Scales of tragedy
How tragic is a ‘natural’ disaster? Does it depend on what is lost? Or when it happened? Is sadness about natural disasters another tilt at preventing inevitable change?
Tag: tramping
Enumeration
I’m on top of Mt Alta. Do I need to know how many minutes it took me to get there? Or how high I have climbed? Has technology addicted us to counting things that don’t matter?
Trigger Warnings
‘Trigger warnings – useful flag, cotton wool coddling or statements without impact? There are as many opponents as adherents. Which are you?
Finding Your Path
We’re all looking for our path, including when we are staggering up a steep slope covered with tree fall. However, there’s nothing that beats the satisfaction of getting to the top of the mountain.
The value of risk
What is an appropriate balance between risk and safety? When can and should you make your own decisions in the mountains? Our Slovenian experience.
Fluid Narratives
How have our stories about vaccination changed over time? Here’s our current story, as told to our antivax friends.
FB – my actions & reactions
How do we control our use of social media? Its set up to make us salivate like Pavlovian dogs on the basis of intermittent rewards.
‘Real’ scary as an antidote
When existential threats seem overwhelming, doing something scary in New Zealand’s back country is a great antidote – Rabbit Pass.
Ladders, snakes & lakes
We went tramping – a great rejuvenating break. Then we returned to an announcement of New Zealand going back into red light mode. The last two years with COVID has felt like a game of snakes and ladders.