Status Updates From A Canoe Before the Wind

They’re [children] are going to go through life and they’re going to have their own issues, and I want them to remember that you can pick yourself up, that you can do what seems impossible.

… but sometimes it’s difficult to decide right from wrong when there’s little food on the table.

If there are things that you don’t like because they challenge you, decide to love them instead. Look at them as something you thirst for and want. Rather than avoiding them, seek them out.

New Zealanders were the ones who overstayed in our country for almost 50 years, but even though we’d been invited here when our people were needed to work in the factories, we were now the overstayers.