I have a mind map on the wall with a BIG “Mahi To DO” in the middle and a whole lot of things around the outside to complete before I leave. Well not all before I leave but most before I leave. But I’m looking at it and thinking, that’s a lot of things around […]
Month: August 2011
To Be a Child Again
To be in awe like a child, satisfied with the simplest of things… Oh to be a child again, to remember freedom with no boundaries or limitations. To understand life in all it’s beauty and wonder… Excited in the present, no knowledge of past or future, just present… How to return to that place of […]
Ahi Kaa
Ahi Kaa – the hot embers glowing remind me of my ancestors crouched around a fire watching… sharing a story or two… Ahi Kaa – keeping the fires burning at home. Keeping the fire alive for whānau to come home to. Maintaining your intrinsic connection to the land and the environment and remembering that this […]
Tui Tui Tuia
Tuia i runga Tuia i raro Tuia i roto Tuia i waho Tui tui tuia I remember this waiata from ages ago at school! And like most Māori waiata we learnt in mainstream school (which was very few), I really didn’t know what any of them meant. So now when I recite these words, they […]
Day 239 – Fear Revisited
I cast my mind back to Jan 1st 2011. FEAR. Fear was fully there and I remember sitting at my computer thinking, shall I push the button or shouldn’t I? I sat there for at least two hours. I remember it was late. All sorts of things going through my mind – people are not […]
Out the Other Side
I love this rock but I didn’t really enjoy painting it to begin with because I was quite agitated. It’s another revived rock that I found in the garden, a rock I had started months, maybe years ago but never finished. So another green spiral underneath, another rock to be healed from another time and […]