NEWS FROM THE KOANGA INSTITUTE     

MAY 07

I've been thinking about all the people I've written about in our Institute catalogues that have inspired me over the past years.... what was it about them or their lives that really got me excited... it was things like.. choosing to live without a mortgage so you could choose what you did when you got up in the morning 'having a life”, things like commitment to community, living simply, living out side the consumer culture, living in extended families, peacefulness, saving the seeds...

All of those qualities will be part of the shape of the next part of my life, as they already were to some extent before I left Kohatu Toa
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I'm doing lots of things for me, sitting, day dreaming, walking, yoga, eating a lot of raw food, and feeling myself heal from years of working too hard. Of course I have a big a garden already, and I'm enjoying that as well.We're learning how to drive a 'boat' rather than a car , really enjoying the isolation and peacefulness of this place and dreaming the future shape....

There are plenty of reminders of the outside world, the flights from Christchurch to Auckland go over our heads and leave amazing jet streams across the sky, we can see the pollution from Wellington and their is plenty of top soil going into the deep clear waters from the pine tree harvesting. We are all in the same world.

I'm looking forward to going back up to Koanga next week to help Benji in the nursery over the serious propagation time and also to do several more plant collection trips around the Kaipara.
I can see many similarities between the Sounds and the Kaipara.....I'm looking forward to seeing the shape that emerges out of the shifts...

Arohanui

Kay

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