“Travel is the traveler.”
Quote from Portuguese author Fernando Pessoa in The Book of Disquiet:
“Life is what we make of it. Travel is the traveler. What we see isn’t what we see but what we are.”
Feeding the eels
Kiwi spotting
Can you find the real kiwi bird of Eketehuna, New Zealand? There are only about 70,000 left in the country, although there are programs that are dedicated to improving the odds of the survival of baby kiwis. Volunteers steal eggs laid in the wild, incubate and hatch them in a lab, raise them for a few months, then release them back into the wild. That process raises the babies’ chances for survival from around 5% (due to predators like stoats and dogs) to 70–90% once they are large enough to defend themselves.
From New Zealand composer Douglas Lilburn’s talk “A Search for a Language” in 1969: “for the first time in history, we are confronted with our total musical heritage … Under this new weight of history and global awareness, and this constant impact of new sound and new theory, it may become more difficult for composers to realise their own identity … Is there a danger that we become involved in keeping well-informed, and have too little time and necessity for that creative brooding on facts of our own experience which might energise and give substance to whatever language we may formulate?”
