Mahi To Do

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]