… the reality that the All Blacks come in two forms: the Brazil of the oval ball game, and the panicky, exasperated fumblers of many a World Cup anticlimax. Given licence to play, New Zealand will smash your dreams. Assailed from the first whistle, they will scramble for their patterns and resent the interventions of lesser beings. This is a fault line in All Black rugby…
Fanatic ethnic or religious or national identifications are a little difficult to support when we see our planet as a fragile, blue crescent fading to become an inconspicuous point of light against the bastion and citadel of the stars.
My future starts when I wake up every morning. … Every day I find something creative to do with my life.
Henna Princess:
Ava with her henna tattoo, while at the Diwali Festival at Auckland Viaduct Harbour.
Diwali Stilt Walker:
One of two cool stilt walkers cruising around at the 2009 Diwali Festival at Auckland’s Viaduct Harbour.
The perfect is the enemy of the good.
I shall give you hunger, and pain, and sleepless nights. Also beauty, and satisfactions known to few, and glimpses of the heavenly life. None of these you shall have continually, and of their coming and going you shall not be foretold.