Chasing the Light, doing the mileage
The spring weather of late here in Wanaka has been very beautiful. Yes, unsettled but interesting and thankfully not the gales too often that underscore spring at 45 degrees south. It’s been very...
View ArticleAn ode to spring
I had to write so I could recite, or sing God forbid It went on into the darkest of a rugby night What is an ode, but a short code Thinking of what and not Right enough to describe the dew of spring...
View ArticleOur lonely symbols of mortality – a reflective trip into the Nevis Valley,...
A bunch of crosses in a populated cemetery can numb my mind if I consider the whole experience of being human, and the collective experiences of all who’ve gone before us to once again return to the...
View ArticleMotion, and impulse
Much has been written about the fact that photography is a two dimensional representation of three dimensional scene, or at least if we walk among our “landscape” it’s not flat! But everything in my...
View ArticleA journey from the body and mind, to the heart and soul
Almost a decade ago I found myself embroiled in a marriage breakup, and because there was a child involved the situation rolled into the realm of the New Zealand Family Court system. For me the events...
View ArticleAll over the place: Makarora, Bendigo, Carrick Range, The Snow Farm, Wanaka,...
Since my last posting way back in autumn much has been happening, not to mention some sort of profound spiritual sort of growth. I’m hesitant to use this much over-used, even abused word “spiritual”,...
View ArticleThinking verses Opening the Heart
Dear Readers You may have noted I don’t post here as often these days. Well, it’s because I’ve stopped thinking in terms of trying to make sense of a few things – so there is less intellectualising,...
View ArticleDunedin ~ Ballet and the arts, the botanic gardens, and the Otago Peninsula
I’m just back from a spontaneous trip to Dunedin. One of the reasons for another visit to this always enjoyable city was to attend the Imperial Russian Ballet Company performing Swan Lake… the most...
View ArticleIntuition, art, search and rescue, and my 4th attempt to ski tour Mt Pisa
Last week one of my readers noted I’d not done a philosophical post for awhile. Well… a few things happened mid week that lend themselves to this topic! Out of the blue I’ve been voted onto the...
View ArticleAn Otago Odyssey into 2013
This post was hopefully the first of a few chronicling my mind-set and journeys of late, but having got this far I think I’ll keep it short and just post photos for awhile. To much navel gazing...
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