there are quite a few places now where we can't see anywhere else except here

as if our perimeter is secure 

on a slow wandering sunday i discovering a spot
tucked in behind one of our first plantings
where, if i sit right down & look up
I can see Taranaki in the distance
with only our native trees in the foreground

​as if the whenua is cloaked

looping, knotless netting, knotted netting, coiling, twining 

ancestral memory 
brain slows to idle
fibres relax with finger's caress

familiar
process
timeless
rhythm 

fingers

sensing
unity
connection
space 

​spirals

slow
languid 
graceful
dance

Today, 13th September 2022, Aotearoa/New Zealand's mask mandate has been lifted.

I made my first mask on 13th August 2020.
It became my favourite & when we arrived home from our holiday, September 2nd 2022, I was really saddened to discover I had lost it.
Officially i no longer need it. 
Can't help thinking of the various 'comfies' we carry throughout our lives. 
The sense of safety & calm they bring us doesn't need to be explained, especially if they do no harm to others.