“This situation is an opportunity. You have to turn the negative into a positive,” says Josie Martin. Martin is the creator and owner/operator of The Giants House in Akaroa, in Aotearoa/New Zealand. It’s a historic villa with terraced gardens full of sculptures, mosaics and ceramics by the artist. We’re talking on the phone in March …
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Your body is yours
Your body is yours to do with as you please. Nobody has the right to tell you what you can and cannot do with it. Your body is nobody else’s possession; not your parents’, teachers’, politicians’, employers’, leaders’, country’s, wives’, husbands’ or lovers’ possession. Your body is your temple and your laboratory. It’s your “rental property”, belonging to you from birth to death. Read More…
“Dearest Child”; Letter to all children worldwide
Dearest child, Wherever you are appearing on this earth, you are a wonder. We don’t know where you came from. Which is not to say we don’t know how babies are made. It means the ultimate source of breath that gives you life is a mystery to all of us. Even to the wisest of …
Reflections on New-Zealand’s ANZAC-day
The brave… The fallen… More like the duped and the manipulated, and perhaps the innocent and the naive. Yes, my heart goes out to all men and women that were (or are) forced to do the most unnatural thing (and go fight and kill each other, and be killed, or at best serve that machine’s …