Tautoko.

Sometimes I finish as early as 17 or 18 Dec but most years it's 23 Dec, back on 5 or 7 Jan, occasionally as late as 9 Jan - so tired of their rhetoric.

This is the part that worries me.

With you on the humidity!

Love that 💗 quality time with doggo is a win

It extends to religion here in Aotearoa & Te Waipounamu 😉

However, one of our key cultural values (my current working understanding of) is that what's tika or correct for one may not be for another - so there is a broad spectrum of attitudes towards decolonisation plus faith.

Each to their own. ❣️

In the current actively hostile environment, celebrating the small wins is an effective way to build and rebuild our resilience 💗

Koia kai a koe ❣️

Nau mai, welcome 💗

That would be a nope.

I would absolutely read this series, librarian-turned-vigilante, elegant aesthetic by day, crime queen by night

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There are so many points of familiarity here for the experiences of Māori in my world, of the survivors of abuse in care, of so many others.

Ka aroha hoki

Shared with aroha for all those scarred by wars they / we did not choose nor profit from.

Also shared with hope.

The voices of the next generation, unafraid to call out the gaps between what is said and what is done, what has and is happening, will always seed hope for me.

💗

We’re not opposed to TECHNOLOGY, we’re opposed to management using technology to exploit labour without any regard for the physical or emotional wellbeing of workers.

Goodness... Having bused with multiple small children to get them to kōhaka reo and to kura, that seems like an oversight.

Or a window into the thinking patterns of the planners.

I am so sorry to hear this.