Freelance journalist, NZ/NL
Freelance journalist, NZ/NL
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 …
There is a delightful mosaic scene in the biopic “Pollock” (2000), starring Ed Harris as the painter, and Marcia Gay Harnden (who received an Oscar for this role) playing his wife Lee Krasner. At just over an hour and 4 minutes, Krasner is seen creating a mosaic table. Four minutes later it resurfaces – only …
Being okay with feeling uneasy is key when starting anything new. No matter how much work and life experience you have, there will always be a level of unease when starting new projects, meeting new people, travelling to new places. However, it’s the degree of being okay with feeling rattled that will decide the ease …
Mindfulness practice is thousands of years old. Some even argue it is a natural skill much like walking. It’s just that society hasn’t valued it so we weren’t taught as kids. This has caused our mindfulness-muscle to go flabby and be forgotten. Both those premises are currently changing. You can’t turn around or there’s another …
I watch the patrons strolling up and down the Paraparaumu Beach Market on a chilly spring Saturday morning. Tourists, locals, visitors from nearby towns, with or without dogs, partners, children; throngs of people moving past my stall, toward my stall, away from my stall. Most of them are after vegetables, seedlings and food. Maybe also …
I saw a rat on the highway, it was dead, splattered on the asphalt, by car tyres and rain. I wonder, is it the same rat I saw the other day, in front of my wheels, on a dark late night near the same spot? I slowed down and watched it run, over an unfamiliar …
Listen. Listen. Listen. There is an ancient Dance in your veins a rhythm in your Heart – Sri YanchiGuruji 1 Why does it often seem only the privilege of artistic prodigies, the financially secure or even dropouts, to choose to move through the day according to the rhythm of their own inclination? We only seem …
Why do we allow trees to be cut down? Because it makes money (for logging companies and developers). Why do we allow the exploitation and killing of animals? Because it makes money (for the meat- and dairy industries). Why are seeds being patented, making the saving and sharing of seeds a crime? Because it makes …
From my earlobe dangles a praying mantis and a family of rats nests in my nostrils. My pubic hair paves forests with moss, my toenails form bark and fungi. I grow trees from seeds, with deep roots in dark earth, only to snap their branches and trunks in my drunken, heavy storms. With or without …