SEPARATE REALITIES

by gillychater March 3, 2011 Uncategorized

Yesterday I met with a manager who has spent the last week in Christchurch helping and supporting the managers and staff of his company’s facility there.  Fortunately everyone is safe as are their families with different degrees of damage to their homes.  He said to me he was surprised by the different behaviours of people.  [...]

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COMFORT FOOD

by gillychater February 27, 2011 Uncategorized

It is in times of distress or illness that we turn to our favourite comfort food.  We are seeing and hearing about people in the South Island cooking hot meals for those people who are displaced and without power or water.  Even helicopters are being used to deliver the meals. It is not a time for gourmet [...]

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A KICK IN THE GUT

by gillychater February 24, 2011 Uncategorized

All the people of New Zealand, wherever they are in the world, are in deep shock and mourning the loss of people they may or may not know.  It seemed that the wonderful stoic citizens of Christchurch were getting back on their feet again and now this devastaing earthquake has changed lives and the city forever.  [...]

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