

Finding Zen in Unexpected Places: How My Mother's Early Dementia Is Teaching Me to Embrace the Present Moment
The practice is not to become enlightened in the future...[it] is full, vulnerable, intimate, open participation in our immediate experience
Sep 7, 2024


I am my father's daughter
I am my father's daughter
I have his eyes
I am the product of his sacrifice
I am the accumulation of the dreams of generations
Aug 12, 2024


The Japanese Cowboy: An Encounter with Amami's “Zorba the Buddha”
“I would like you to enjoy the wholeness of your being, when your body, your heart, your intellect all fall in tune. I have called that...
Apr 5, 2024


Words That Reconnect: Re-imagining Language for Social Change
“Many words are walked in the world. Many worlds are made. Many worlds make us. There are words and worlds that are lies and injustices....
Jan 9, 2024


Connecting islands through history, war and migration: an oral history and digital storytelling project
New Zealand's last surviving veteran of the Second World War's Battle of Crete died last year aged 104. Brant Robinson was one of the...
Nov 12, 2023


Hiroshima: a visceral encounter
It was a hot day in Hiroshima but there were three places I wanted to visit before I took the ferry to Miyajima: a restored samurai’s...
Jun 20, 2023


Co-witnessing and presencing as preconditions to meaningful solidarity (an early draft)
If you see with your mind wide open, that seeing holds the seeds for sensing. If you sense with your mind and heart wide open, that...
May 10, 2023


Luminous Darkness: Book Review*
According to the Maori tradition, there are three baskets of knowledge: te kete tuauri (sacred knowledge/light), te kete tuatea...
Apr 30, 2023