Mānawatia a Matariki

What’s going on, Internet? Mānawatia a Matariki, Happy Māori New Year! Today is a time for remembrance, celebrating the present, and looking to the future. In Māori culture, Matariki is the Pleiades star cluster and a celebration of its first rising in late June or early July. The rising marks the beginning of the new year in the Māori lunar calendar. See Matariki. I’ve spent the day on Waiheke, down on Onetangi with my amazing wife and family. We spent the morning on the beach. The early afternoon at The HEKE for a long lunch and then cuddled up with the kids watching Bluey this evening. I hope you’ve had a relaxing day too. If you want to get into some great homegrown kiwi music, RNZ put on ‘Waiata 100: New Zealand’s most beloved homegrown songs’ today, counting down the most loved kiwi songs as voted by 65,000 kiwis. Lots of great music in there, my only complaint is that a lot of bangers from the last decade have been overlooked I guess based on the voter generation. I’ll follow…