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I'll qualify for 55+ senior discounts in a couple of years.

Yep, I'm getting there.

Well today is Waitangi Day (the signing of the treaty of Waitangi between Maori and the Crown)... Later I might go to the Waitangi day celebrations at the local Marae

This was quite a nice docu that YouTube found for me, enjoyed it, very meditative. It is called The Subtle Art of Losing Yourself and it mixes philosophy, observation of nature, Taoism, mindfulness, a Tai Chi practice into one blended whole. Beautiful.

Festival

Just been to my first "Meat free Monday" meal at our local Sustainability Centre . They hold one every month with people from different ethnic backgrounds cooking meals. This one was special, it was a Lebanese meal, and the money raised was going to the charity Medical Aid for Palestine which operates in both Palestine and Lebanon ..There was a young Palestinian woman there whom I had met before when she came over to the Island last year for our local rally and hikoi. She entertained the dinners with Lebanese and Palestinian songs plus she spoke of the humanitarian crises in both Gaza and Lebanon..

This is a video I posted a while back of her singing at one of the rallies in the city where a young Vietnamese woman had all her hair cut off to raise money for a Palestinian charity.

The words to the song roughly translated into English
"And you, the brave ones, where are you from? Where is Palestine? The spear strikes with the return of beauty. Palestine, and you, the brave ones, where are you from? We are your youth, Palestine. Palestine, we were not created to live in humiliation, We were created to live in freedom. Hand in hand, we stand together for our land, We won't give up our land. Palestine, Arab from 100% to 100%."

Such a beautiful voice...