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Haami Moeke Snr QSM was a respected Maori kaumatua (Elder). He passed away recently. He was both my friend and my carving mentor. To me, he was matua or simply Haami. The thing I loved most about him was
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Many years ago, my artist friend Whero Te Whata asked me, “how do you see the sun through a rock?” I was young and I had no idea! He didn’t answer me immediately but
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I was visiting with my friend Rob on Friday. He’s the father of my old school friend Sal and her brothers Michael and Davy. You might think it strange my talking about my school friend’s Dad as if he was
Have you ever thrown your life overboard like a message in a bottle and watched it float off into the wild blue yonder, hoping with all hope that one day it’ll wash up on some far away beach? From time to time I think about that, yet the realities of the thought and it actually […]
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“The Knave of Hearts is a character from the book ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’ by Lewis Carroll. He’s first mentioned at his trial for a tart robbery over which the King of Hearts
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