About Helena
Pink Tulips: - origins
-Prologue From “Before Forever After”
Pink tulips in a frosted glass vase; they stood erect at first, bending their heads only slightly. As their petals unfolded they gently filled with air, and as they swelled the intensity of their color faded, just a fraction of a shade. Days passed and they stretched their necks like swans towards the light that fell into the room from the bay window.
They leaned. They took a bow. I loved watching them change.
‘Mama,’ my younger daughter Kyla asked, ‘when you buy tulips, why do you always buy the pink ones?’
Indeed, why always pink tulips?….
In 2025 I donated a damaged poster to the Nelson Mandela foundation. It’s provenance was Ruth First’s office in Mozambique. The foundation was curious, “How had I come to have this poster”
This video records that story, a defining moment in personal history, a moment that influenced my choice to live in South Africa
