Kakapo and Grommets
When do you have to choose between saving a kakapo and inserting a grommet in a child’s ear? When you are a government.
Tag: singing
Real Music, Real Musician
Is classical music more ‘real’ than popular music? There are biases in music, as in every aspect of life. How justified are they?
Singing & Biking
What is the similarity between singing and biking? In the learning, it turns out, as I discovered this week.
Inappropriate Incentives
Having bought an EV which we can charge off our PV panels, for the first time in my life I almost like driving. But is this a good thing?
Bloody Masks
To wear a mask or not? It’s still a question in New Zealand in August 2022, as opposed to Britain where masks were abandoned months ago. Social stigma vs disease avoidance, the choice is hard.
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.
Singing as meditation
In a lockdown we all need new activities to focus on. I’m practicing singing, as well as continuing to garden.
A diverse life
Marie Stopes, born in 1880, was variously a coal geologist, an international advocate for birth control, and a writer. Her diverse life makes Marie one of my heroes, although her belief in eugenics isn’t something I aspire to.
Live for today, plan for tomorrow
I’ve always been one for living life to the fullest and the COVID lockdown has propelled me even further along that path. I’m learning the guitar because I realised music is something I have missed, for a number of decades.