This Waitangi Day I feel a mixture of shame and grief. I want to apologize to all the Māori that my ancestors oppressed for all the ways that they created intergenerational trauma on a massive scale, and I want to apologise for my and other tangata tiriti’s complacency in making…

When I was at university I came across Capoiera, and have been to a few classes. It’s physically demanding, making you hold your weight with your arms and legs down on the floor and working your core muscles. It’s one of the few physical activities that really made me watch…

The above quote is in “Gautama Buddha: the Life and Teachings of the Awakened One”, which I am reading at the moment. It is about the life…

Shaving off my attachment to my aversion for my son’s voice aiming to irritate me by saying “nya nya nya nya nya you can’t get me” over and over Shaving off my attachment for having my own way Shaving off my attachment to your approval and “claps” as you read…

We aren’t in control. Nobody has the wheel. This world is so complex, the combination of thousands of combinations. Humanity seems to be hurtling towards the void. Maybe it is. Nobody really knows! This species, this world has a life of its own. Made up of thousands of tiny fractal…

I was at the beach with my son on Boxing Day, and I went for a swim, but he didn’t want to, so we brought a spade and a trowel to make a sand castle. I made a simple base with a moat doing some heavy digging and then left…

Once there was no property. Once there were no words. Everything was one. There wasn’t even a thought process about whether things were one or many. Once we were our bodies. We didn’t treat them as something you need to have a relationship with, or something you could use. We…

My relationship with Chinese Medicine began in Taiwan. Having finished university, wandered around a bit, and still unsure what I really wanted to do with my life, I decided to have an immersive living and working experience teaching English for a year, which ended up being five years. Taiwan is…

Occam’s Razor for Social Systems “Why should we plant when there are so many Mongongo nuts in the world?” Kung San Bushman, quoted in “The Dawn of Everything” I went to Farmers department store today to get a refill for my SodaStream machine so we could again have bubbly water…