Posts by Hebe
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Hard News: Nobody wanted #EQNZ for Christmas, in reply to Sacha,
eyeing up
Licking their lips
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Hard News: Nobody wanted #EQNZ for Christmas, in reply to Rob Stowell,
somewhere muddling about in the middle of a long messy business
I like your way of expressing it; muddling about is perfect.
It would good to have southpas convene somewhere sometime.
What was the March 22 commemoration? I don't remember that.
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Hard News: Nobody wanted #EQNZ for Christmas, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
Oh I agree with a lot of that, I'm not expessing what I want to say well today. Having a break; I was going to go to Merivale but...
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Hard News: Nobody wanted #EQNZ for Christmas, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
Can't he just do his own job instead of bullying anyone who disagrees with him which I read is one helluva lot of people and can't Lianne be expressing what people are emailing, writing letters and telling her from their personal experiences? Or am I the one with the hole in my head and is the recovery going just dandy and everyone gets an ice cream
We're pretty bloody fractious down here; and I'm told its part of the usual post-disaster psychological process. The event isn't over though; it's still happening, and GNS said a couple of weeks ago that this could be going for 30 years or so. There's a maelstrom of emotions, everything from a sense of helplessness to anger to impatience to get our lives back together. Families are blowing apart with the stresses.
The politicians are getting the same fall-out in their own selves, and being the target of their voters' ire and trying to deal with many sad cases. Brownlee is bullying off-the-cuff (count to 10 Gerry), Dalziel is trying to help while politicking, Parker is defending his patch, others are raising their profiles off the back of disaster, Sutton seems to have been swallowed by Cera.
What am I trying to communicate? Confusion, lack of unity among our rulers (of all political persuasions), and so many things in people's lives stalled and meanwhile the 12-month insurance deadline hangs over heads, a fiscal hammer waiting to strike. Rents are being auctioned to the highest bidder, and people I know -- rebuilds of destroyed houses on green zone land -- are being told by their insurers that nothing will happen for at least a couple of years. Not many ice-creams I can see, and at five bucks a pop for the Gerry's Container Mall cones I can't be buying them for the family.
Here, just in: Merivale Mall suddenly closes 20 shops (including supermarket)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/christchurch-earthquake/6402961/Shops-evacuated-in-Christchurch-mall -
Hard News: Nobody wanted #EQNZ for Christmas, in reply to Joe Wylie,
Stakeholders and key influencers combining to forge a new paradigm, melding passion, authenticity and thinking outside the (now defunct) Square. Creative leveraging at its catalystic best.
Songsheet suggestions: "A Maven Grace", "How Great I Am".
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Hard News: Nobody wanted #EQNZ for Christmas, in reply to Joe Wylie,
"Pop-up Commemoration"
Oooh you are awful ;-)
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Hard News: Media Mathematics, in reply to linger,
Haden was often wrong, but that didn't stop him arguing . I remember especially bloody exchanges over the use of Maoris rather than Maori.
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Hard News: Nobody wanted #EQNZ for Christmas, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Good points. I don't need manufactured and scripted "closure". I'll do my own, when I'm ready.
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Hard News: Nobody wanted #EQNZ for Christmas, in reply to Islander,
Bugger.
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Hard News: Nobody wanted #EQNZ for Christmas, in reply to Islander,
How does that work?
BTW, found some good recent pics of the Anglican Cathedral on Twitter but I'm unsure of reposting etiquette. By a man called Motmunter.