Tony Watkins

As you get older you pick smaller hills to climb.
Motukorea has all the grandeur and the beauty
of Kangchenjunga, but can be done in one assault
from the food and wine at Karaka Bay basecamp.
 
Join those who dream of greater things but know
that when the clock strikes midnight another decade
will have passed forever.

It was a day when everything happened. Bill Grayson tried to murder me by running me down in his car. I survived by a split second instinct. There was every reason to celebrate being alive.

Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort, of feeling safe with a person. Having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pour them all out, the wheat and the chaff together. Knowing that a gentle hand will sift them, keep what is worth keeping and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away.