by Alice Bulmer | Oct 23, 2016 | Becoming Alice, Ecology, Family skeletons, Life and death, New Zealand culture
Susan Evelyn Bulmer (nee Hirsh); February 17, 1933 – October 6, 2016; Archaeologist I’ve written about my mother, Sue, elsewhere on this website: Songs to Remember and The Family Bat. Last week my beautiful, brave, creative, energetic, passionate, wonderful, crazy,...
by Alice Bulmer | Oct 4, 2016 | Ecology, Food, Wellbeing
It’s important that those of us who care about food quality get our heads clear about why we need organic certification. Recently I’ve been hearing a lot of people dissing organics. Some say, “Organic certification is just too hard and expensive.” Others say,...
by Alice Bulmer | Aug 14, 2016 | Becoming Alice, Ecology, Family skeletons, textiles
It took me a few weeks to get around to finally saying farewell to the Mormor rug. (See my earlier post: Coming to the end of a rug.) It felt really hard to let it go. But in the end, taking it apart was much easier than I had expected. I started unpicking from the...
by Alice Bulmer | Jul 13, 2016 | Books, Ecology, Music, Tools of resilience
Niki Harre’s book Psychology for a Better World is about how to make sustainability sustainable. “The bottom line is that as change agents, if we don’t offer people happiness, they won’t be attracted to what we do, and they won’t stick with the activity we’re...
by Alice Bulmer | May 23, 2016 | Becoming Alice, Ecology, Family skeletons, Life and death, textiles
In my living room there is a beautiful handmade rug. It’s a traditional Scandinavian braided rug, made by plaiting long strips of recycled cloth and then coiling the plaits together and hand sewing them into a flat oval rug. This labour of love was created by my...
by Alice Bulmer | Mar 6, 2016 | Becoming Alice, Ecology, Life and death, Storytelling
“Death is not the opposite of life. Life has no opposite. The opposite of death is birth.” – Eckhart Tolle. Last week I was writing about death; this week it’s birth. Two babies have recently arrived in my extended family. Tawari was born in December, to...
