1ove, family.

05 comments
  1. Deep pic! you are fortunate, i don't remember having a gradfather growing... and granny died when i was stil young. but i stil have those childish memories that will never fade.

  2. Deep pic!!! you fortunate i don't remember having a grandfather growning up, infact i never did. and my grand mother died when a was stil young but i stil have those memories

  3. I think there's a great continuum there between the grandparent you're named after and yourself.
    It roots us. I don't have that. But I do see it with other family members. I envy that.

  4. the genes are strong

  5. The fact that there is a strong resemblance form parent to child and between generations is nothing short of a miracle. A quick genetic biology lesson: when genes recombine during fertilization is the equivalent of a lotto of sorts. What is even more amazing is which genes are expressed and which are not!

    Hope your grandfather is in good health.