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Like lightening in a bottle,the prophet speaks against all odds.A force of nature striking the gods of Babylon into a thousand splinters.Undefinable by the org chart,untamable by the bureaucracy,wild at heart,tender of hand,the prophet speaks ofinjustice and hope.The prophet sees with eyes on fire a land of promise and plentyyet is fierce in conversation about […]
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Home is the mountain you look to when you’re lost in the city, of agendas and politics of power. Home is the river that runs forever into the sea, of change. Home is the whanau that loves you when you fail to impress. Home is living at ease in your skin. Are you nearly there […]
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“Let me keep my distance, always, from those who think they have the answers. Let me keep company always with those who say “Look!” and laugh in astonishment, and bow their heads.” – Mary Oliver I keep my distance from those who have no doubts. Their certainty a blunt instrument to beat me with “oughts, […]
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Behind and before, within and without, height and depths, comings and goings, beginnings and endings, near and far, in darkness and in the light, you know, the stranger in me. “O Lord, you have searched me and you know me.” Ps 139:1
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Autumn’s opus, crimson, red and rust, green and gold, the glory of season past. As grey limbs bear their naked soul, a leaf falls, blown by the wind, till its place, it knows no more.
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I had it, then I lost it. Sometime between 11.00pm and 4.00am. Somewhere between my head and my pillow. Lost. Never again to be thought of. Never to see the light of day. A brilliant idea.
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An animateur (animator) is one who “brings to life”. Animateurs are leaders who bring to life new ways of seeing, thinking and acting. An animateur needs to have the ability to stand outside the “play” to see beyond and to solve but also step into the “play” with total engagement.