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My favourite vegetable is corn; I could eat it till the cows come home. I love it cooked and eaten right off the cob, I love it popped and I love it done in the old fashioned maori tradition, as kaanga wai. “This literally translates as
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When I think about how the year has played out I can’t help but see it in the context of the people I’ve met. Recently, I’ve met an incredibly brave woman, her name is Kate.
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The thing about having and showing so much promise is that at some point in time we have to front up with the goods. Is that a truism or what?
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I love watching children blow bubbles, their eyes light up as if it were singularly the most magical moment in their lives, and perhaps it is.
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Things feel so catch up at the moment. Catch up with myself; catch up with others I’ve seemed to have missed over an extended period of time. Catch up can make you feel frantic when
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