KNOWLEDGE IS A LIVING THING

We are all vessels of knowledge to one degree or another and we all play a part in maintaining or developing that pool of knowledge for our future generations. Obviously as technology advances our knowledge base is expanded and by the sametoken as we get further from our past some knowledge becomes obsolete and is often consigned to the record of our history. Knowledge is a living breathing entity and as the generations come and go... the knowledge accumulated is passed on and the next generation becomes custodians of that collection... thus the knowledge lives.

Today we are the conscious portion of that knowledge base and it is our duty to share what we know and forward it to our children, grandchildren and beyond. Thus our genealogical record... our whakapapa... transcends many generations to tell us who we are... and where we came from. It measures our mana... it gathers our wairua... and it enhances our aroha. We are who we are because of our whakapapa... and I am very proud to be me... to be MAORI... MAURIORA

(the artwork is called TIWHANARAU... and represents the many tiwhana - or forehead design patterns- that go into making me who I am)