Little things can have huge impacts, as in our toilet cistern, where manufacturing flaws result in serious water wastage. Or the Hubble Telescope where a 1.3mm error resulted in blurred images from a multi-billion dollar installation.
Christmas and primary school folk dancing are intertwined in my head as occasions where it is required to have fun. Being required to have fun is no fun at all. Why can’t I just relax and enjoy the season?
Humans are capable of such amazing feats, both of creation and destruction. Gold miners built water faces across mountain faces in pursuit of the precious metal in the Wakatipu and vaccines are being developed apace in the face of the COVID pandemic.
Rising house prices and unaffordable housing – a decadal problem in New Zealand (and much of the world) that appears intractable to the economic policy approaches governments use to solve it.
Problem solving can require a different view, like on a recent mountain bike ride. I’d tackled the same rock the same wrong way, year after year. It took someone else with a new method to show me what was possible.
Hope is sold in many forms – at container stores, through politicians promises and by vaccine companies. Let’s hope Pfizer’s promises are more robust than Trump’s.
Why does the voting in the US election differ substantially from the poll results? Could be the polls were wrong. Or it could be the polls influenced people to act differently.
In New Zealand we are travelling while, in the rest of the world, people are in lockdown as COVID cases spike. Right now things are good as people to have money they aren’t spending on international travel to put into art, domestic travel, and moving house to somewhere outside Auckland.
Jacinda Ardern’s quote, “They are us”, was spoken in the aftermath of the Christchurch mosque attacks and resonated around the world. In contrast, Trump was been selected as the most divisive US president ever in 2017 – he prefers ’them’ to ’us’. I know which country I would rather live in.
Why are people so reluctant to accept endings? Everything eventually need to end to make room for the new, bike trips, ideas and organisations alike.
