Otago Daily Times-The Weekend Mix

Love, courage and hope

GREAT TALES OF AOTEAROA Tom Clarke Bateman Books More than 40 years ago, Tom Clarke was compiling a Today in History New Zealand resource for broadcasters and ended up with 4500 two or threesentence bites of our past. At the same time, I was...

Making space for culture and language

Last week, our whare had a little more lea fakaTonga in it, a little more of the Tongan language. I was more intentional about speaking to my children, encouraging them to respond and making space for conversations that might otherwise be hurried past...

Wind Funnel

By DAVID EGGLETON Swooping over curves of bays and hills, when we do begin falling towards Wellington, through a pocket of air or two, the plane bobs energetically like a ballet dancer. They say the wind’s blowing dogs off chains down there, blowing...

"I am scared. Come get me please."

Nisreen Qawas has developed a technique to help her face the relentless pressures of her job. ‘‘I have this trick called ‘freezing’, which is a kind of defence mechanism that I use for my mind and my body whenever I am in an extreme stress...

COOK'S TROUBLED LEGACY

CAN'T HELP IT