by Alice | Jul 13, 2016 | Becoming Alice, Music, New Zealand culture, Storytelling
Recently I attended a citizenship ceremony welcoming new citizens to New Zealand. The new kiwi I was accompanying wasn’t exactly fresh off the boat. My husband Matthew Bannister arrived in this country in 1979. After 37 years, he was finally getting around to becoming...
by Alice | Mar 6, 2016 | Becoming Alice, Ecology, Life and death, Storytelling
“Death is not the opposite of life. Life has no opposite. The opposite of death is birth.” – Eckhart Tolle. Last week I was writing about death; this week it’s birth. Two babies have recently arrived in my extended family. Tawari was born in December, to...
by Alice | Oct 30, 2015 | Becoming Alice, Ecology, Family skeletons, Music, Storytelling, Tools of resilience
Saturday afternoon is my favourite time of the week. My ukulele group meets at 4pm. We drink a glass of wine, play ukulele and have fun. For two hours, nothing else matters. Our nine members have a wide range of musical experience – some have been playing for six...
