They all had enormous green leaves and magnificent flowers in every color of the rainbow.

VOA: special.2009.05.23

"What a magnificent night we have in store for you!

VOA: special.2009.08.05

The title comes from one of her thoughts during this time: "These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections - sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent that happened after I was gone."

VOA: standard.2010.01.08

"I love it that South Africans are just coming together as South Africans and saying 'Damn it, we've got our own people and it's an African World Cup, it's ours,it belongs to us' so why don't we use some of the magnificent talent that we've actually got?

VOA: standard.2010.05.05