Neil Dawson's steel sculpture, Chalice, was installed in Christchurch' Cathedral Square in 2000.  It survived the devastating earthquake in 2011, whereas 80% of the surrounding buildings are doomed to demolition.  We went to the Quake City Museum where I felt similarly to my experience of being in the Katrina Museum in New Orleans. Through the…

The air in New Zealand is intoxicatingly pure, the scenery so sharply defined you think you are inside a post card and the late summer sun and temperature is perfection: 70-75 degrees. South Island, especially, is all about the scenery. One of my daughters  joined me for this last two weeks of my trip. We rented…

In the beginning the earth was dark.  The universe was a million million years old.  The Supreme Being circled the dark earth with a ring of light causing the lovers Sky and Earth to begin to separate. The Father Sky and Mother Earth fought  to keep together so the separation was long and bloody. The featured…