What difference does my little bit make?
A farewell to a community elder. A ballot dropped in a box. A cricket series won from a game down. A kaumatua’s quiet “well done”.
On the surface, they have nothing to do with each other. And yet...
On the little bit we each offer, and why we rarely see its weight until much later.
You can't run their race
My daughter graduated this week. Qualified nurse. Cap, gown, the whole shebang.
And sitting there watching her cross that stage, I was hit by something I didn't expect.
On cultivation, submission and the hardest discipline of all — learning to run your own race.
While one room was building, another was burning
The past few days handed me the same lesson twice. In two very different settings. With two very different groups of people.
A conference on equity for Muslim communities. A workshop with an organisation fighting cancer. And somewhere in the background - a voice calling for the removal of the very communities that were busy building.