When I was younger, travel writing was all text. Long, unhurried accounts with a few photo plates lodged somewhere in the middle of the books, as if to rest the eyes. You travelled first through sentences, not pixels. Now, the world prefers images that flicker and vanish before the thought even forms. But standing amid … Continue reading Thailand: Where Time Loiters Gracefully
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Ending the Circus
Some conversations in Aotearoa New Zealand are like the tide. They come in with urgency, full of froth and promise, and then slide back out, leaving only the faint trace of where they had been. The capital gains tax is one such wave. One half of the political shoreline prefers to let it roll away, … Continue reading Ending the Circus