Atarangi;

I am formed by the landscape of my growing years and what was there. The people, the places, things, feelings, love, lack of love, truth, lack of truth, more. The ancestral bloodline that gives me some traces to a people and a past that I may have journeyed in myself at that time with a different identity. They used to call me a handful, I remember my mum tying me to a chair because she couldn’t spend her time chasing after me when she had children before me and after me. Many was the time when my parents frustration boiled over and I paid a physical price. I was blessed to have people around me who had patience and understanding and took the time to quell a rambunctious child with a big personality. I often say, ‘had I have been born in this day and age I would have been shoved on Retalin to try and control my behaviour’. I really was 2 or 3 children rolled in to one.