Monthly Archives: July 2010

Wednesday Morning update

It was nice to stand at the kitchen window with Ailsa at my side and watch the sun rise out of the ocean this morning. Right now it is a cloudless day, with the sun reflecting off the mountain snows. … Continue reading

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Saturday Morning

Been quite a week, busy but with me not really being all of my commitments. On Monday spent half the day in a Te Korowai Experts group meeting. Te Korowai is the local Kaikoura Marine Guardians group. I am an … Continue reading

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Tane Mahuta

Guest Post by Laurie Buchanan In responding to “Dancing With Trees” Ted said:  I’m rather fond of trees myself. Found a picture of Ailsa and Jewelia in the foreground, and Tane Mahuta* in the background. Tane is a giant Kauri … Continue reading

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Monday

Not doing well at creating time for blogging – seems to be a lot on. Today spent the morning making breakfast and trying to deal with my daughter’s ipod failing over the weekend – currently very unhappy with apple and … Continue reading

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Friday

Today caught up on a couple of outstanding issues. Produced the DVD of the Trash Fashion show last month, and completed compiling a list of the phone numbers of the Kaikoura boating Club. A bit more to do with that … Continue reading

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Understanding being human Part 2

I made a post today in another forum that was related enough for me to repeat most of it here. It seems to me that there are many aspects to getting a germ of an understanding of what we are … Continue reading

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Great Birthday

This morning started beautifully, and has continued in similar fashion. My sister Pauline and family (Peter and their two boys Andrew & Martin) stayed the night before, and we all went out fishing at 9am on a friend’s boat.   … Continue reading

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Monday Update

Today feeling good. A beautiful sunny day, much like the photo from Saturday. Got all the details from my local GP about all the tests to date, interesting reading. Watched the world cup final this morning, and this afternoon freed … Continue reading

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What is a human?

It seems to me that human beings are amazingly complex entities, in an amazingly complex reality. It seems that our reality started to take shape some 14 Billion years ago. The original stuff of this reality was weird beyond our … Continue reading

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Saturday night thoughts

It is my intention to blog every day from here on. I also intend to do one day on what is happening, what I am doing and feeling, and then on alternate days explore some idea. Today was the first … Continue reading

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