From: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org (chakram-refugees-digest) To: chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Subject: chakram-refugees-digest V6 #142 Reply-To: chakram-refugees@smoe.org Sender: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk chakram-refugees-digest Friday, August 18 2006 Volume 06 : Number 142 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [chakram-refugees] OT newspaper story [KTL ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 17:06:23 -0800 (AKDT) From: KTL Subject: Re: [chakram-refugees] OT newspaper story On Wed, 16 Aug 2006, Mark B. wrote: > My local paper carried an article out of Wellington: > > "Te Arikinui Dame Te Atairangikaahu, Queen of New Zealand's Maori population, > died Tuesday, her family announced. She was 75. respectful snip It was in the Fairbanks Daily News Miner too--now THAT is astounding. The News Miner has like only one and a half pages of international news. I'm thinking that the indigenous culture focus had something to do with that--we're very aware of and involved in Native Nations issues up here. > > I am still amazed at how, through XWP, we learn so much about societies and > cultures [past and present]. This article just jumped out at me! > > Mark Good point. It's also astounding how many strong supporters New Zealand has garnered from Lucy being from there and from the show which so many of us consider a gift in our lives having been produced there. About the only thing I ever knew about New Zealand before my obsession with Xena was that Katherine Mansfield, one of the greatest short story writers I ever read and Ngaio Marsh, who wrote a pretty good, always enjoyable detective series was also from there. (And every single book of hers I ever read said in the liner notes that she was from New Zealand and that "Ngaio means 'flowering tree' in Mauri"). Edmund Hilary? English dude, wasn't he? Anyway, so many of us have expanded our XWP obsession to include obsessing a bit over New Zealand. We are now somewhat expert on it. (At least in our own minds.) Some of us actually read the New Zealand Herald online (okay, many of us just in case there's something on Lucy in it), many of us have journeyed there who had never ever dreamt before of including that destination on our life list. Many of us now support New Zealand charities and take an interest in heck, just about anything En Zed. It's amazing how this show has enriched and expanded so many people. (And I ain't talking physical girth here--most of us fatties were like this before Xena came into our lives. . .) But our minds--they have become fattier. KT ========================================================= This has been a message to the chakram-refugees list. To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe chakram-refugees" in the message body. Contact meth@smoe.org with any questions or problems. ========================================================= ------------------------------ End of chakram-refugees-digest V6 #142 **************************************