So today I helped out some beautiful souls move house.. By bike. I went along cause they're lovely & I wanted to help, but also for the novelty & adventure. It was a great experience but also a magic lesson on the importance of community.
Somewhere between 10 an 15 folks descended on this event, some total strangers also keen on the novelty. I spent today deepening connections with some very cool people, learnt some great insights to cargo transport on bike, met some awesome new folk, had some fab kai..
acquired a new game (which M6 loves), but most of all got a reminder on how fulfilling it is to connect with others, even it's for something as mundane as a house move. Making it by bike made the mundane an event and connected us all. I might not be articulating this well, but..
Think there's something magic in here. Cars typically isolate, sure the typical house move can have moments of connection as you load the truck. But we all shared the experience today, waiting for each other through intersections, running around looking for a pump, this was...
Ā group shared experience & I feel enriched because I participated. Spirituality has been defined as being part of something greater than ourselves. A simple act of helping move house today connected me in such a way. Ngā mihi mātou for te eke pahikara roopu. #AklBikeLife
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Appreciate there's a tension in my view here, but I really believe this base education of tau iwi, or at least the heavy lifting needs to be done by senior or experienced tau iwi from the sector, not Māori. It needs Māori governance to ensure the pace and direction is right, and
The voice of Māori should be from Māori but do we seriously expect the effort and energy for decolonisation to come from those most impacted by colonization? #BeGoodTiritPartners
I always like the analogy of a regular interpersonal relationship, cause most of us are familiar with them. But imagine you've moved in with someone you love. They've been in a long term abusive relationship and still carry trauma. Their house is battered and damaged from the
So I thought that this was a great question but I had more that I wanted to say than would fit in a Tweet reply, so sorry Shawn (@swampy_kiwi , here's the long version.
So we dipped out toes into the cargo bike world with a Ezee Roadrunner, a version of an Xtracycle that, while an entry level, was a well designed workhorse that transformed our lives..
I got lots of time back commuting instead of taking public transport. I took our daughter everywhere, and started to find new adventures that changed how I spent time with M5
PSA: Boys everywhere, play with dolls! This is good for you in many ways but aside from that a percentage of you may one day be parents, and some of that group will be parents of kids who regardless of expectations and attitudes will want to play with dolls and will want you to..
Play with them. And it's then that you'll realize you haven't developed the skills to improvise and imagine in the way necessary to make a valuable contribution to this activity. And when you have to tell your child you don't know how to play this game, and they look at you like
You've forgotten how to walk.. You'll realize that while it's not too late, it would have been easier to build on the skills you once had. So encourage your kids to play, it's of generational benefit, play with your kids and make that normal and if you're expecting...