manganese blue

Today I discovered manganese blue.

There is nothing more wonderful than seeing people doing what they are passionate about.

New Zealanders have been described as the passionless people in The Passionless People: New Zealanders in the 1970s (Gordon McLaughlan, 1979). Not true, I say... but maybe there is an element, a tiny grain of truth in it. Is that why some of us leave, do we answer a call to follow our passions elsewhere?

Google links (after googling The Passionless People) threw up some interesting reading about New Zealanders in research from Lincoln University.

Are we still a passionless people? This blog post from Peter Verstappen, a New Zealand writer, asks the same question.

Today I am grateful for passionate people.