tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-331387862011-04-22T10:28:27.233+12:00The blog title is self explanatory. I am a born skeptic - but also an eternal optimist - I WILL question everything, as I come across it in my lifeLiam Shcmiamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12845304687837562764noreply@blogger.comBlogger101100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33138786.post-46278288256889191292009-04-27T06:59:00.004+12:002009-04-27T07:27:19.354+12:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_998KrF9Ggxw/SfS1EnfmDJI/AAAAAAAAACI/v-XWOs9EB1E/s1600-h/PC310110.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_998KrF9Ggxw/SfS1EnfmDJI/AAAAAAAAACI/v-XWOs9EB1E/s400/PC310110.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5329083350011743378" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_998KrF9Ggxw/SfSzQjJpZDI/AAAAAAAAACA/5T4SbMOKILE/s1600-h/P1012590.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_998KrF9Ggxw/SfSzQjJpZDI/AAAAAAAAACA/5T4SbMOKILE/s400/P1012590.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5329081355981120562" border="0" /></a><br />We are subordinate to our landscape, to our environment.<br />Attempts at domination are futile<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33138786-4627828825688919129?l=i-will-question-everything.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Liam Shcmiamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12845304687837562764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33138786.post-91795469665993396992007-11-24T22:08:00.000+13:002007-11-24T22:22:11.548+13:00<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_998KrF9Ggxw/R0ftAPhzuEI/AAAAAAAAAA0/BKDlnQciEH4/s1600-h/Spring+2007+024.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5136334488463456322" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_998KrF9Ggxw/R0ftAPhzuEI/AAAAAAAAAA0/BKDlnQciEH4/s400/Spring+2007+024.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_998KrF9Ggxw/R0ftAfhzuFI/AAAAAAAAAA8/gzQYv-k47mo/s1600-h/Spring+2007+030.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5136334492758423634" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_998KrF9Ggxw/R0ftAfhzuFI/AAAAAAAAAA8/gzQYv-k47mo/s400/Spring+2007+030.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_998KrF9Ggxw/R0ftBfhzuGI/AAAAAAAAABE/9A0SERa6KYY/s1600-h/Spring+2007+025.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5136334509938292834" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_998KrF9Ggxw/R0ftBfhzuGI/AAAAAAAAABE/9A0SERa6KYY/s400/Spring+2007+025.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div>Climb a Mountain NOW!!<br />...Puts it all in perspective<br />...reclaims sanity</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33138786-9179546966599339699?l=i-will-question-everything.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Liam Shcmiamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12845304687837562764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33138786.post-67133833226292820282007-11-24T21:49:00.001+13:002008-05-27T10:57:11.340+12:00<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_998KrF9Ggxw/R0fpkvhzuCI/AAAAAAAAAAk/LsfmlzUjeHY/s1600-h/Spring+2007+036.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5136330717482170402" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_998KrF9Ggxw/R0fpkvhzuCI/AAAAAAAAAAk/LsfmlzUjeHY/s400/Spring+2007+036.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_998KrF9Ggxw/R0fplfhzuDI/AAAAAAAAAAs/9GLoeEWGob4/s1600-h/Spring+2007+033.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5136330730367072306" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_998KrF9Ggxw/R0fplfhzuDI/AAAAAAAAAAs/9GLoeEWGob4/s400/Spring+2007+033.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div>find a black sand beach</div><br /><div>then leave it all behind you</div><br /><div>and face the madness<br /><br />(- these two pics were taken 20hrs and 30 kms apart!-)<br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33138786-6713383322629282028?l=i-will-question-everything.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Liam Shcmiamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12845304687837562764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33138786.post-63065340464032359112007-07-05T07:25:00.000+12:002007-07-05T07:43:32.036+12:00<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_998KrF9Ggxw/Rov0q2IotlI/AAAAAAAAAAc/DWlU8fBIdMA/s1600-h/i196130592_57960.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5083425621341156946" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_998KrF9Ggxw/Rov0q2IotlI/AAAAAAAAAAc/DWlU8fBIdMA/s400/i196130592_57960.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />As the world trips up,<br />how do we stop falling?<br />- lean in, take a step<br /><br />Silver horizon<br />Rain kissed wreckage, submerged rocks<br />Noah is drowning<br /><br />stove tops, ponga fronds...<br />spirals wind... and release me<br />dipping paddle swirls<br /><br />Those leprachaun eyes<br />Be off with you, o’er green hills<br />To dance upon tombs<br /><br />Soup; warm as lovers<br />I found you in my toaster<br />Avocado smooth<br /><br />A kitchen diamond?<br />And my carbon footprint was…<br />Just the soul of your choux<br /><br />Pancakes in the pan<br />...Coffee in my favourite cup<br />(missing the syrup)<br /><br />Antisept the wound<br />Cold silverhaven heart stills<br />Solstice suffering<br /><br />aint complicated<br />Fire &amp; ice, hissing heart melts<br />Sublimation blues<br /><br />Ocean in my shirt<br />Heart wave heaving, Neptune freed<br />Salt in my creases<br /><br />when silence falls<br />beacon candles burn down low<br />heart shadows flicker<br /><br />Manukau sunset<br />from up a green volcano<br />over sewage ponds<br /><br />mussel encrusted<br />a broken mooring washed up<br />this is how life goes<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33138786-6306534046403235911?l=i-will-question-everything.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Liam Shcmiamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12845304687837562764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33138786.post-62137765746960547832007-06-26T10:19:00.000+12:002007-06-26T10:34:20.174+12:00<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_998KrF9Ggxw/RoBCrN44A9I/AAAAAAAAAAU/J1sjfCr9Y9g/s1600-h/Georgias+eyes.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5080133689903940562" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_998KrF9Ggxw/RoBCrN44A9I/AAAAAAAAAAU/J1sjfCr9Y9g/s400/Georgias+eyes.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div>whilst black flows the Brook </div><br /><div>like death - my heart feels empty</div><br /><div>...waiting to be filled</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33138786-6213776574696054783?l=i-will-question-everything.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Liam Shcmiamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12845304687837562764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33138786.post-1169097603295958292007-01-18T18:10:00.000+13:002007-01-18T18:20:03.296+13:00<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/2977/3634/1600/938140/P1080303.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/2977/3634/400/327115/P1080303.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />...then took the kids up to the base of mount Sefton - and saw tectonics in action. We felt the true tenuousity of this planet we ride together... we are truly very, very insignificant. We can't change the world - but we can change the reality we live in!!! - the resolution for 2007 is GET REAL<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33138786-116909760329595829?l=i-will-question-everything.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Liam Shcmiamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12845304687837562764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33138786.post-1169096932017135462007-01-18T17:51:00.000+13:002007-01-18T18:08:52.026+13:00<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/2977/3634/1600/838484/P1050252.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/2977/3634/320/769157/P1050252.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/2977/3634/1600/269030/P1070280.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/2977/3634/320/822524/P1070280.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Big trip down into the Central South Island.<br />Climbed right up amongst the glaciers and stayed under a huge rock .<br />Came across a herd of cows on the way [as you do]<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33138786-116909693201713546?l=i-will-question-everything.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Liam Shcmiamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12845304687837562764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33138786.post-1161143244372420022006-10-18T16:27:00.000+13:002006-10-18T16:54:15.293+13:00<div align="left"><span style="font-size:130%;">Tapae-o-oenuku</span><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2977/3634/1600/Pa100040.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2977/3634/320/Pa100040.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2977/3634/1600/Pa090022.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2977/3634/320/Pa090022.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2977/3634/1600/Pa090016.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2977/3634/320/Pa090016.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2977/3634/1600/Pa080011.jpg"><img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2977/3634/320/Pa080011.jpg" border="0" /></a> </div><div align="left">We climbed this awesome mountain - the highest in NZ outside the Southern Alps - The whole trip took two and a half days - in perfect conditions - baking hot in the down in the river, below zero up in the snow. Now we feel revitalised!!!</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33138786-116114324437242002?l=i-will-question-everything.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Liam Shcmiamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12845304687837562764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33138786.post-1161142039661745482006-10-18T16:11:00.000+13:002006-10-18T16:52:19.580+13:00<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2977/3634/1600/Pa090032.jpg"><img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2977/3634/320/Pa090032.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />It took 11 hours to the summit from the start of the Hodder River in the wild Aorere Valley.<br />The Hodder is mainly a canyon, then there's alot of scree, then ice.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33138786-116114203966174548?l=i-will-question-everything.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Liam Shcmiamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12845304687837562764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33138786.post-1156219549338805482006-08-22T16:02:00.000+12:002006-08-22T16:22:49.636+12:00Hello planet! - this is my first posting<br />- I promise (for what it's worth), that -when I get around to it - everything will be questioned and there may not be any satisfactory answers but we will all learn alot on the way.<br /><br />[Is it a planet?<br />How far does this blog go - this planet and beyond?<br />Who knows?<br />Who cares?<br />What's important?<br />Why do we place such importance on beliefs?]<br />cu<br />LO<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33138786-115621954933880548?l=i-will-question-everything.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Liam Shcmiamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12845304687837562764noreply@blogger.com0