Take me back to the mountains
We avoided COVID and discussions about it in the mountains with friends. The boundary between civilisation and desperation is thin – mountains make it more bearable.
Tag: New Zealand
Are we still not nearly there?
Who isn’t tired of the pandemic, while wondering how bad Omicron is going to be? When will the world accept the number of deaths caused by COVID and end the major restrictions? Maybe we should ask the politicians?
Connections
Connections are one of my favourite things – connections new and rediscovered between people, connections between ideas, and connections between people generating ideas.
Valuable rags & rusty nails
How do you have a congruent life, where what you want to do and what you think you ought to do are the same thing? And when might you wish someone would give you a rusty nail?
South American planning
So many uncertainties in COVID times. Should we take a South American approach to planning, see what comes, rather than my preferred plan-well-in-advance?
Omicron and freedom
We are having a New Year party – should we require people show their vaccine passports? I’m big on freedom to act but I also don’t want to facilitate a mass spreading event…what to do?
Different perspectives
One day it looks like the end of COVID lockdowns is in sight, the next day we hear about Omicron. I need to think about things other than COVID to get some perspective, such as the view from a mountain.
Keeping an open mind
How do you keep your mind open to new ways of doing things and new knowledge? And why might Ivermectin reduce COVID deaths?
Funny and not so funny
New Zealand still doesn’t have endemic COVID-19, unlike much of the world. There’s a feeling of, can we just get it and move on? Except people who get very sick or die won’t be doing the sort of moving on I’m hoping for.
Some animals are more equal than others
Ethics – a tricky subject. Are all animals equally valuable? Are all humans equally valuable? Are they more or less or the same degree of valuable than animals? Is humans seeing themselves as outside the natural world a fundamental error?