Category: Aotearoa
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Rainbows and Balderdash
Rainbows are always a good omen to me. They conjure up visions of wee irish sprites and pots of gold AND they make me smile. Particularly when it’s been (pardon my language) a shitter of a week. I apologise in advance if this post is complete and utter balderdash. Geez I love…
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Love in all of its guises
Love. L.O.V.E. Lightly Opening Violets Everywhere. It’s one of our most essential needs, and sadly one that is often absent in people’s lives. Last night a woman on the TV said, “There’s loads of love out there, just waiting to be found.” And I think she might be right. For many of us, love is a tricky…
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Pain Bodies
I am reminded of pain, by way of my body today. I don’t mean the pain you get from banging an elbow on the car door. I’m referring to other kinds of pain, which collect within us and are often left unattended. Physical pain is perhaps more visible, and seen as ‘treatable’ in our scientific world. Yet…
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Feedback and Rewrites
Yep, you heard right. I’ve received feedback on (some) of ‘The Novel’. Yeeaaahhh! Full, honest, comprehensive feedback. The thing which has eluded me in my quest to get on with fully editing ‘The Novel’. That is to say, I’m still waiting on ‘The Thesis Results and Feedback’ (a touch of bitterness perhaps?) but…
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Views
Sometimes it’s difficult to know what to blog about. Like today. But I’ve promised both of us (you dear readers and myself) that I would write at least once a week (in this format). And being one for setting the bar at an acceptable level (aka not writing drivel for the sake of…
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Foot in Mouth
Foot in mouth: speaking without thinking. As opposed to foot and mouth – the horrible toxic disease we were petrified of contracting as children. Sadly, this has lead to a lifelong fear of cows and pigs—I won’t be a farmer in this lifetime. But I digress. Hmm, the matter of foot-in-mouth issues. As I go…
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Feathered Friends and Activism
I started this blog off a few days ago, and for one reason or another it was incomplete. Being one for tidying up loose ends, here’s the completed version of a somewhat altered chain of thought and reflection. Yesterday I was awoken by loud bangs, and said out loud, “Who on earth…
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Assumptions and Reflections
Often I hear people say, “I know everything about her (or him).” How is that even possible? As humans, we assume a lot about each other, loosely based on the small percentages we actually know about. But all we’re doing is assuming—aka hypothesising, surmising, guessing, or simply making things up. I can’t…
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Change in the weather.
Yep, we’ve gone from wearing singlets in the garden, to three layers of clothing – in a day. And everybody seems to be talking about it. I guess driving through snow and ice into town last night was a HUGE talking point. AND one needed to keep their wits about them, having not…
Iona Winter 