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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…
by JonnyJul 29 No comments -
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…
by JonnyJul 16 No comments -
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…
by JonnyJun 17 No comments -
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…
by JonnyJun 4 No comments -
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…
by JonnyMay 20 No comments -
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…
by JonnyMay 6 No comments -
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…
by JonnyApr 29 No comments -
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 -
A Different Light – Pray, Love, Forgive – 23 March 2019
The sheer enormity and horror of the massacre last Friday kept growing by the hour. It was hard to get your head around. It still is. Fifty people (at the…
by JonnyMar 26 No comments -
A Different Light – 9 March 2019 – Love is a four-legged word
A Different Light – 9 March 2019 Heck! That’s pretty impressive, I think as I eye our two dogs. They are tiny. They are hairy. They bark a lot. Are…
by ArleneMar 11 No comments -
A Different Light – 9 February 2019
A Different Light – A Spoon Full of Sugar I got feedback on social media on my last column to the effect “actually please can you start writing about Disabilities…
by JonnyFeb 13 No comments -
A Different Light – Hard to be bad when you’re known
A different Light – 26 January 2019 A Different Light – 26 January 2019 As I was careering down Bank Street the other day on my mobility scooter, wearing a…
by JonnyJan 30 No comments
