I’m incredibly grateful for my immediate family and the life we have together. Anyone who knows us will know how important our family unit is to us and how well it functions most of the time. It’s strangely heartening to know that I can function honourably within my family because it’s something I have always […]
Month: April 2025
Warming Relationships
Relationships are important, even when you wish they weren’t. I quite often wish that I could function adequately without any personal connection to other people at all. There, I’ve said it. I’m an introvert, albeit, according to my son, a highly socialised one. While many struggled with the concept of lockdown, and the reality, I […]
Alex Reed. Who?
Many years ago, I met a young actor named Alexander Reed. Actually, that’s not true, I didn’t. In those days he was a handsome, youthful, acting-obsessed fellow called Aleksander Ristov and we ‘did theatre’ together. Shakespeare, all sorts of stuff. His dream was to go to New York and to become Al Pacino. Instead, he […]
Edinburgh Comes Home
I’ve been to Edinburgh, but I don’t remember that much about it. It wasn’t that memorable. Grey clouds, and rain. I stayed in quite a nice hotel, small, and a bit classy. I had a nice first floor room that overlooked a rather elegant street. None of this was planned. The hotel just happened to […]
Lexie ‘Online’
It has to be said that I love the Internet. I have no idea how we functioned without it because it’s like GPS. With my diabolical sense of direction, I have no idea how I got anywhere before GPS but it seems I did because the facts speak for themselves, and it’s all there in […]
Consume. Be silent. Die.
The more I engage with people the more I realise how important education is, education that includes acquiring the skills of inquiry, critical thinking, analysis, hermeneutics, and reflection. Having acquired these skills – and experimented with them – we can begin to question perceived realities and begin to address the sources of the flood of […]
Waitangi Day 2024
We always commemorate actual Waitangi Day in special ways because, in Aotearoa, and in our world, every day is Waitangi Day. This year (2024) we again celebrated Waitangi Day ‘out west’ at Parr’s Park at Waitangi@Waititi, a fantastic event organised by Te Whānau o Waipareira Trust and with a cast of thousands. We took 35,000+ […]
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