What’s something most people don’t understand? 1. If someone isn’t making small talk with you, (in a hairdresser or nail salon) they aren’t being snobby, they are most likely shy or introverted and don’t know what to say. 2. If you don’t change the thing that’s pissing you off: job, relationship, location, situation then nothingContinue reading “Having a go: some things that most people don’t understand”
Category Archives: A Day in the Life
Taking big-boned baby Buck to the beach
Buck has had a very difficult few months. He lost his golden retriever sister to a rare form of liver cancer. My parents’ two beautiful Goldens have now become one very distraught and lost boy. He has now grown into an adult body, but his mannerisms and mind are still show that he is aContinue reading “Taking big-boned baby Buck to the beach”
Walking, talking, laughing
What strategies do you use to cope with negative feelings? Everyone has these moments or even long periods of time when they feel derailed, set adrift from where they want to be. Lost. But there’s ways to lift yourself out of that. Walking: as a resistance to traveling fast, a remedy and rebellion fromContinue reading “Walking, talking, laughing”
I’m writing a letter to my 100 year old self
Write a letter to your 100-year-old self. Hello there dear old friend. No doubt that time has done a number on you. Rocks have moved and been shaped by tonnes of ocean waves, skies and clouds have melted and reformed thousands of times over. I’m glad you loved like you did, with a fearless andContinue reading “I’m writing a letter to my 100 year old self”
Travel: Wellington’s Chinese New Year Lantern Festival
#Wellington’s annual #Chinese New Year Festival went ahead in early 2020 despite COVID-19. The waterfront became a sea of dancing colours with luminous koi fish, red dragons dancing, and illuminated Māori wahine and much more #travel #NewZealand
The most important invention of my lifetime? Chat GPT
The most important invention in your lifetime is… It’s a double-edged sword you know, AI. It has the potential to elevate people out of poverty, cure diseases, etc. However the flip side is it could also be ungovernable, unregulated and out-of-control, meaning it could do anything, anything at all. We just don’t know yet whatContinue reading “The most important invention of my lifetime? Chat GPT”
What would you do if you won the lottery?
What would you do if you won the lottery? I would invest a third of the money, use a third to buy myself a home (I have never owned one, as where I live, houses are outrageously expensive) and use the other third to set up an animal advocacy charity or an animal sanctuary forContinue reading “What would you do if you won the lottery?”
If you could uninvent something- what would it be? Humans eating animals
Could look clearly into the eyes of an animal and tell them that your food preference matters more than their suffering, pain and death? If you could un-invent something, what would it be? This is a highly controversial post and it taps into many people’s ideas of what is morally right and morally permissable. TheContinue reading “If you could uninvent something- what would it be? Humans eating animals”
What is your favourite animal? Crows and ravens
What is your favorite animal? Their iridescent black and purple feathers are like midnight sky cloaks given by impatient gods. Their glances from electrifying ice blue eyes that cut like a knife through my soul. I pay tribute in the form of grapes and old bread and they grace me with their presence and it’sContinue reading “What is your favourite animal? Crows and ravens”
If you had a freeway billboard what would it say? Knowledge is Power
If you had a freeway billboard, what would it say? Knowledge is Power So gather together the glass beads of your curiosity and inner light and pursue knowledge relentlessly until you’ve managed to understand all that has been hidden from you through the guile adults and those more powerful than you, poverty, a difficult childhoodContinue reading “If you had a freeway billboard what would it say? Knowledge is Power”
