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The road to Kaikoura is always an exercise in excitement. You can be driving along, oblivious to the landscape, until suddenly, Tangaroa presents himself – the wide expanse of the seashore horizon encouraging us to lift our thoughts…
Wānanga – Learning, Connectivity and participation Wānanga @ Rapaki 2020 Once upon a century ago when I was sweet sixteen, I had a beautiful romance with a surfer. At that time of my life, all the issues of the…
“I am a hat. I am worn out here and there. I have a fewm holes, and even a few weeds sticking out. But I am still very much a hat. A very happy hat” A Happy Hat (Cecil…
On Monday, under the blazing heat of a Wairau sun the people gathered to celebrate the unique crystallisation of solutions emerging out of Tū Pono: Te Mana Kaha o te Whānau. Tū Pono began from the inspiration and instigation…
PANIA OF THE REEF Many people have heard of the story of Pania of the Reef – a beautiful sea maiden who would swim towards the shore at the setting of the sun, hiding herself in the clump of…
When my Dad speaks of Nelson, there is always a wistful lilt to his voice – as he reflects on “the greatest school in New Zealand” (Nelson College); the world-leading Nelsonian who split the atom (Ernest Rutherford) and the…
Ngā mihi o te raumati! One of my favourite holiday shots was my mokopuna and son, climbing the stairs at the Picton War Memorial that overlooks Tōtaranui. The stark white façade of the war memorial set against the…
The shimmering waters of Te Waipounamu are the perfect metaphor for Whānau Ora in the south. Some of the lakes that glisten and shine the most are often hidden out of full public view. But just because they…
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