Category: Happiness

You only live once

June 7, 2019

Oh the weight and the divine opportunity of living just one life. Remember, this is only a poem.

Messages of love and support outside the New Plymouth mosque. The chldren write, "We are so sorry." "You belong here" "You are home."

Everything about NZ WOMAD 2019 reminds me of the Christchurch shootings

March 18, 2019

On Friday 15 March 2019, a white supremacist terrorist shoots and kills 50 Muslims at prayer and injures another 48. At the same time, NZ WOMAD —a festival of unity and tolerance and hope — is about to begin. My body and half my mind is at WOMAD.

Cat thinkies

November 16, 2018

Cats have feelings too you know.

Walking back home: joy of serendipitous pavement art

March 15, 2018

It’s not a long walk home from aerobic dance class, just five small blocks, and I’ve walked that route hundreds of times. But it’s still full of beautiful surprises. Walk home with me now and I’ll show you what I saw tonight. Small bunch of grapes, elegantly squashed. 2. A question mark on the footpath. […]

Exotic fabric finally finds its function: a TV cosy

March 7, 2018

Friends know that I’m a fabricaholic. A few years back they gave me this luscious blue, gold and purple fabric from Bangladesh. It’s stiff when ironed, and crumples shortly afterwards. It’s semi-transparent and yet firm. Elegant, yet camp. Symmetrical, yet erratic. Now, what to do with this cloth? For us fabricaholics, that’s never an issue. […]