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Then a lion came prowling out of the jungle and ate the feminist all up.

So true for so many women, it's almost painful

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We had a #NewZealand lunch today:
- Homemade fish and chips (not pictured). Apparently, it's as much a thing over there as in the UK, and once I'd mentioned it, any other possibility (boil-up...) was immediately downvoted 😮
- And for dessert, a homemade pineapple, kiwi and kumquat pavlova, which looks a mess but was delicious 😋
Still enjoying the tagged poetry collection.

Haka by Apirana Taylor, a poem found in the tagged book, and which could only come from #NewZealand

when I hear the haka
i feel it in my bones
and in my wairua
the call of my tipuna
flashes like lightning
up and down my spine
it makes my eyes roll
and my tongue flick
it is the dance
of earth and sky
the rising sun
and the earth shaking
it is the first breath of life
eeeee aaa ha haaa

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It's been 7 years almost to the day since my mother passed away, but this poem still made me tear up.