by Alice Bulmer | Jul 13, 2016 | Becoming Alice, Music, New Zealand culture, Storytelling
Recently I attended a citizenship ceremony welcoming new citizens to New Zealand. The new kiwi I was accompanying wasn’t exactly fresh off the boat. My husband Matthew Bannister arrived in this country in 1979. After 37 years, he was finally getting around to becoming...
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...
by Alice Bulmer | Oct 30, 2015 | Becoming Alice, Ecology, Family skeletons, Music, Storytelling, Tools of resilience
Saturday afternoon is my favourite time of the week. My ukulele group meets at 4pm. We drink a glass of wine, play ukulele and have fun. For two hours, nothing else matters. Our nine members have a wide range of musical experience – some have been playing for six...
