Aging is an extraordinary process, where you become free to be the person you always should have been – David Bowie.
The good things that come with getting older, came as a true surprise to me. I’m not deliberately ignoring the less-than-good things that come with it as well, but they weren’t unexpected. If I knew when I was younger how I would feel now, I still wouldn’t say “Ooh, I can’t wait”. No-one I know …
I like this poem below by Seoul Sister. I like how it acknowledges the sometimes awful way we are as children towards other children, and as sibling towards sibling, especially if we're living in a tough environment. Yes, I had a mean older sister, and in turn, my younger sister tells me that I was …
I knew that this book was going to challenge me. And I wasn’t disappointed. When I picked up ‘It’s Not About the Burqa’, a book of essays from Muslim women about being Muslim women, I knew that I was probably going to get pulled in different directions. But that’s okay. Conflict – i.e. non-violent conflict …
Continue reading I knew this book was going to challenge me.
I really enjoyed the below interview of Sam Hunt, a well-known New Zealand poet, about living in Covid19 lockdown. I especially enjoyed his quote, taken from Johnny Cash, about coming out of it “wiser and weaker”. That appeals to me, because it implies that we’ll have been humbled enough to learn and change. Here’s hoping. …
Come on all you Millies* and Zizzies* – admit that you don’t really want the Boomer Remover* to remove us Boomers. It’s true that, in theory, Covid-19 likes Boomers more than it likes you, but who ya gonna hate on if we’re not here? How sucky would it be to lose all the bad girls …
Continue reading “Boomer Remover” – the Covid19 conspiracy of Millies and Zizzies.
A year has passed since a right-wing nut-job shot up a couple of mosques here in Christchurch, and killed fifty-one people at their Friday prayers. He shot down unarmed, unsuspecting people with a military-style automatic weapon, and live-streamed it. Before the video got taken down from the internet by the lumbering internet giants, giving it …
Continue reading A year on from when one nut-job changed us.
I have a treasure chest. No, it’s not the top half of my body, with those things perched on it. Although, ‘perched’ might be the wrong word to use now for those things (as well as ‘treasure’, but let’s not dwell on that). Life’s a funny ol’ bag of weasels, eh? It’s such a liberation …
It still happens. A couple I know of work in a shop, and recently received titty calendars from a major supplier to give away to customers. The staff in the shop comprise two women and a man, although the bulk of the customers are male (it’s not a sex shop, btw). The couple, who are …
Continue reading Titty calendars are sleaze, not a sign of women’s sexual freedom.
Who else besides me is also just a little bit (or a lot) fascinated by bridges? I don’t have a full-on obsession about them, but for me there is still something intriguing and compelling about them, especially old bridges. Maybe it’s because they light up my imagination with the stories, both known and unknown, that …
I’m boiling mad! There’s a lot to be boiling mad about in this mad world, but in this particular instance, I’m boiling mad at the right-wing Australian government. In particular, how they have blood on their hands from the out-of-control fires raging there. Slashing public funding for essential services was a really bad idea. Now, …
Continue reading How bad does it have to get before we stop the madness of climate change denial?
Aging is an extraordinary process, where you become free to be the person you always should have been - David Bowie.
Some of this. And some of that.
"The wound is the place where the light enters you" RUMI
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Words, words, words...pressed.
For we cannot tarry here, We must march my darlings
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You - philosophical, thoughtful, witty. Me - still thinks fart jokes are funny. We should DEFINITELY get together!
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