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semi geodesic tent Orson Alpha 2 | 4 Season Semi Geodesic Alpine TentDesigned for NZs toughest conditions, the Orson Alpha 2 Tent is built to best handle some of NZ's worst weather. Part of Orson's Adventure Series, the Alpha 2 is made for year round use with superior materials and componentry. The design provides room for two adventurers, it's quick and easy to pitch in bad weather, and features an external reinforced three pole structure and multiple ventilation options. Feedback and research revealed that many
Designed for NZ’s toughest conditions, the Orson Alpha 2 Tent is built to best handle some of NZ's worst weather. Part of Orson's Adventure Series, the Alpha 2 is made for year-round use with superior materials and componentry. The design provides room for two adventurers, it's quick and easy to pitch in bad weather, and features an external reinforced three pole structure and multiple ventilation options.
Feedback and research revealed that many ultralight tent imports focus on ultralight weight, which means they are using ultralight materials, specifications and designs that are often less durable and aren't suitable for our environment. Our intention with the Alpha 2 was to make a true 4 season tent with a priority on performance and durability, specifically designed to perform in New Zealand's often unforgiving conditions.
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- Weatherproof Design: Aerodynamic, free-standing semi-geodesic structure handles winds and can be pegged out with maximum 18 pegs if needed.
- Quick Setup: External pole system with reinforced clips for fast pitching —no sleeves, no hassles. A quick pitch fly with inner attached to keeps things dry in rain. Can be pitched fly only
- Durable Waterproof Materials: Waterproof 40D Ripstop Silnylon PU4000mm fly and PU6000mm floor with reinforced seams and pole clips for added stability.
- Sturdy Pole Structure: Three external 9.5mm aluminium poles held in place using reinforced seams and clip supports to evenly distribute and absorb tension across the tent fly
- Well Ventilated: Two end vents, two roof vents accessible from inside, plus door venting options with struts for additional airflow if needed.
- Spacious: full sized two-person design with double doors, dual vestibules, good headroom and even width measuring 215cm long x 130cm wide x 100cm max height
- Storage Solutions: Two vestibules, four internal pockets, a roof clothesline – plenty of storage options and gear organization.
Specifications
- Packed Weight: 3.25kg
- Packed Size: 54cm x 16cm (approx)
- Interior Dimensions: 215cm long x 130cm wide with max height of 100cm
- Pitched Footprint: Approx 240cm long x 280cm wide
- Materials: 40D Ripstop Silnylon fly and floor, YKK zips, 9.5mm aluminium poles, and hi-viz reflective guy ropes
- Pegs: Includes 6 x 18cm and 12 x 15cm aluminium alloy tri-stakes
- Carry Bag: Oversized for easy packing
Optional Groundsheet (Sold Separately):
- Added Protection: Covers tent floor and vestibule area
- Durable Build: 75D polyester PU5000mm with linelocks and elastic corners
- Lightweight: Weighs 235g with a footprint approx 2.25m x 2.4m
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★★★★★ 5
Countee Cullen chapter
Format: Paperback
This book is a great read. I’m not even sure how to encapsulate my thoughts on it, but let me say the chapter, “Jesus,” on the poetry of Countee Cullen is brilliant and a masterclass on discipleship, suffering, identity, projecting onto Jesus. This one chapter could literally be a course in Christian discipleship handling multiple aspects of the life of faith. I feel like I’m not doing the chapter, the book, or Claude Atcho justice here, but I deeply recommend this book and urge readers to really sit with the Cullen chapter and all its implications. What a gift Claude Atcho has given us here!
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Reviewed in the United States on January 21, 2025
★★★★★ 5
An exceptional, stunningly beautiful, and greatly needed book
Format: Paperback
Have you ever finished a book so heavy with truth and beauty and goodness that you don’t know how to sum it up? That’s where I am upon completing Claude Atcho’s Reading Black Books: How African American Literature Can Make Our Faith More Whole and Just. I’m the sort who marks up books with notes, underlining, and asterisks. Pages with ideas I want to return to get a folded corner. For this book? More pages are folded than not and a flip through the book reveals copious amounts of fuchsia markings.
Full disclosure: Claude is a writer friend; we’ve chatted about faith, books, work, writing, and podcasting. I’ve been eagerly awaiting the release of his book, knowing it would be fantastic. You might think I was biased in that assumption, considering our previous connection, considering I received an ARC from Brazos Press.
What I found from the first pages was even more than expected: my friend as pastor, shepherd, prophet, counselor, guide. Claude features 10 key creative African American works to cast a vision for human flourishing rooted in the power and love of God found in Jesus Christ. Just listen to this moving excerpt: “Healing is found in the constant individual and communal turn toward the tender mercies of God, who calls us to a theological remembrance: to locate our history in his, to make sense of our memory in his memory, to process our wounds in his wounds” (126). This book is beautifully written, theologically robust, and desperately needed. I cannot recommend this book highly enough. It is stunning.
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Reviewed in the United States on May 17, 2022
★★★★★ 5
A rich and rewarding book
Format: Kindle
I highly recommend Claude Atcho's "Reading Black Books," Brazos Press. As noted in the description each chapter is devoted to an acclaimed work of African American literature. I intend to read some of these themselves followed by re-reading Mr. Atcho's corresponding chapter making notes and thinking more deeply about his analysis and discussion of principles of race, Christian theology, and ethics. However, it is not necessary to be familiar with the works cited or go that deep into them to appreciate "Black Books" conclusions. It is clearly written by a lover of literature who is well read, profound, eloquent, and an exceptional analyst. This is a great resource that goes well beyond the 10 works evaluated to give the reader references and footnotes of many other books begging for further study. As a white reader I found myself confronted several times with my own inherent bias. Growing in our understanding of others, ourselves, race, and the Kingdom of God is why we read a book like this. "Reading Black Books" delivers on all counts.
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Reviewed in the United States on June 21, 2022
★★★★★ 5
A Review from Unity Burbank Center of Spiritual Awareness in Burbank, CA:
Format: Hardcover
Anne Lamott is a unique-styled writer who focuses more on expression than precision and in doing so, you can feel her heart poured out on the page and still hear its pounding. In the reading, there is laughter both from joy and from her refreshing frankness and freshness, as well as beautiful recognition of life and ourselves in her experiences, insights and metaphors. Her writing expresses the passion and pain in life, with the ever-present belief in the great balm of Love and connection to the mysterious, loving creator in all of us. She weaves funny, blatant or pained speech (that you can feel are all truthful from her experience) with absolutely piercing-poetic writing, and the combination touches your heart and is a tonic for the soul.
She focuses and expands on three prayers we reach out to God with of Help, Thanks and Wow. The final chapter is on Amen. This book helped me see the importance of little prayers, big prayers, frustrated prayers, angry prayers, thankful prayers, awe-inspired heart-bursts, wordless prayers expressed in tears, wonderment in your gut from glories seen with your eyes or in your heart. All prayers. Prayers are the expression and connection to our Creator and each one is an action of faith that we are at least heard. Others carry an awareness that we see and are seen, know and are known, loved and loving, connected, in relationship with God. There is beauty and power in all of our prayers.
This book would be one to give or suggest to atheist or agnostic friends or to keep handy in times of crisis for ourselves because it’s entirely without the pretense of knowing all of the answers. It looks squarely at the mess and confusion of life and of ourselves, the unanswered why’s that will always be there, and instead of trying to explain away in any combination of pat answers that leave one in the end reaching but unsatisfied, she reminds that there is always, always still exquisite beauty, awe, revelations and regenerations in life, in Love. I’ve often thought that one of the problems with religion is actually the attempt to have all the answers, each and every one, which of course fails miserably and is full of contradictions, instead of being content in the Mystery. This book, her writing revels in the Mystery and in the Glory of Love. The prayers that we send to our Creator are a beautiful connection to Love, to Life-Source, to the One, where all answers reside. We have and receive answers and miracles that we need, being part and connected to the One, though the answers may often appear differently than we expect. And even in confusion and feeling like some answers are incomplete, in prayer there is connection to what is whole and complete—God, and a reminder that somehow, we and life are whole and complete too. In the sometimes heartbreaking tragedies and complexity of life and relationships, in the violence and pain in the world, in our own stumbles and foibles, in the often repeated mistakes and awkwardness, there is grace, growth, magnificence-there is God-for us, in us. And the Love-connection in prayer is always there. Amen.
Sometimes after I read a book and there’s been a little more time to digest, the lessons I need come right to the surface and make themselves clear and known. So, I’d like to share and expand a bit more on the review. Anne Lamott says in the book, “God can handle honesty.” I’d add God can not only handle honesty, but absolutely loves it! In honesty, we are connected to Love and in Love, we can receive truth. Because sometimes what we think or feel isn’t the truth at all, but the truth is that we are thinking or feeling that thought or emotion. Share it with Love and Love will show us the way, love us in the sharing, wherever we’re at. Prayer with God is a place where we have the privilege of “getting real-really real”.
After reading this book, I noticed that sometimes I was preparing to pray or delaying connection with Love because I felt unworthy in my energy…As if God was a friend I wanted to call, but because of a funky mood or too heavy of stuff going on, I delayed the call, not wanting to bring them down. Now I see that God is the open line in our lives, back and forth communication, for every circumstance, every mood. We can’t be too mad, too distracted, discouraged, frustrated, disbelieving, too out of touch to pray. God wants to hear from us especially then! This is the time to jump back into Love, back into dialogue, back into the Loving energy and then stay swimming in its precious freedom and connection.
Love is the only place that there is true freedom–all of the Love is in Love, in us, in the whole. And all truth and answers and goodness and infinite combinations of Love reside within Love, so there’s no place to prepare for Love. Love is where it’s all at. Just dive right back in. If you’ve been out of the loving energy for two days, you don’t need two days to get back in! Slipping out of Love and all the positivity and truths and beautiful things within it can be a slow unconscious process. But–the holy instant there’s a recognition that you are out of it-jump right back in! Don’t let the negative, untrue energy you are mixed up in tell you there’s anything from preventing you from returning wholly, fully and instantly back into your true self and connection to God in Love. The ego can try to make us feel guilty for being out of Love and use it to say, “Well, you’ve been bad, you can’t jump into Love just now. You did it again, so Love won’t take you back so fast and besides you don’t deserve it because you failed the spirituality test again. You don’t love God enough. You’re not good. God is pissed at you–you don’t deserve all the joy in Love because you didn’t value it or you would’ve stayed in it.” Or the ego might even say, “You need to stay in this energy a bit more in order to do what you need to do.” All these lies just prevent people from jumping back in right away to the Love that refreshes and loves us and always lends a hand. We don’t need to do anything but start talking to Love! We don’t need to patch up our energy before praying because the only healing, lifting and transforming energy is within the whole of Love! We don’t have to be perfect or believe perfectly or try to know all the answers before connecting because Love is where all the Love and the answers we need reside! Love is everything. We won’t know all the answers in this lifetime to all the questions, but we can know what we need to know, we can experience the whole that we are a part of and one with and thus experience and know ourselves to be whole and loved and free. Love is where all of the healing and remedies are for each of us. It’s our freedom.
Prayer is a constant dialogue as we swim within Love. We don’t even need to use the word prayer as the word itself represents connection, and within that connection, so many unnameable and beautiful things. God can handle and wants our true expressions, and in Love, we find truth. We are whole, we are ourselves, we are free.
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Reviewed in the United States on March 9, 2014
★★★★★ 5
Anne Helped, I'm Thankful, and She'll Wow You Too!
Format: Hardcover
A small book with a big heart. Lamott writes with honesty, humor, and grace about prayer in a way that is accessible to believers, doubters, and everyone in between. “Help, Thanks, Wow” is simple without being shallow and deeply moving without being heavy. I return to it often.
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Reviewed in the United States on February 11, 2026