by Juliet Batten | 24, Apr, 2024 | Seasons Newsletter
Every Sunday my Aunt Jessie would visit the graveyard. The graveyard lay on the other side of town, a little further out than our house, so it became a natural thing for me to join her at our gate and run alongside. This is how I came to explore the... 
by Juliet Batten | 18, Mar, 2024 | Seasons Newsletter
Happy autumn equinox/Ngahuru! And to you in the northern hemisphere, happy spring equinox! At equinox on March 20, light and dark, day and night come into balance. At equinox, our two hemispheres of this planet come into balance. We are together,... 
by Juliet Batten | 27, Apr, 2023 | Uncategorized
Autumn is a season of release. Leaves fall, light fades, crickets slow down then cease their song, the days shorten, and flowers drop into the earth. I’m in the flow of the season, letting go of small things (and some big), taking stones to... 
by Juliet Batten | 10, Apr, 2023 | Seasons Newsletter
Did you know that in te ao Māori there was a month in which so little happened that it was often dropped from the calendar altogether? We are approaching that month now. At present we are in Paengawhāwhā, the eleventh month of the Māori calendar.... by Juliet Batten | 28, Apr, 2022 | Seasons Newsletter
Every Sunday my Aunt Jessie would visit the graveyard. The graveyard lay on the other side of town, a little further out than our house, so it became a natural thing for me to join her at our gate and run alongside. This is how I came to explore the...