I love creating personal stones for people. It is an opportunity for me to spend some time connecting with a stone and it’s story. This is a stone painted for Natacha who wanted to give something personal to a friend. She spoke briefly about her friend and then left the rest up to me! Sometimes […]
I decided that I would write the story for this rock with my three nieces. And these are the thoughts that came to mind from all of us. It has been a great day – all the family getting together for a yummy hangi! We haven’t seen each other for ages and all the mokos […]
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 […]
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 […]
I spoke to my Mum and Dad today. Mum in Rotorua and Dad in Te Puke. I’ve realised now that I am older, how important my mātua are to me. As a rangatahi, a young person, selfish and tied up in my own world, I took my parents for granted. Actually I took life for […]
There are a lot of videos on the internet showing the devastation of the disaster in Japan, footage that you would not see on mainstream television. I can’t bring myself to watch it right now. The comments are painting a picture for me and it scares me to even take a look! A lot of […]