Whatu, dream time in waima - good to be back.

Māori methodologies aren't separate from everyday lives of relationality. It's not an extractive, step by step process; it's a return to Tāne, to push up against the sky and the earth to honour in the between. We arrive in service. To learn from communities. They are expert.

Tangata whenua spend time/labour/attention doing partnership work, decol every hui/sentence/research activity, give, highlight, protesting, challenging, being challenged, being the lone voice & explaining the ordinary. Try to rest, sneak a daydream, but we are exhausted. What would it mean to be?

Hope 2 heal bound in aspirations that never arrive & in the trying we feel. Feeling is a right that’s not always welcome. In realms devoid of feeling we are envied. With healing possibilities, taking dedication to metabolize pain, first fire, expanding burns, then a throb from a punch.

I’m proud of this mahi, it took a while but it’s finally ready to share.