We are in Wellington, where we use to live and it is my place, the place where I feel at home. There are poems up on the waterfront about Wellington and one calls this beautiful city the headquarters of the verb and it so is, I love the way both the landscape/hills and the weather/wind…
Tag: History
Hope..
That’s what it felt like this morning… …when Nelson Boys college turned up and did a haka, when the Head Girl at Nelson Girls did a karakia then spoke so articulately, when Nelson Central School turned up with their school banner, Hope Primary School in their sports uniform so you knew it was their school,…
School on sunday..
Today is the 100th anniversary of the end of world war 1. I had no intention of commemorating it. I spend a lot of my time helping children work out ways of solving problems without violence, and they can and they don’t have fully developed brains. But there was a lot of conversation about it…
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