Kāti rā, ā te tākiritanga mai o te ata, ā te huanga ake o te awatea, kia tau he māramatanga, kia ū ko te pai, kia mau ko te tika. Koinei ko te tangi a te ngākau e Rongo, tūturu ōwhiti whakamaua kia tina, tina! Hui e, tāiki e! (And so, as dawn rises, and […]
Tag: travel
Hikoi and Hui
It’s been a challenging year with many of the things I hold dear under serious threat from the current government, and internationally. Not least among these is the status of Te Tiriti o Waitangi. A couple of years ago, Cushla and Finn began to explore their whakapapa – Ngāpuhi nui tonu – leaving me as […]
Edinburgh comes home
I’ve been to Edinburgh, but I don’t remember that much about it. I stayed in quite a nice hotel, small, and a bit classy. I had a nice first floor room that overlooked a rather elegant street. None of this was planned. The hotel just happened to be close to where my bus from York […]
Lexie ‘Online’
It has to be said that I love the Internet. I have no idea how we functioned without it because it’s like GPS. With my diabolical sense of direction I have no idea how I got anywhere before GPS but it seems I did because the facts speak for themselves and its all in the […]
‘Tidying the House’~ when silence becomes a betrayal of principle
I was elected to my first governance role when I was eighteen. It was as a member of the board of a teacher union, a branch of the NZEI. I was elected to my most recent governance role – Deputy Chair of the Gender Equity and Inclusion Committee of the World Archery Federation – when […]
‘Good times and bum times I’ve seen ’em all and, my dear, I’m still here’
Day 49 (51): a pretty shitty day today. Sick of some of our ludicrously purple media. Their bias and turgid bloody-mindedness is really distressing. It’s been like this for a long time but right now the negativity is at an almost all time high. This first slapped me in the face in 2015 when we […]
Te Pâti Māori
I voted for Te Pâti Māori when they first entered the Whare Pāremata and they were fresh. To add joy to my vote, I cast it at the New Zealand Embassy in Tokyo. I’ve always wanted them to do well but I lost faith in them when they opted to join John Key’s ratbag lot. […]
Lexie ‘Online’
It has to be said that I love the Internet. I have no idea how we functioned without it because it’s like GPS. With my diabolical sense of direction, I have no idea how I got anywhere before GPS but it seems I did because the facts speak for themselves, and it’s all there in […]
Waitangi Day 2024
We always commemorate actual Waitangi Day in special ways because, in Aotearoa, and in our world, every day is Waitangi Day. This year (2024) we again celebrated Waitangi Day ‘out west’ at Parr’s Park at Waitangi@Waititi, a fantastic event organised by Te Whānau o Waipareira Trust and with a cast of thousands. We took 35,000+ […]
Moe Miti ~ a theatre review
I will taste the bitter separation and oil my skin with it. I will listen for all that is old and with my ear pressed to the dirt, hear those who sing my name on the wind. In September 1966, Paul Simon released the iconic album ‘Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme’ and buried in the […]
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