what’s beyond the wildest, most audacious dream you’ve ever had?

It feels a little bit weird, I’ll be honest.. for a quarter of this year we focused on that whakapapa sequence and the past week has felt like I’m still bathing in the flow on from it even though the wai (water) has ceased to flow or been diverted elsewhere.

How timely that that’s also how I tend to feel around this time of year during the Christmas and the Gregorian New Year phase that all blurs into the same thing. Kinda.. Wherever you are, whomever you’re with — be safe and be love.

So I decided why not have this cycle serve a similar purpose and be a time to share whakaaro (thoughts, ideas) not directly related to a theme as I usually (try) to do, but share something thought provoking nonetheless.

In the last cycle we covered light.

How we’re created from light, so therefore are light and radiate light intrinsically just by being who we are.

I loved paring that up with visualising and manifesting — seeing the thing in our mind before it’s materialised and letting that light pull us through and over obstacles that may come our way. In the last month I’ve had some time to reflect, yeah, more than usual because I’ve been forced to take some time to rest.

Awa (river) of thought guided me down a current of thinking about how some parts of my life are so great. They’re amazing. Beyond what I could dream of living and experiencing.

“If you describe something as being beyond your wildest dreams, you are emphasising that it is better than you could have imagined or hoped for.”

Thanks for the definition, Collins dictionary.

I make no secret of the fact there are parts of my life that need some serious attention. I’ve been out with a fever twice in the past month — not a habit I want to perpetuate by any means and probably the result of workload and travel — butttttt…… while I have a couple of focus areas, there are some streams that flow into the puna (pool) of my life that are beyond anything I could ever dream to enjoy, experience and live.

For starters, I’m alive. I’m here and grateful for all of it. That’s the starting point, so everything else is a bonus, really…

I get to work alongside super talented humans at Ariki Creative who whip up magic and make it feel like my birthday and Christmas everyday.

I get to call inspiring, aspirational, talented, resilient, beautiful, amazing people my friends and whānau and create a bit of magic with them too, in various kaupapa and projects.

I get to share my life with incredible humans who also for one reason or another, choose to share their lives, their whānau and experiences with me.

And the most recent addition, I get to do life with a special human who is beyond any dream I could dream.

Wild, audacious or otherwise.

When I think about the whakapapa (genealogy, process) of it, we’re entering Io (Supreme Being, God, existence) territory. Because dreams and ideas lie in the realm of Te Kore, so what’s beyond that? Io.

Haha what do I know, maybe it’s the high of new love talking. But that’s how it feels and if we’re talking about metaphoric expressions of light and what’s beyond it……. this could be a starting point.

Perhaps… it still begs the question, what’s beyond the wildest, most audacious dream you’ve ever had? And what might be even further beyond it?

Tēnā tātou,

Hana.