a year of karanga wānanga at Kurawaka Retreat Centre in Pōrangahau 
tuhi-a-wairua - 3 mins writing
a technique very familiar to me having spent several years doing 15 min 'wild writing' exercises 
this my final piece 
written at the Karanga symposium in Hastings 
​29 Jan 2025
my sister & my niece by my side
our jump off line : to deepen my connection to karanga

I've received what i assume to be a spam/scam email insisting i follow a link to some place or other 
I'm writing this post today because it told me I would lose access to all my Weebly data if i didn't follow their link
​the email said 'you haven't used your Weebly account in 'quite a while'
hell i know I've been slack about writing but it hasn't been that long 

these things occurred to me

1. i have no data that i give a damn about losing 
2. this morning it's as cold as winter with squalls of evil, cold, needle sharp rain  
3. i have to leave home 
4. i am very grumpy 

so off you go ridiculous email 
​go live in the junk folder til i remember to clean you out
& if I'm wrong 
in 5 days this account will no longer exist
i'll have one less thing in my life that i attend to regularly
& i can start again if i wish . . . . or not

​maybe i'll see you again xx

it's almost 9pm on NYE

​scallops are draining on the bench
i am drained

so much for the energy of the full moon
& the excitement of the new year

i have no platitudes
just a sigh of relief

we made it