I was putting healing cream on my niece’s excema this morning and she just sat there, fluttered her butterfly eyelashes and was enjoying the touch and attention to her skin. Today I picked up my Mum from the resthome and she loved to have kisses on her face, me touching her soft skin with my […]
Out of space into the daylight a brand new day, fresh, alive… brightness… I come alive again… Yay! So I’m here with whānau and looking forward to the next few days ahead. It was so lovely to come to Rotorua and to the sun! I love the rain and the coolness but my body was […]
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 […]
Painting this rock was the first thing I did today. I had a million and one other things to do, packing, packing and more packing oh and of course I had to go and see Ron and see what fantabulous kākahu he had magic-ed up for me! And lunch with Todd before heading off into […]
I’ve always been of the mind that we shouldn’t shape artists, but rather, give them the tools to explore and find the artist within themselves. Miss 6 year old Teia, she draws these amazing pictures of people that have limbs that stretch all the way across the page or curl around to reach up to […]
I was having a conversation with a friend via email and she asked me about science in relation to the observational learnings of my ancestors and how I might see modern science and the ‘science’ of my ancestors working together. I was always a curious child who questioned everything, and according to my sister, very […]