Hi Folks! Sue and Ted are at our kaainga here in Waikanae!!! Now we have seven people living in our house. No wonder there are fireworks going off in the heavens - literally actually, since its the old-fashioned Guy Fawkes celebration here. I'm nourished. I like how Sue says 'see those hedges' and I go 'oh yeah, those are hedges that I've been walking past all year but haven't seen'. Fresh eyes to see. Mirrors to us our beautiful home of mountains and sea and peace and hedges. Fresh breath, fresh heart, news from home, time to rest together, to play, to korero and share breath. I like how Ted just comes out with the description of the old turkey that I've looked at oddly all year; "he looks like a scrotum"!!!! (He does too!!!)
Here's a waiata (song)
Whakataka te hau ki te uru
Whakataka te hau ki te tonga
Kiamakinakina te uta
Kiamataratara te tai
E hi ake ana te atakura
he tio, he huka, he hauhunga.
Tihei Mauriora!
Cease the winds from the west
Cease the winds from the south
Let the breezes blow over the land
Let the red-tipped dawn come with a sharpened air,
A touch of frost, a promise of a glorious day.
Kia ora tatou e whanau! Neat to feel you all with the presence of the birds who've flown in from Melbourne, warm greetings and love, from Lethe
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