tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58533152008-01-21T08:57:23.152-08:00Catezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14514176885131945814noreply@blogger.comBlogger32312512802http://www.feedburner.comThis is an XML content feed. It is intended to be viewed in a newsreader or syndicated to another site.tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5853315.post-22462243965522765242008-01-21T06:37:00.000-08:002008-01-21T08:57:23.189-08:00Catezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14514176885131945814noreply@blogger.com"Even the mediocre can have adventures,and even the fearful can achieve." - Sir Ed Hillary (referring to himself), 1919-2008 I took this photo at 2.00am this morning, after standing in line for an hour and a half. I, like some others I spoke too, had underestimated my fellow Kiwis and thought that there would not be many people there in the early hours. The line outside the Holy Trinity <br/> <br/> Read more...http://allthings2all.blogspot.com/2008/01/goodbye-sir-ed.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5853315.post-79287303969792375822008-01-09T04:02:00.000-08:002008-01-21T08:55:59.380-08:00Catezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14514176885131945814noreply@blogger.comComes a time when one must set the rest of the world right side up. Hence the photo. I'm going to be travelling to stay with relatives and visit some beaches further up the island on the East coast, so I'll be away for a few days. I will come across some more of our road signs on the way. It seems that people read things from the bottom upwards. (Who knew?) This is a standard feature of life <br/> <br/> Read more...http://allthings2all.blogspot.com/2008/01/child-that-mind-and-way-give.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5853315.post-76453640837760363952008-01-06T04:11:00.000-08:002008-01-06T08:28:34.645-08:00Catezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14514176885131945814noreply@blogger.comKnowing they would be perfect for weaving, the flax leaves have tried to put the blue into a basket. The sea is too joyous and will not be contained. It runs out laughing through the channel and does not stop to take stock of the time. I would fly out too, soaring above, but there is wax on my heart wings and the sun shows no partiality. Is no respecter of persons. Look - a festive heart <br/> <br/> Read more...http://allthings2all.blogspot.com/2008/01/achilles-point.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5853315.post-8683799119510754142008-01-01T22:39:00.000-08:002008-01-02T03:59:55.480-08:00Catezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14514176885131945814noreply@blogger.com"O ye who have your eyeballs vext and tired Feast them upon the wideness of the sea" - John Keats, On the Sea Very early and quiet as if there had not been fireworks and Auld Lang Syne just hours before. The street lights are still on as I drive toward the waterfront. Dotted like the last of the Christmas tree, and the sky is beginning to change. The sea is, like the inhabitants who nest by her,<br/> <br/> Read more...http://allthings2all.blogspot.com/2008/01/gentle-beginnings.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5853315.post-30743194944268146412007-09-14T23:35:00.000-07:002007-09-15T00:56:44.289-07:00Catezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14514176885131945814noreply@blogger.comBit of a weird week. Been sick on and off. And this is happening. We've waited four years for this and we're ranked no.1. This is the biggest thing since sliced bread and we're into it. The All Blacks are famous for their haka at the beginning of each game. The haka is a dance, and in the All Blacks case it's a war dance. A challenge. I could wax lyrical on the haka for a couple of thousand words<br/> <br/> Read more...http://allthings2all.blogspot.com/2007/09/its-happening.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5853315.post-7525816297171669172007-09-04T08:21:00.000-07:002007-09-04T17:23:05.841-07:00Catezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14514176885131945814noreply@blogger.comI was scooting about in cyberspace a couple of days ago and came across this post, Christian Indoctrination, written by a 16 year old guy who isn't a Christian and who attends a Christian school. He's attended Christian schools for a total of six years, and has spent four and a half years at his current school. Very interesting post, which I will add has been guest posted on his Mum's blog. Since<br/> <br/> Read more...http://allthings2all.blogspot.com/2007/09/christian-indoctrination-hes-talkin.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5853315.post-16078100517971387032007-09-01T05:23:00.000-07:002007-09-01T08:49:53.329-07:00Catezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14514176885131945814noreply@blogger.comThis has been blowing people away around the world. I was unexpectedly undone by it myself. Turn up your volume. I read my Australian friend Kel's post on this at the X-facta. She has some interesting thoughts and info, and she says: "I recall Sunrise showing the clip the morning after it aired in the UK. I had just turned it on to catch the weather report. The next thing I knew I was sitting <br/> <br/> Read more...http://allthings2all.blogspot.com/2007/09/when-gift-speaks-for-itself.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5853315.post-57886003389046775702007-08-31T07:27:00.000-07:002007-09-01T04:26:41.969-07:00Catezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14514176885131945814noreply@blogger.comThe tribute to Princess Diana today, ten years after her death, brought to mind the same two memories that I always have when I think about her. I always remember what I was doing when I heard she had died, and I remember the day I saw her in person. I'm not a royal watcher but her death was so unexpected, and I realised that somehow, even though I avoided all the tabloid nonsense and latest <br/> <br/> Read more...http://allthings2all.blogspot.com/2007/08/thoughts-on-seeing-princess-diana.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5853315.post-77523696674573718812007-08-30T09:08:00.000-07:002007-09-02T05:42:56.520-07:00Catezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14514176885131945814noreply@blogger.comYes!! The news has just come through from BBC World TV that the seven remaining Korean Hostages have now all been released by the Taliban in Afghanistan. All nineteen hostages who were held hostage are now free! This report has just come through from The Korea Times: "Taliban militants Thursday released the last seven Korean hostages - three men and four women whom they had been holding in <br/> <br/> Read more...http://allthings2all.blogspot.com/2007/08/korean-hostages-all-free-weeping-and.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5853315.post-13304987109386619552007-08-29T06:04:00.000-07:002007-08-31T06:54:41.365-07:00Catezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14514176885131945814noreply@blogger.comUpdate 30-AUG: All nineteen Korean hostages have been released. See end of this post. Excuse me a moment... woohoo! Now here's the news. The Taliban have begun releasing the South Korean Christian Aid workers, and set eight of the hostages free in two groups - first three women were set free in the central town of Ghazni, and and then a group of five, four women and a man, were released in the <br/> <br/> Read more...http://allthings2all.blogspot.com/2007/08/eight-korean-hostages-set-free-and.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5853315.post-12037622498047063882007-08-28T07:56:00.000-07:002007-08-29T09:07:06.884-07:00Catezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14514176885131945814noreply@blogger.comWhat an amazing day! Yesterday was one of those days that we will remember here. For two reasons. Firstly, we've been waiting for three days hoping that Dr. Michael Brewer, who was trapped for three days down in the Middle Earth caves, would be successfully rescued. Last night we saw tv footage from inside Middle Earth as rescuers struggled to try and move Dr. Brewer up to the surface. Dressed <br/> <br/> Read more...http://allthings2all.blogspot.com/2007/08/blood-moon-over-middle-earth.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5853315.post-21062088869356648452007-08-28T05:40:00.000-07:002007-08-30T10:29:32.833-07:00Catezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14514176885131945814noreply@blogger.comGood news! The Taliban have agreed to release the 19 Korean hostages they have been holding hostage. I've just seen this reported on Al Jazeera TV, which said that the Korean govt. agreed to withdraw it's troops from Afghanistan by the end of the year, and to stop Christian missionary work. That's a bit of clever negotiating since the South Koreans had planned to withdraw their troops by the end <br/> <br/> Read more...http://allthings2all.blogspot.com/2007/08/taliban-agrees-to-release-korean.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5853315.post-72265854610054634972007-08-24T15:09:00.000-07:002007-08-30T10:31:05.445-07:00Catezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14514176885131945814noreply@blogger.comI saw this a couple of nights ago on Al Jazeera TV. It's often been said that heroes are "ordinary people who do extraordinary things" and this interview really is like that. The two freed Korean hostages, Kim Kyung-ja and Kim Ji-na, sitting on a bed in a South Korean military hospital, in their pyjamas, speak about how they felt when released by the taliban, and also of their friend who <br/> <br/> Read more...http://allthings2all.blogspot.com/2007/08/heroes-in-our-timefreed-korean-hostages.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5853315.post-91352050375848453992007-08-22T10:25:00.000-07:002007-08-22T13:32:57.024-07:00Catezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14514176885131945814noreply@blogger.comSkytower across the water by MelodiI got the opportunity to spend a night in orbit recently - thanks to the generosity of a relative celebrating a special occasion who decided to treat the family. So into Orbit we went. Three of us travelled in together and we were very amused by the attendant on the ground floor who wanted to know if we had a booking and asked us, "Are you early?" "We're late<br/> <br/> Read more...http://allthings2all.blogspot.com/2007/08/night-in-orbit.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5853315.post-76586249613320350942007-08-22T07:59:00.000-07:002007-08-24T15:28:24.024-07:00Catezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14514176885131945814noreply@blogger.comI just came across this from Chosun.com, who have an update on the still tense and deteriorating negotiations for the Korean aid workers held hostage: "Meanwhile, one hostage gave up her chance to return home to another woman when the Taliban freed two female hostages last week. The woman asked the kidnappers to release the other woman instead of her, saying her health was getting better." Hat <br/> <br/> Read more...http://allthings2all.blogspot.com/2007/08/let-our-people-go-korean-hostage-shows.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5853315.post-14801804287467094552007-08-20T07:53:00.000-07:002007-08-20T09:49:12.837-07:00Catezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14514176885131945814noreply@blogger.com"Pardon me, ma'am," Ally said to the woman with a fur coat and gold jewellery. She'd only been there an hour - long enough to walk to town from the grove where her mother's dimensional portal dropped her. The woman glanced at her and motioned to the man following. He stepped up and hit Ally across the arm with a riding crop. - Dancing in the Ashes, Richard Friesen People have a way of being <br/> <br/> Read more...http://allthings2all.blogspot.com/2007/08/past-life-therapy-good-old-days.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5853315.post-71328310157795708832007-08-17T05:58:00.000-07:002007-08-24T15:25:38.012-07:00Catezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14514176885131945814noreply@blogger.comKim Kyung-ja and Kim Ji-na Credit: BBCI've been keeping the Korean aid team in my thoughts and prayers since first hearing of their kidnapping by the taleban. As you probably know the taleban have murdered two of the team. Two women hostages who were set free have now arrived home, more here from the BBC on that. And isn't it great to see them not wearing those archaic oppressive head scarves.<br/> <br/> Read more...http://allthings2all.blogspot.com/2007/08/two-home-now-let-our-people-go.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5853315.post-28686277587480494632007-08-17T05:04:00.000-07:002007-08-17T09:52:43.109-07:00Catezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14514176885131945814noreply@blogger.comFarout! Well yes, I'm back - but almost wasn't. Thanks to those who have emailed during the unplanned hiatus, which was supposed to be for one week. And sorry for not updating you sooner. I think I have emailed everyone who contacted me during the break - if I missed anyone I'm sorry. I hadn't realised that people were worried about me, and I do apologise for not being more thoughtful. I felt <br/> <br/> Read more...http://allthings2all.blogspot.com/2007/08/back-almost-without-blog.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5853315.post-65287940379198916912007-04-22T08:19:00.000-07:002007-04-22T18:56:46.872-07:00Catezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14514176885131945814noreply@blogger.comI'd like to say thankyou to those who commented and emailed regarding my Aunt passing away. I appreciate your thoughts and prayers at a hard time. I've been doing some reflecting this past week, and as well as grappling with some things in my thoughts I've also been seeking the comfort of God. We have a lot of hilly and mountainous country here in NZ, so I know what it means to literally walk <br/> <br/> Read more...http://allthings2all.blogspot.com/2007/04/from-where-does-my-help-come.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5853315.post-49535040115427642472007-04-22T08:00:00.000-07:002007-04-22T10:07:05.808-07:00Catezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14514176885131945814noreply@blogger.comTrent Reznor of Nine Inch nails wrote and recorded this first. In an interview with Geoff Rickly of Alternative Press he talked about seeing this cover version for the first time, and how he was so blown away by it that his reaction was, "That song isn't mine anymore". It's honest and transparent - and somehow it says something to me about love enduring despite the failings and shortcomings. <br/> <br/> Read more...http://allthings2all.blogspot.com/2007/04/hurt.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5853315.post-18344877380358263742007-04-19T15:26:00.000-07:002007-08-25T00:28:54.947-07:00Catezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14514176885131945814noreply@blogger.comI remember how people protested when Al Jazeera started airing the home made videos of suicide bombers making their final statements. Many felt that broadcasting the videos helped to build a myth that these men were martyrs, and would encourage others to commit acts of terror too. Airing the videos also added further injury to those who had lost loved ones due to the atrocious actions of these <br/> <br/> Read more...http://allthings2all.blogspot.com/2007/04/virginia-tech-will-media-get-real.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5853315.post-74349868208104174742007-04-15T22:26:00.000-07:002007-04-16T01:28:41.719-07:00Catezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14514176885131945814noreply@blogger.comCredit: Patrycja CieszkowskaYou may recall that about three weeks ago I posted about my Aunt being in hospital, and mentioned that she was recovering. Although it first appeared that she would make a recovery, her health declined, and this last week I received the news that she was dying. It was a very difficult week for our family and we had long talks with each other in anticipatory grief. My <br/> <br/> Read more...http://allthings2all.blogspot.com/2007/04/goodbye-auntie.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5853315.post-88720717619440113362007-04-15T05:21:00.000-07:002007-04-15T05:32:56.540-07:00Catezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14514176885131945814noreply@blogger.comI felt like Amanda Witt's post Passion fell into my lap when I came across it last week, after posting my own thoughts on a passion of another kind. I meant to recommend it to you when I first read it - it's beautiful and real.<br/> <br/> Read more...http://allthings2all.blogspot.com/2007/04/passion-that-lifts.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5853315.post-66939276871537568932007-04-06T08:39:00.000-07:002007-04-06T17:32:54.233-07:00Catezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14514176885131945814noreply@blogger.com"Don't you think it's rather funny I should be in this position I'm the one who's always been So calm, so cool, no lovers fool Running every show He scares me so" - Yvonne Elliman, I Don't Know How to Love Him Jesus movies all have their flaws, and Jesus Christ Superstar has some major ones. But have you seen Yvonne Elliman singing I Don't Know How to Love Him? Take a few minutes to watch/<br/> <br/> Read more...http://allthings2all.blogspot.com/2007/04/passion-of-another-kind.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5853315.post-20751403276818051812007-04-06T08:04:00.001-07:002007-04-06T08:46:38.517-07:00Catezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14514176885131945814noreply@blogger.comPhoto Credit: TVNZ I originally posted this on 22 January, 2005. It's been on my mind during the last few days. "I've been losing time As the clock's gone round Did I sleep too late? Have I missed too much?" - Joan Armatrading, 'Is It Tomorrow Yet' Our streetvan hit the streets for our first 2005 cruise on Friday night. It was the same night as the Big Day Out, the annual one-day music <br/> <br/> Read more...http://allthings2all.blogspot.com/2007/04/is-it-tomorrow-yet.html