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With all our goodbyes behind us, we drove out along Haranui Road one last time, blew kisses in the direction of the urupa to Nanny Moewaka where she and Arka lay, charges of Papatuanuku and finally headed back towards Auckland. We decided a detour to
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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
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To my way of thinking, traditions/rituals define an important social component of our lives that I think is fast becoming lost in the Western world and I find that sad actually. I feel they’ve been shelved because of the adverse attention that’s been
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The weather has been playing tricks on us again. It’s cast a grey blanket over things like a slow dirge. Ever notice how people seem to be caught as if in slow-mo on a grey day? Grey days certainly have
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I like the enigma that is life, well, sometimes. I like the fact there are parts of it that require deciphering. I fancy myself as a code-breaker. I like that while some days may be filled with many small codes that are easily cracked, there are others that require painstaking scrutiny as to how they […]
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