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I made some cordage from my corn husks. Like with the first go at anything, it’s a lil clumsy and irregular in size alo...
05/05/2026

I made some cordage from my corn husks.

Like with the first go at anything, it’s a lil clumsy and irregular in size along its length, but I’m super chuffed with it. Gotta start to get better at anything.

It’s quite a simple process, just one of those lovely little mindful activities to be doing while in conversation or watching some telly or just working away. Doing the crafting.

This length was just from one corn cob 🥰

Imagine how much I could make from the whole seasons harvest.

Feels like a wonderful way to honour the whole of the plant. Of course, we could use the husks as carbon layers for the garden beds, but I feel like make cordage from it is a wonderful use for adding to my creative projects.

Have you made cordage from anything you’ve harvested or grown?

04/05/2026

Oh my gosh check out my Corn babies 🥰

From seed sown in January, to planted out, tended and neglected, critters eating a lot of cobs before they were ripe, to these 🤗

Beautiful diversity of colour and joyful ness.

They look like they’re loaded with nutrition, and the Creative in me is smitten with their colours. I’m also having fun making cordage from the husks and leaves. And the stalks we’ll use as supports for climbing plants in Spring. Making use of all of the plant feels wonderful to me. Honouring all its parts.

The little cobs are a mini black popping corn.

They all have whakapapa back to Incan, Peruvian or Navajo peoples.

Am excited to eat these, and to see how much more of a yield we can get next year 🥰

04/05/2026

Oh my gosh I’m still fizzing from the Hua Parakore Soil Health Wānanga that I was honoured to attend over the weekend.

To join a room full of kaupapa led humans, all on the same waka, Āue!

And to be guided by the amazing whanau, ka mau te wehi 🫶🏽

My heart is full of song, my soul is uplifted and supported, and my mauri is steady. This little Kūaka has returned home to our whenua with all of the korero to share with the whanau.

To be gifted a framework that aligns so well with our whenua, to honour the Whakapapa we have here, feels so empowering.

8 generations on this whenua, we can lean into listening to the Māramatanga inherent in this.

We get to carry that on with the support of te ao tūroa, the wider community of this community.

And to be able to sing this song easily from my heart as I walked in our local ngahere today.

Jessica and Jo, so many thank you’s. To you and your whanau for holding this space for us. For sharing the Mana and the Wairua of this matauranga with such powerful grace.

And so we get to continue to be Kaitiaki.

Empowering people by connecting them to the Natural World.

By healing and advocating for Hineahuone and all of her Mokopuna

💚💚💚

PS - the power of a Pao to have called me forward to sing in a public way 🫶🏽

03/05/2026

Marama put on an absolutely stunning display in Pōneke over the last few days.

Moonrising into the Sunset.

Moonset into the Sunrise.

Moonbeams on the Ocean

Sitting under this delicious display soaking it all in.

All that extra mauri added to a super full weekend of kaupapa.

What an absolute delight!!

Feeling very called into action to bring some dreams to life and to keep sharing the Stories of it all.

Mauri ora e te whanau

01/05/2026

Full weekend of amazing things in Wellington

Learning, Sharing, Concluding,

Land based and sustainable knowledge sets.

Truthfully.

Beyond grateful to walk in these places

27/04/2026

Nikau Groves are some of my fave spots in the forest. There’s always something ancient feeling about them.

Perhaps it’s because it can take them up to 50 years to form a trunk that starts to rise from ground level.

Imagine spending half a century creating a foundation to lift into the world from. And then living for hundreds of years more.

Gosh.

There’s def a lesson in there about taking the time to establish a base line. Surrounded by your peers, Elders and upcoming generations

Go well today e te whanau

23/04/2026

Holding a Joyful Reverence of all the Mini Moments makes life sparkle.

There’s so much Magic in the Mundane when it’s done with intention.

And is that perhaps not all that this Life is.

A mosaic of otherwise mundane moments treated with joyful reverence.

I’ve discovered that the depth of connection comes from learning to notice the small moments that get otherwise missed. In the rush toward the more.

But the Much, is in the right Now.

The ice on the fence post from a cold night. That’s gone with the sun.

The stars of Tu and Rongo aligned in the sky over the predawn Maunga. Shifted in a few moments.

The blanket of stillness created in a forest by the Oro of sound. To be joined by a Riro riro (Grey Warbler) at the most pivotal moment.

The coast line of Rainbows all the way from Taitoko to Paraparaumu. Telling of snow clouds meeting the sunshine.

The joy in the keeping of a promise to myself made aloud. The stitching of Symbols into a fave jacket with the most Devine Muka I have ever harvested. From Land well Loved.

The gathering around some new favourite rakau to hug them after a group Breath session. Realising that we now ‘see’ them in our daily travels. The cheeky boys, loving a hug, and not wanting us to go now that we’d noticed them finally.

The noticing that the Moon is below the horizon for most of the dark hours at the moment. She’s been spending her days with us in this Tamatea phase. Not the nights. Curious I find this. Thinking as I used to that the Moon was in the night sky.

Realising that a mug is actually a vessel that holds the efforts of the person who harvested the tea, the land it came from, the rain it grew with, and the journey it took to be then steeped in water and savoured with morning story. Let alone a handcrafted mug. Bearing the memory and energy of its Crafter.

Take a breath in. And out. Still yourself.

Let me know of some moments you’ve had this week that when you reflect on them, they hold a depth of Story that create the beautiful mosaic of our life and ensure they’re carefully crafted with intention and not just caught in the headlong rush toward being somewhere else.

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