We are the only species on this earth that pays for the essentials to life. That’s food, shelter and water, yet we claim to be the intelligent ones. Not only do we pay for the right to exist on this earth but we never have enough. We want more and bigger. Even our children’s outdoor playgrounds are devoid of life with artificial play equipment that mimics the natural world. Only a few brave kaitiaki of the whenua are brave enough to set up home in this environment such as the odd spider.
If someone special to you gives you a gift then wouldn’t you cherish it and look after it and have it in pride of place. Most people come from the understanding that their God or Gods created earth and everything you see including us. Why then, are we destroying ourselves and our whare/house. We extract taonga/treasures from Papatῡᾱnuku’s belly, turn them into toxic products and pour them back into her belly which is akin to the food we now eat. What we do to her we do to us. Covid lockdowns re-awakened the pace and connection with earth energy. Nature responded by visiting us in our spaces. We were finally living at nature’s (s)pace. Our essential workers were valued above all else. We realized that at some point we would all require an essential worker at least once in our lifetime. We couldn’t live without them just as we can’t live without the essentials to life. How quickly we forgot as we resumed our consumer paced life. It’s almost like we all got a glimpse into our indigenous souls, especially for those who had forgotten. We are all indigenous to somewhere and we all lived in relationship with the earth and not separate from her at some time in our ancestral line. If, like me, you descend from several indigenous peoples. How I honour my own indigenous people is by honouring the indigenous people of the land that I walk on. My patai/question? Who is looking after the carers? Including the greatest of them all. Our patient, giving, wise and forgiving mother Papatῡᾱnuku! How often are you visiting nature’s (s)pace?
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