Life in NZ – The First 10 Years (2006 to 2016)

March 10, 2006

Published by bruce at March 10, 2006

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Healing Crisis

We had a really lovely day yesterday here in Pahia in the Bay of Islands. Foregoing packaged activities and just striking off on our own, we discovered a beautiful Maori cemetary on a hilltop and an empty secret beach just down the other ocean-wrapped side of that tiny neck of […]

March 7, 2006

Published by Kathy at March 7, 2006

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We’ve Got Us a Tidy Car!

We are now the proud owners of a silvery-blue 1990 Honda Civic 4-door sedan, 150,000 kilometers (100,500 miles), purchased for the most excellent sum of NZ$1300 (approx US $870). And it came to us with what we like to call ‘a little bit of New Zealand magic’: On Sunday we […]

March 7, 2006

Published by bruce at March 7, 2006

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The Mind is an Emergent Behavior of the Body, the Body is Experienced by the Mind

Some of you may have heard me muttering some such thing in times gone by and hopefully have not been completely perplexed. One of the things I like about New Zealand is that this sentiment, which seems so obscure from our whole western mind/body duality perspective, is much more a […]

March 4, 2006

Published by bruce at March 4, 2006

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Migrant Life – The First Days

Day 2: I’m beat and it’s hard to understand why. Or maybe not. We had a restful day yesterday, our first in NZ. Of course we got off the 13 hour plane trip, negotiated our move in to the backpackers, walked to a (really wonderful) grocery store, shopped, went out […]