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Zine-making time! Links to download and print at home (inc instructions for hand-binding)
Avoid the mall, give stories for Christmas (perfect activity for a rainy weekend).
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Quick update and three reliable links
One to listen, one to read, one to watch
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Iti te kupu: A few small words (in a vast universe)
The origins of the name for this newsletter
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Starlings-eye View
Do we really occupy different worlds? Or just different imaginations?
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The weight of your own conscience
At what age is it no longer acceptable to look away? (Lois rides again)
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Abandoning Twitter, Facebook's out to pasture, reel tired of IG & TikTok, where shall we connect in real time online?
Substack's answer is a new thing called "chats", everyone's trying it out so I might, too
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The narrative arc of your own life
Making sense of the crazy shit we do
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Poppin' Off Pānui #6: with some unmissable weekend reading/listening
And a fair bit of love for the art of Zines
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Babe, that ain't hard
From the separation diaries: for my solo Māmā doing it tough out there
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Poppin' Off Pānui #5: And a plea to all the tired but talented New Zealand writers on the fence about newsletters
In which I enthusiastically share with you what I'm writing, reading, listening to, thinking, etc.
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Hands fluent in silence
A love song to all the words that have ever been crushed inside the chests of hardworking men