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The landscape looking out from Ōnuku has always been exquisitely beautiful. Ōnuku connects ancestrally to the waka Takitimu, the moana Akaroa and the maunga Ōteauheke. As you look out at that expansive vista the world seems complete. A quick pivot around…
Te Poho-o-Tamatea Pōkai Whenua te maunga.Ko Whakaraupō te moana.Ko Te Raki Whakaputa te tangata. Maunga ki te mauna is a kaupapa driven and born out of love for our whenua – our maunga, our awa, our wai and the…
Muhammed Ali once said “It isn’t the mountains ahead that wear you down, it’s the pebble in your shoe”. It reminds me of the oft-quoted whakataukī from Dr Rangitakuku Metekingi of Whanganui, “Ko te pae tawhiti whaia kia tata, ko…
Outside HCC premises, I was taken bey the revolutionary sight of a broken barbed wire fence. To be more specific, my eyes were drawn to the dawn breaking through; refusing to be reined in by angry barbs or corrugated iron. …
“Matariki, huarahi ki te oranga tangata.”Matariki, pathway to the well-being of people. I remember as a child being transfixed by the wonder of the wishing star that featured in Disneyland television credits, ‘when you wish upon a star, makes no…
Kānapanapa mai ana a MatarikiMatariki shines on the New Year I love the magic of Matariki. There is nothing that represents our evolving nationhood more than the celebration of Matariki resplendent in the dawn sky. From 25 to 28…
Just outside of Ohakune, there is a wāhi tapu, a sacred lake called Rotokura. Within that lake resides the answers for all our children and mokopuna who whakapapa to this special place. Literally. Puna – the glimmering, pristine birth-waters;…
Kia ao ake te rā, he tio, he keo, he hauhunga Let the day dawn with freezing cold, ice and frost This week the sharp bite of frost has greeted us throughout Te Waipounamu. Window-screen iced over, the crisp…
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