Mount Awful (2192m) on the left as seen from Gillespie Pass, Mount Aspiring National Park, New Zealand 🇳🇿.
Bivi at 1285m looking across Young Valley. -2 degrees Celsius during the night.
Looking towards Young Basin, Young valley, Mt Aspiring National Park, New Zealand. 🇳🇿
Upper Caples Hut, Caples valley, New Zealand.
McKellar Saddle, Greenstone, New Zealand.
Today’s mood music: The Doors - People are Strange
McKellar Saddle, Greenstone, New Zealand.
Petroica Australis, South Island robin, Caples valley, New Zealand.
Road rage
My own experience of road raging has been much helped when I woke up to how my own ‘shoulding’ and ‘shouldn’ting’ was making me angry.
I noticed more and more that my anger was the result of me focusing my attention on what other people ‘should’ or ‘shouldn’t’ be doing and then judging them as being ‘wrong’ or ‘bad’.
For me this has been such a beneficial shift in understanding and awareness.
This place never gets old, taken from Caples valley. #NewZealand #Aotearoa
Bush basher boots.
Today’s mood music - Van Halen - Dance the night away.
Dahlia.
Today’s mood music: Kate Bush, Running up that hill.
Today’s mood music: Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit, Live from Woodstock 1969
When we don’t know how to directly and clearly express what we need, but can only make analyses of others that sound like criticism to them, wars are never far away - whether verbal, psychological, or physical. #nonviolentcommunication
It’s important to remember that many people suffer invisibly, and some of the worst suffering is shame and guilt. Not everyone can make their pain legible.
Today’s mood music: Sleaford Mods, Bang someone out.
Today’s mood music: House of Pain - Jump Around