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‘Regret and remorse. Amends and atonement. That’s life, right?’
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So intones the gravelly voice of the sinister DJ that accompanies us through the 2015 horror road movie ‘Southbound‘ (Soapbox/Willowbrook Regent Films). The film is an interlocking montage of five stories involving travellers on a desolate, arid highway. The DJ voice-overs appear through the film, providing tough love and counsel,…
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Choose Your Own Adventure
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When I was in primary school, me and my mates loved the Choose Your Own Adventure books. At the end of each chapter, you had to make a choice, and your story would head off in one of two different directions. Since my midlife crisis started, I have often found…
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Honour Them With Peace
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Written in brass on the flagstones of the War Memorial in Auckland are the words ‘Honour Them With Peace’. Is there any more fitting way to commemorate those who gave their lives for us?
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The kindness of strangers
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City living can be a lonely experience at the best of times, let alone during the Corona lockdowns. Despite this, an anonymous person still managed to bring some cheer to a grimy apartment block in Auckland.
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Reuse, reuse, reuse (reuse, reuse), New Zealand
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In a throwaway world of single-use packaging, I discovered that re-using resources is still alive and well in rural New Zealand.
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Reducing and reusing in Raglan, New Zealand
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Driving home from a morning surf, I heard an ad on the radio in Raglan for home delivery of milk in glass bottles. Now we Aussies might be prone to poking fun at our Kiwi cousins for being a bit behind the times, but in this case I reckon we…
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Lessons from Dad
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When we were kids, we thought Dad knew everything. Even when I was in my forties, and Alzheimer’s Disease was taking him from us, I was still learning lessons from Dad.