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The first footprint

  photo credits : Goldie Akapita It’s snowing at home.   Facebook is flooded with stunning landscapes – the marae at Tirorangi standing embedded in a blanket of white mink; the mokopuna running outside in gumboots and pyjamas, to build…

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Waiting to get our wings

  ‘A season of loneliness and isolation is when the caterpillar gets its wings.   Remember that next time you feel alone’ (Mandy Hale). One of our team said something the other day that got me thinking – it was…

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Cold Porridge 

  Passing through the Southern wonder of Gore, I was struck by the monument to my childhood; the original Flemings Mill in which New Zealand iconistic kai, Creamoata, was produced.   Creamoata, a brand of finely ground oats, was our staple…

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One sweet day for healing

  And I know you’re shining down on me from heavenLike so many friends we’ve lost along the wayAnd I know eventually we’ll be together TogetherOne sweet day… All of us have a healing song.   A song we go…

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You are your tupuna’s wildest dreams

  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…

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A fresh sunrise

  “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…

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Pick up a tea-towel

  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…

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Let’s stay home

  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…

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Let it go

  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…

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The magic of the mirumiru

  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…

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