THE DASH

by Linda Ellis

I read of a man who stood to speak at the funeral of a friend. He referred to the dates on the tombstone from the beginning… to the end.

He noted that first came the date of birth and spoke of the following date with tears, but he said what mattered most of all was the dash between those years.

For that dash represents all the time they spent alive on earth and now only those who loved them know what that little line is worth.

For it matters not, how much we own, the cars… the house… the cash. What matters is how we live and love and how we spend our dash.

So think about this long and hard; are there things you’d like to change? For you never know how much time is left that still can be rearranged.

To be less quick to anger and show appreciation more and love the people in our lives like we’ve never loved before.

If we treat each other with respect and more often wear a smile… remembering that this special dash might only last a little while.

So when your eulogy is being read, with your life’s actions to rehash, would you be proud of the things they say about how you lived your dash?

Oct 12

Oct 12 Bongo

Dash Ocean Racing

The rental car situation was getting to hard to manage and my use of families garages around Auckland had to end. DASH OCEAN RACING needed a VAN.

On advice I searched for a few days looking for a Mazda Bong the cheap backpacker slash tradie van. The High-top version was needed so my head would not be hitting the roof but kept they were hard to find in petrol. I had seen a few Bongo Brawny versions on yards but they did not have the high-top roof line so I had not sat in one. Finally when I had nearly given up my search I jumped into a Brawny to find that it did have headroom, not to mention much bigger load carrying area. I found our Brawny at The Car Warehouse added tints and drove away.

Mazda Quick fact “This line was named after the African Bongo, a variation of the antelope “

THE DASH

Oct 12 Bongo

Oct 13 Repair, Replace, Upgrade

Oct 5 Logistics