Aging is an extraordinary process, where you become free to be the person you always should have been – David Bowie.
It's been a miserable ol’ week weather-wise here. I haven’t got out and about much, not only because we’re still in Covid-19 alert level two, but also because it’s been raining and freezing cold. It’s times like this when we realise just how close we are to the Antarctica here in New Zealand. A southerly …
Continue reading Hunkering down, thought-trails, and Ntozake Shange.
We’re like a puppy with two tails here in New Zealand at the moment. Umair Haque, journalist, has petted and praised us so much in the article below, we can hardly contain our delight. I mean, who doesn’t love a lovely pat on the head like this? A small country on the edge of the …
Continue reading New Zealand – on getting a whole heaping of sweet praise from journo Umair Haque
Very exciting day today! New Zealand reduced to Covid-19 alert level two - which feels almost like freedom compared to the last six weeks. A taste of what could be around the corner, if we last the distance of playing by the rules of lockdown. So far, most of us have been willing to do …
Continue reading A beach walk to celebrate (almost) freedom!
You know the human-made Covid-19 virus that’s currently knocking the world’s communities and economies on its collective arse? Well, wait till I get my hands on the bunch of American fifteen-year-old numbnuts who made it! We all know it’s a human-made virus, because there are people on the internet saying so. America made it to …
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.
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