Category: Musings and Miscellany
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#gopeaceable – vision of a global grassroots movement
Imagine a day, not too far off, when each encounter you have is met with empathetic understanding. The person who has mistakenly tail-ended your car, the phone company employee, the government official, the person whose view on vaccination differs from your own, each listen with care to what you have to say. What if, for…
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#letsbepeaceable – a vision for a viral grassroots movement
Imagine a day, not too far off, when each encounter you have is met with empathetic understanding. The person who has mistakenly tail-ended your car, the phone company employee, the government official, the person whose view on vaccination differs from your own, each listen with care to what you have to say. What if, for…
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January 2021: a journal
1st Jan. As the new year opens, I, like a moko kakariki (local green gecko), appear afresh, a glorious healthy green, after a skin slough. The joys and the challenges of 2020 are behind, no going back, and in my new skin I’m so ready for this new beginning. Upload filesMedia Library 2nd Jan. I’ve…
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ROADSIDE CANS & BOTTLES – ARE WE STUCK?
THE NATURAL WORLD – SACRED OR SECULAR? I’m cycling the beautiful Taranaki Surf Highway, pondering how car drivers feel okay tossing out their trash. ‘Do they believe it miraculously disintegrates? Or feel they are kindly creating jobs for others to search for litter in roadside drains? Perhaps its just that well-engineered, hermetically sealed and air-conditioned…
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HOW IT ALL STARTED
Facebook Post 28/6/16 PLASTIC-FREE JULY – A PERSONAL TALE by Jane Banfield. I’ve signed up for the whole month of July. To quit single-use plastic. 3 months ago I’d never even heard of single-use plastic. Now what’s going on? I’m an addict, I can see that. To single-use plastic. What I can’t see is how…
Zero Waste Granny 