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The young curled shoots of rarauhe emerging from the ground are sometimes generically referred to as ‘pikopiko’; a term commonly used as a metaphor for the younger or next generation of people. I started the week off in incredible…
After the earthquakes Dad shifted out from Shirley and the land of the Red Zone to Kaiapoi. In many senses it was a coming home – home to where we’d had our childhood; days spent roaming down Raven Street and…
I loved a conversation I watched on social media this week responding to the question ‘what do we do with a broken pounamu’?. Ngāi Tahu wise woman (and Chief Values Officer for Ngāi Tahu Holdings) Charisma Rangipunga responded…
E kore rātou e koroheketia, penei i a tātou kua mahue nei E kore hoki rātou e ngoikore, Ahakoa pēhea i ngā āhuatanga o te wā I te hekenga atu o te rā, tae noa ki te aranga mai…
As our international speaker, Jo Ann Kaufmann boarded the plane back to the Nez Perce Reservation, (Kamiah, Idaho) she posted a message to us all: “Congratulations on the wonderful and groundbreaking work you all do at Te Putahitanga. I…
Today New Zealanders donned gumboots of all descriptions – thigh-high freezing worker boots; flamingo pink designer boots, red band classics, Mum’s ankle high gardening boots and my own fairly unoriginal shiny black boots. All we needed was our kamuputu…
Ko Tātou, Tātou. We are one. One in our universal grief; one in the lament that flows from tears of sorrow at the loss of fifty loved ones – family members, workers, citizens, Muslim. One in our new knowledge…
There was one word that the Imam repeated at the end of the call for prayer than rung through New Zealand on Friday at 1.32pm. Aroha. Aroha. Aroha. Kaiwhakakotahitanga tātou. The love that was demonstrated by people opening…
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