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I listened to a fabulous korero tonight with everyone’s favourite Taua, Dame Aroha Hohipera Reriti-Crofts and Takutā Ferris. Takutā shared an inspirational comment – “you are our tupuna’s wildest dreams’, to which Taua Aroha responded that her greatest…
They say that you cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if you have not dined well. There is a whakatauki that says, ‘I orea te tuatara ka patu ki waho’ which encourages us to apply creative thinking, adaptability…
“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope”. Maya Angelou The sunrise this morning was blazing in its beauty. Astounding, awe-inspiring, bedazzling. It reminded me that sometimes the simplicity…
One of the most useful pieces of advice my mother gave me was ‘pick up a tea-towel’. She’d say, “don’t wait to be asked, just make yourself useful”. Her view was that it was better to be…
Home is a place you grow up wanting to leave, and grow old wanting to get back to.” When you have a solid sense of place, an innate and intimate connection to your tribal landscape it can be defining…
In 2004, Koukourarata legend, Dr Irihapeti Ramsden challenged the obsession with depicting Māori as ‘warriors’ or ‘toa’ by her now oft-quoted vision “Once were gardeners, once were astronomers, once were philosophers, once were lovers”. Many read her words as…
The world is a bubble Our baby loves bubbles. Bubbles in the bath; bubbles in the sink while you’re washing the dishes; bubbles in the air that float to heaven, carrying her dreams within them. She loves…
E iti noa ana nā te aroha A small thing given with love. If ever we have seen love nurtured, love flourishing, it is through the context of the coronavirus virus in our lives. All over the nation we…
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