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Coming to the end of a rug
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...
Mangroves: forests on the foreshore
Mangroves aren't one of nature's cuddly or conventionally beautiful organisms. In New Zealand mangroves are both a protected native species and a pest. This is a post about appreciating our local mangroves: Avicennia marina subsp australasica, also called manawa, the...
A Matter of Life and Death (2): Dear Eva
"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 Eva and Sam;...