I’m not sure whether I’ve been clear enough in my statements about my health. Mostly it’s great, sometimes it’s not. There are two reasons why, at least some of the time, my body is not quite not right. These are: My excuse is that we didn’t know how to train, but the truth is, I’ve never […]
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Te Wānanga o Aotearoa
Again, thanks to Cushla who started the process, I did as I was told, mindlessly followed her lead because she’s clever and she does things that are good and right, and she doesn’t mind including me. Followed her to do what? In this case it was returning to study, but not as I might have […]
Te Pâti Māori
I voted for Te Pâti Māori when they first entered the Whare Pāremata and they were fresh. I’ve always wanted them to do well but I lost faith in them when they opted to join Key’s ratbag lot. I understand why they did it and I respect their reasoning but somewhere in my soul it […]
Friendships – old and gone
It’s been an odd year for friendships. I’ve reconnected with people I went to primary school with over seventy years ago, and I’m constantly astonished at the longevity for some of my friendships. I guess the natural result of a prolonged existence is that, on quite a regular basis, one or other of my old […]
Whānau
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 […]
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 people struggled with the concept of lockdown, I absolutely loved […]
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. 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 be close to where my bus from York […]
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 its all in the […]
Consume. Be silent. Die.
The more I engage with people the more I realise how important an education is, one that includes acquiring the skills of inquiry, critical thinking, analysis, hermeneutics, and reflection. Having acquired those skills – and experimented with them – we can then question perceived reality and confirm the sources of all our information, challenge commonly […]
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