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Who's raising who?
On parenting through the generations.
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Thank you for coming to my TEDx talk
(No seriously)
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Poppin' Off Pānui #4 - 117 days to go
In which craft and discipline surrender to mystery, faith and the workings of wairua
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e OHO - Wake up!
Poetry submission to the Ministry for the Environment on the NAP, 2022
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If people aren't listening, you probably aren't speaking their language
Bring in the translators! aka the poets and rappers
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First words: If they don’t come to you, then you might have to go out and meet them
It's not procrastination, it's not science, it's something else entirely
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If we were logical, the future would be bleak
I felt like we needed some light relief this Wednesday - here's Lois, in a throwback from the archives :)
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Poppin' off Pānui #3 - Are we really fucked?
In which I enthusiastically share with you what I'm thinking, reading, watching, making (with a brief eulogy to a beautiful departed friend)
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The myth of 'special treatment' (how not to silence yourself)
It was like an awful, angry, bittersweet gallery of memories and stories. Never any preamble. Just a ricochet of disembodied words, unanswerable questions and occasionally a shard of poetry.
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Poppin' Off Pānui #2
In which I enthusiastically share with you what I'm thinking, reading, watching, making (with an invitation to kaituhi Māori)
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Treasures passed down
Whaea Betz made us think about the things we inherited, and the things we didn’t. It’s difficult to pass on something you did not yourself receive.
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The ones that got away (and how it feels to see them again)
You never love a new place the same way you loved the old place. You must learn to love differently.