Singing as meditation
Spring is springing? spronging?, sprunging? in Gibbston, despite Level 4 lockdown. Plants pay no attention to human lockdowns. In fact, spring is […]
Author: Jane Shearer
Back to deep breathing
I wake up on day 2 of our new lockdown and listen to the quiet. It is very very quiet, like when […]
The cage gilding fell off
Well, bugger. We knew delta variant was likely to ‘get in’ to New Zealand, we knew that a rapid lockdown was the […]
Birds in a gilded cage?
This week the New Zealand news headlines featured the IPCC climate change report and the Skegg report on reopening of Fortress New […]
Beating biases
This week my brain has kept on trying to warp my perception of English COVID figures. When Boris threw English doors to […]
Bodies of knowledge
This week the New Zealand academic world has seen a flurry of debate about the intersection between mātauranga Māori – the knowledge […]
Scales of change
I had a minor light bulb moment yesterday when talking with Chris’s sister, Lindie. I have offered pondered the problem of drivers […]
Inflation & interest rates
It was time to pull out my crystal ball to contemplate the future of interest rates and inflation in New Zealand. I […]
Productivity
I found myself fuming today when I read about the Ministry for Business, Innovation Employment (MBIE) being a ‘telly offy’, in regard […]
Third waves
It’s the 7th wave that is supposed to be the big one if you are at sea, or surfing. Let’s hope its […]