A new way of eating. Vegetables in the am with breakfast oatmeal with chocolate and blueberries, and an omelette using the leftover veggies with olive bread toast for dinner. A more relaxed way of eating, giving ourselves more time for rest and relaxation, just like the Kiwis do.
Their lives are not rushed, they are patient, sweet, and kind. They have well trimmed, well maintained sheep and cow farms and even by their roads – trees are well trimmed and roads are constantly maintained to keep them in good repair.
In grocery stores, there’s no use of plastic and trash everywhere is recycled if bottles, cans, cardboard boxes; plant and fruit peelings are composted, and hardly any for trash unless in their airports that look like a food court, a shopping corridor, rest areas with couches and play areas for children. Would LAX ever be like this – determined to keep passengers fed, rested and relaxed before on-time departure?
New Zealand is family-oriented, and families walk in their uncrowded, clean, unlittered beaches and where wrinkled, old, gray, white-haired folks are vigorously walking in their shorts and men love to wear colored scarves and flower designed shirts. They are easy going, relaxed, serious in facial demeanor yet approachable, friendly, open and no one with two faces – so so genuine! I love it here, my soul is at peace. But for my family, relatives, friends and neighbors, I would love to live here. Their television daily shows are funny, with game shows like jeopardy.
No wonder the Robertsons split their time annually between New York and New Zealand and donated 15 of their art pieces to NZ’s art museum by artists like Monet, Van Gogh.
NZ’s City Council valued the gift at $167 million, and art gallery is funded by City Council with hourly docent tours. “The sturdiest pillars of European Modernism are present in the gift – Paul Gauguin, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Henri Matisse, Salvador Dali, Fernand Léger, André Derain, Pierre Bonnard and Piet Mondrian.”