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A Different Light – 5 October 2019 – Ableism??
PDF version: A Different Light – 5 October 2019-Ableism Ableism is a waiter asking your colleague if you have finished your meal in a restaurant. Ableism is being pushed in a…
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A Different Light – State your piece – Inquiry into abuse in care
A Different Light – 22 September Our very own Cameron Leslie was deservedly front and centre in the Northern Advocate again this week. Front page! The article was about him…
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A Different Light – 7 September 2019 – Different to my Dad
http://tiaho.vpx.energiseweb.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/A-Different-Light-7-September-2019-Different-to-my-Dad.pdf My parents never believed in Fathers’ or Mothers’ Day. They both dismissed the practice of sons and daughters paying homage to their parents on a prescribed day of the…
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A Different Light – 10 August 2019 – Grey Matter
A Different Light – 10 August – Grey Matter Don’t you hate when things won’t work for no apparent reason or when a straight forward plan fails miserably? Like a…
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A Different Light – WORLD TO RITES – 27 July 2019
A Different Light – 27 July 2019 Funerals and Powhiri. I instinctually tend to shy away from such formal and public events. Both occasions generally require me walking in front…
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A Different Light – 13 July 2019 – Free Bird
A Different Light – 13 July 2019 – Free Bird When I was eighteen I could not wait to leave home. I was off to Auckland University with my friend…
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A Different Light – 15 June 2019 – Your Best Shot
A Different Light – 15 June I went for my flu jab yesterday. I had been procrastinating. The feeble logic that flu vaccines give you the flu was vaguely in…
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A Different Light – Mind the Gap Trap – 1 June 2019
A Different Light- 1 June 2019 “Mind the gap. Mind the gap.” This repeated announcement in the London underground tube stations is to warn the vague, the unsteady and the…
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A Different Light – 18 May 2019 – “Being there”
A Different Light – 18 May 2019 There is much anticipation around Finance Minister Robertson’s first budget. There are stakeholders lined up putting pressure on the government to get their…
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A Different Light – 3 May 2019 – So Far So Close
A different Light – 4 May 2019 She was only here for five nights. The last time I saw her was in January on the Gold Coast. I’m one of…
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A Different Light – The Keyboard to education
link: A Different Light – 20 April 2019 My typing is slow. Glacial, in fact. I use one finger and occasionally a thumb. Luckily, I have a PA who does…
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A Different Light – Sleep is hard to find on these balmy, balmy nights
A different Light – 6 April 2019 The past month is likely to be one of the warmest March months on record in New Zealand according to Niwa. When March came…
by JonnyApr 11 No comments
