Posts tagged Ingrid Coles
In the green valley
In the green valley

When I was about six years old, I heard this Dutch hymn sung at a new primary school. I was still very broken by the many things that had happened to me in the past and felt like one of those little flowers in that valley. I felt crushed, overawed and hopelessly tiny, but I didn’t know what to do about it all. There were a lot of nasty people in the world and even some of the children at school were unkind. 

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Standing on my own two feet
Standing on my own two feet

I had toyed with the idea of standing on my own feet for years and do what I’d always wished to: Nursing! However, there was more to it when the time came, and this soon sank in. At 16, going on 17, I thought the world was my oyster, that I was invincible, even though I’d only been in New Zealand a couple of months and my English still needed attention.

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