being filled up

this trip filled me up

it was so amazing to be present to the beauty of Aotearoa, to feel like i was in another country because it is so different to my home... and yet it is still part of the same nation....

this photo is in a beach south of where i live, where i had never been before - the Auckland regional council cleverly made these ornate frames to frame the beauty of our land....

our girls are part of the picture of the beauty of our country!

i will post a photo with why it now claims part of my heart as often as i can....

with love
jane

how did i get so damned blessed?

i truely live in a beautiful place

and everyday i count the blessings of the green around me and the coast and the feeling of being amoung the luckiest inhabitants of this planet - not only because of my health and my family and my abundance but because of where we live...

Te Tai Tokerau in Aotearoa New Zealand is a remarkable collection of beauty, soul and spirit.

The trees talk.

The rivers sing.

The ocean chants again and again.

And they are the sounds that resonate with my heartbeat.

Here is where i went yesterday... Matapouri Beach and Whale bay .. a walk through the coastal bush, over cliffs... past the scene of my first kiss, in sight of the place where my mother disowned me, in the presence of the place where i first felt seen.

This is my home.