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Grounded

Grounded. Respecting the holy earth under our feet. Moses and the burning bush. Moses, Moses … do not come any closer. Take off your sandals because you are on holy ground. I am the God of your ancestors…’ Exodus 3:1-6. ‘ Tongariro! O Taranaki Your splendour!.

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Grounded

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  1. Grounded Respecting the holy earth under our feet.

  2. Moses and the burning bush Moses, Moses … do not come any closer. Take off your sandals because you are on holy ground. I am the God of your ancestors…’ Exodus 3:1-6

  3. ‘Tongariro! O TaranakiYour splendour!

  4. Your shooting of spear points, keenSea – wet to the sun!

  5. Tree-tops! Lo, waving of branches! breath of the forest

  6. Lo mosses and ferns of the forest! How sweet on the salt came the breath of the forest

  7. Sweet on the spacious silence the ring of the Tui’s rich throat!

  8. Red – as – blood Rata, and bright – as – blood pohutakawa

  9. Midsummer clouds, curling luminous up from the skyline:

  10. Far fallen islands of light, summon’d back to the sun

  11. Is there a sun in the sea? A young sky in the water?

  12. A sea deep in the sea?’

  13. Where will we go if the earth should disappear?

  14. Solid

  15. Beautiful

  16. Freedom and Space

  17. God’s creatures

  18. Peace

  19. Papatuanuku ‘Our earth speaks to us, and we must listen if we want to survive.’ Pope Benedict XVI, July 24, 2007

  20. Be still, notice...

  21. there is treasure under our feet

  22. Take off your sandals because you are standing on holy ground

  23. Respect the earth. Acknowledgements • Poetry: excerpts from Maui’s Fish - apoem by Blanche Baughan (published 1908) • Photography: Elizabeth Sullivan, Catherine Gibbs, Marika Last, Angela Vidal photography, Gershom Sissing, Russell Lamb http://my.opera.com/AOTEAROAnz/blog/index.dml/tag/Tui Reduce your carbon footprint.

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