Thursday, November 28, 2024

Paring Back the Peer Group

October 27, 2008 by  
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Do you remember when you were growing up, those moments when you felt left out from a peer group or even among particular friends within your own group of friends. This isn’t a sense of ‘belonging’ incognito. No, it’s something quite different though

Crackling Up

October 26, 2008 by  
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I appear to have chocolate crackles on the brain. Everywhere I look my brain manages to conjure up the illusion that makes certain things look like chocolate crackles in disguise! Impossible? No really, it’s true! This must be how the cookie Monster feels ALL the time! It must

Survival at its Fittest

October 25, 2008 by  
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Survival is an interesting modus operandi. It’s odd really because at the heart of a situation is a softness that can somehow get lost in the translation. I often wonder what it is that enables us to survive situations and experiences. And I am constantly amazed at

Older Better Wiser

October 24, 2008 by  
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I like that the older you get the less you have to work at getting every other man and his dog to appreciate that fact. It’s like the imperceptible manner in which seasons change their leaves, over time we know it will happen and therefore we are less likely to stand in its way when

Roots and All

October 23, 2008 by  
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Does it ever seem to you that for most of your life you spend it looking for yourself? Even when you know you’re right there! Odd isn’t it! Tomorrow I’ll be travelling to Helensville. I’m attending the hura kohatu (unveiling) of my maternal great grandmother, a woman I hardly know

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