Written by: Anna Loach
Date: January 29, 2020
During our Christmas Memorial Service in December 2019, one of our celebrants Jenni Bancroft read a beautiful reading about grief. This was a reflection of grief in the worlds of an old seaman from the USA and gives a beautiful message.
In 2000 I was honoured to be deployed with the New Zealand Deforce on the peacekeeping mission to East Timor. East Timor had been under foreign rule through most of its history, and most recently it had been under Indonesian control. Most of the East Timorese wanted to become independent, but there were groups who…
We attended the Positive Aging Expo last weekend, and were impressed with the number and variety of groups and agencies represented. It’s a catchy title – ‘Positive Ageing’. It captures the opportunities available to people despite reaching and surpassing their SuperGold card eligibility date; places to live, places to go, activities to do, groups to…