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Tragedies to last a lifetime. Powerful writing:-

"New Zealand we need you to have our backs. Aside from practical support which we thank you for, we need you to understand how draining and anxiety-causing these aftershocks are. We need you to give us your strength, kindness and support to help us get through this anxiety-ridden time.

Wherever you live, whatever you do, hold your loved ones close, tell the people you care about what they mean to you, and please, no matter where you are in New Zealand, pack your survival kit - I used to watch those ads and think they didn't apply to me too.

Life is fragile. I stood on the edge of the abyss and peered into the darkness today.

People of New Zealand, let your love be our light now. "

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RIP Johns x3, one a headmaster, one a farmer and the other a milkman, and all in weekend past
(Seraphine Pink, NZ artist)

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With thanks to backintheair

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Lifted off Bill's pages, for the good old days...




Come, my beloved,
consider the lilies.
We are of little faith.
We talk too much.
Put your mouthful of words away
and come with me to watch
the lilies open in such a field,
growing there like yachts,
slowly steering their petals
without nurses or clocks.
Let us consider the view:
a house where white clouds
decorate the muddy halls.
Oh, put away your good words
and your bad words. Spit out
your words like stones!
Come here! Come here!
Come eat my pleasant fruits.

"From the Garden" by Anne Sexton from The Complete Poems.

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Memory banks churning, thanks for posting Alison.

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"Lock up your libraries if you like, but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.'"

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Humble pie on way = ... a new study, scheduled to be released next week by the Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, suggests that using Twitter in class might in fact lead to greater engagement and higher grades "as long as professors harness their students" ;)



Perfect ....


... just try a nibble

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No jumping to any conclusions

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Busy Spring gardening.... cuppa left for LC

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The earth gods rumbling again, while TVNZ reports
" We are going through the motions".




Can You Predict an Earthquake?

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".. I dare you punk"

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Kingfisher (Halycon sancta vagans Maori Name: Kotare)

The New Zealand Kingfisher, also known as the Sacred Kingfisher, is the only species of kingfisher native to New Zealand.

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There is a halcyon day every year. It is the same as the day when Mole, in a fit of boredom, threw down his feather duster and stomped off in search of something else, something outside the confines of domesticity, something twinkling and inviting in the sunshine, promising relaxation and escape, adventure and wilderness - the river. Mole finds it irresistible. More

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Still hanging on by fingertips Cloggy!

:))

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Away playing Nanas in Orklund - back later.....

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