We went to Pecha Kucha tonight and I left there feeling so full and inspired! There were so many different stories – funny, sad, informative, inspiring kōrero and I just couldn’t help but think, how wonderful it is that we can share our stories in an open environment where there is no expectation about what […]

Be kind, because you never know what a person has experienced in their lives or what they are experiencing now. Everyone wants to be loved and accepted. Be kind to one another because you never know, what you say to another may be your last words to them, and if they were your last words, […]

Ko te pū te more te weu te aka te rea te waonui te kune te whe te kore te pō ki ngā tāngata Māori nā Rangi rāua ki Pāpa ko tēnei te timatatanga o te ao, ko tēnei te timatanga o te ao… I was in the shower today and just started singing this […]

Winter is well and truly here! Right now, I’m picturing my maunga back home in Taranaki with a beautiful korowai mā, not really wishing I was there right NOW though, its blinken cold enough here in Tūranga! Hōngongoi is our Māori word for July but like all words in our Māori language, each word tells […]

I have memories of going into the bush to play alone as a child. I would build my home there and felt quite at home… I loved being alone. As a teenager, I never liked being alone and I always felt the need to be with others. Later on, I relearned the joy and importance […]

I never know what is going to come out on the rock until after I’ve painted it. And today’s rock is a different one – not my “usual” spiral painting, although the spiral is still there. But that is the joy of creating something in the moment, painting intuitively and just allowing the brush to […]