a prairie girl who collects passport stamps.
Last night, a light went out in the world. South Africa lost its greatest son, Madiba, one of the most courageous and profoundly good human beings this world has ever known. The world was truly fortunate to have Nelson Mandela for 95 years, and his legacy is the peaceful South Africa we see today. In [...]
Whenever I'm lacking motivation, I turn to my favourite source of inspiration - Pinterest. Sure, it's visually stimulating, but I get an extra special kick out of the quotation boards. She designed a life she loved. Follow the call of the disco ball. Remember why you started. Short one-liners are sometimes all I need to [...]
"Cosmopolitanism is an orientation, a willingness to engage with the other. It entails an intellectual and aesthetic openness towards divergent cultural experiences, a search for contrasts rather than uniformity. To become acquainted with more cultures is to turn into an aficionado, to view them as artworks. At the same time, however, cosmopolitanism can be a [...]
"I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale." — F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Ice Palace There are endless reasons why I consider New Zealand my spiritual homeland, many of which I've overzealously documented in this very blog. And lately, [...]
