Intermission

Well, that was a much longer "intermission" than I planned! But somehow, before you know it a week turns into a month and a month turns into a year... and here I am 18 months after my last blog post!

As you can probably guess, a lot has happened while I've been "away". Far too much to cover in any detail. By far the biggest change has been trying to get used to our new way of being without my "NZ Mum" as an almost daily part of our lives. It's still hard to accept that she has become "history", just a photo on the wall since her sudden death in November 2012. I think of her often, and frequently catch myself wondering "What would 'Nagymama' think?"

Other than that, the major change has been that I resigned from my Speech-Language Therapy job, effective in early February this year. Five days after my last day at work, I started studying Early Childhood Teaching - a "Graduate Diploma" via distance learning at Canterbury University. What a joy it has been to meet the others on my course at our regular "On-site intensives" at the university in Christchurch - such a diverse group of people. I've surprised myself with how easy it has been to slip back into full-time studying and I'm loving the intellectual challenge, even enjoying writing essays! Whilst I was in Christchurch studying in February, I finally delivered the 1000 paper cranes I started folding in 2011 after the fatal Christchurch earthquakes, and so many of you out there helped fold paper cranes for this project too. So I'm proud to say that our 1000 paper cranes formed part of the 3rd anniversary commemorations of the Canterbury earthquakes. Link to my original post re 1000 Paper Cranes.

The completed 1000 paper cranes just before handing over...

Another exciting thing for our family was our incredible round-the-world trip in December 2013/January 2014. We set off from NZ a week before Christmas and spent several days in Washington DC and then caught a train to New York for another few days. We flew from New York to London, arriving on Christmas Eve. After an unpleasant journey in a jam-packed train (standing room only) we made it to our family in Somerset late on Christmas Eve. We had a fantastic family Christmas, including spending time with my lovely 97 year old Grandad, both my parents, brother, nephew and niece. After a few weeks in the UK catching up with family and friends, we took a trip on the EuroStar train to Paris, and spent a wonderful few days exploring Paris from the sanctuary of our historic apartment in Les Chatelets. A couple of days in London, and then we came back home again via Tokyo. On our day trip to Mt Fuji from Tokyo, Sonny Jim finally got the snow he had been longing for all winter.

What a trip!

Anyway, I hope to update the blog again a bit more regularly from now on. I've really missed the pleasure of regular (non-academic!) writing... "Talk" soon :-)

Love. . . Hot air ballooning

Yes, we finally got airborne with Up, Up and Away on Saturday 7th April, and views like this sunrise were our reward! Hot air ballooning was amazing, an incredible experience and I am so glad we persevered through our 5 previous (failed) attempts to be "6th time lucky!"

The balloon was absolutely vast, and it took almost an hour to inflate it. . .

It is the second largest balloon in New Zealand, with a weight of 380 kg and it inflates to 340,000 cubic feet!

The balloon was made back in the city of my birth - Bristol, by renowned hot air balloon manufacturers Cameron Balloons "the world's most experienced balloon manufacturers."

The views were outstanding. . .

I was a wee bit nervous about the landing, but in the end it was pretty uneventful. The trouble is, hot air balloons don't have landing gear (!!) and once the basket hits the deck the balloon tends to keep going, dragging the basket with it. So the basket often tips right over and you land on your back! Brace position essential! However, we ended up only teetering on the diagonal for a while before the basket righted itself again, and as we dangled there diagonally we all burst out laughing. I certainly never expected the landing to be so funny! The next job was to fold the balloon back up again. . .

and then get the balloon and basket back onto the trailer again. . .

Finally we had the traditional champagne (or Fresh-up!) breakfast, and got anointed on our foreheads by the pilot with a cork dipped in champagne, as he recited the hot air balloonist's blessing!

So, if you ever get the chance to go hot air ballooning, I highly recommend it! It has been a dream of mine since childhood, and I can definitely say it was well worth the wait :) Apart from the necessary blasts of the gas burner, it is such a peaceful sensation, floating quietly along above the scenery, and certainly an experience I will remember for a very long time!

Photo copyright "Up, Up and Away"

Love. . . Christchurch, one year on.

Photo by Sam Sword, specifically for sharing (from Facebook)

Badge I wore today in recognition of those affected by CHCH earthquakes

"Arohanui CHCH" - my splash of knitted colour amongst the liquefaction grey in Christchurch, June 2011.

I thought I would say it with pictures again, as adequate words to describe today, or the last year, completely fail me. 

It has been a very emotional day right across the country. For my part I wore black and red today (and yesterday as I got the dates mixed up!) and went for some quiet time in the hospital chapel around the 12.51 pm time. Not that I am religious these days, but it just felt like the right place to be, somewhere to have an oasis of peace and quiet and thinking time. That included the 2 minute silence at 12.51 pm and I also lit a candle to remember all those affected by the quakes. A really emotional few minutes, and then I had to scuttle back to work and put the face of professionalism back on again. . . but Christchurch is not forgotten, any day of the year.

As for the 1000 Paper Cranes, I have them safely here, but it seems that King's Language School no longer exists, so I now have the conundrum of what to do with the cranes. Should I just send them all to a pre-school or school down in CHCH, or think about donating them to Japan instead, or some other solution? If you have any ideas, please leave me a comment. . . I know that so many people have put a lot of work into contributing these cranes (myself and family included), and I would love to know your ideas of what to do with them now that King's Language School seems to have disbanded. Thanks in advance.

Pohutukawa Christmas

Well, the "Eat, Knit, Love" blog has been on something of a holiday recently, so what better time than the holidays to pop back up again?! After all, it is traditionally a time of love, festive food and you can be sure I have squeezed in some knitting too!

It's the long summer holiday here and although this is my 10th Christmas in Aotearoa, I still haven't got used to the idea of the festive season being in the middle of a heat wave instead of a cold snap. However, I am doing my best to adapt, and we have developed several new traditions, such as having a homemade pavlova for Christmas breakfast, with the leftovers for pudding after Christmas dinner! Some years I do more Christmas baking than others, last year it was Stollen and this year it has been butter shortbread Christmas trees.

We are away from home for Christmas, house-sitting in Golden Bay, parts of which were ravaged by heavy flooding last week. However, the bit we are in is as beautiful as ever and it has been a gorgeous sunny day here in the Bay. While I was in Takaka on Christmas Eve I took a photo of a beautiful pohutukawa tree, resplendent in its red blooms. The pohutukawa is affectionately known as New Zealand's Christmas tree. After my little trip to Takaka, negotiating the Birds hill washout where the road disappeared down the hillside in the floods (now thankfully repaired with a single lane and traffic lights), I got back to our temporary home, and there was my bundle of Corriedale spinning fibre in the "pohukawa" colour way, from "Heavenly Wools". Photo above. . . Somehow I managed to find room to pack my Little Grace spinning wheel to bring to Golden Bay and I have been spinning every day so far.

Anyway, I wish you all a happy festive season, wherever you may be and whatever you are celebrating. . . May 2012 be a year full of happiness and good health for you and your loved ones. Special thoughts go out to all in Christchurch and Canterbury, as another swarm of earthquakes struck just before Christmas, with several between magnitude 5.0 and 6.0. Not sure how much more the people down there can be expected to endure :( Poor old CHCH. Here's hoping that 2012 sees the earthquakes starting to diminish in intensity. . .

PS I solemnly promise to get back to blogging regularly in the new year :)

Aroha (Love). . . Canterbury & CHCH 1 year on

"Love CHCH" cosy, against the backdrop of silt in Christchurch

Amazing to think it's 1 year today since the first earthquake, magnitude 7.1 struck near Christchurch. Miraculously, no-one died that day, but there was much worse to come on 22nd February with so many being injured or losing their lives, and there have now been more than 8,500 earthquakes/aftershocks in the region. Apparently, "Lights of Hope" will be switched on tonight to beam out over the city until 23rd February 2012.

Sending much love to all those who have suffered through this, or continue to be affected. You are not forgotten by the rest of us.

AROHANUI . . .

Thinking of you again, Christchurch. . .

. . . after yet more very sizeable earthquakes/aftershocks yesterday.  For those of you elsewhere in the world who may not have heard, the biggest two were magnitude 5.7 and 6.3 and the latter was only 6 km deep. I can only imagine how it must feel to live where the earth beneath your feet cannot be trusted from one minute to the next.

Sending much love and wishes for strength. . .

Arohanui and kia kaha.

Fold. . . how many paper cranes so far?! COMPETITION

This is the replacement version of the post I published on Thursday - cos blogger ate that one! Luckily only one person had posted a comment before the post disappeared, despite a large number of people having a look. So come on people, get those guesses in the comments below. . .

All the cranes so far. . . except five.

You remember my plan to fold/collect 1000 paper cranes for Christchurch and 1000 for Japan? (See this blog post if you want more info). A steady stream of paper cranes have flown in over the last few weeks. Some from the UK, many from around New Zealand, and I have kept folding too. All folded with love for the people of Christchurch and Japan.

But, the big question is: 
how many paper cranes do we have so far?

I haven't done a crane head-count yet, but if you would like to post your guess in the comments section below, I will award a mystery prize to the person/people with the closest guess. The prize is a mystery, cos I haven't decided what it is yet! Just a hint, in the photo above you can see all the cranes so far (except 5 which I managed to miss out of the photo - sorry E!) but although I didn't deliberately hide any cranes, I can't guarantee that they are all visible either. . .
To enter the competition, post your guess in a comment below by midnight on Saturday 28th May, New Zealand time. I will announce the winner(s) by midnight Tuesday 31st May.

Huge thanks to the following (in no particular order)who have supplied contributions towards the first 1000 paper cranes:

S-L in Christchurch
S in Waitakere
K in Palmerston North
M in Red Beach
C and helpers in Auckland
L and J in Tasman
C, M, C, K, and A in Nelson
E in the UK

Hopefully I didn't miss anyone off that list - but if I did (oh, the shame), then please let me know and I will fix up the list right away.

Fold. . . 1000 paper cranes update

Cranes folded by work colleagues and me

For the full story, see this blog post. I have been folding these cranes on and off for a few weeks now and above you can see a photo of the paper cranes I have folded, along with some contributed by workmates during lunch breaks. Between us we have folded 44, which might not seem like much, but that's quite a lot of folding! On Wednesday this week when I got to work there were two envelopes waiting for me and they were literally bulging with paper cranes! 28 of them, sent by an exceptionally kind Christchurch resident, "S-L".

Cranes just arrived from "S-L" in CHCH

I have never met this woman, but her kindness in both actions and words is amazing and humbling, particularly given that she lives right in Christchurch, which has been so badly affected by earthquakes since last September. Along with the beautiful little cranes, she sent a note in each envelope that gave me a tear in my eye and a lump in my throat - I was so touched by what she wrote. Here is a little snippet: "The fact you wanted to honour our lost made me want to honour you through giving you what I could. As I have folded, I have put as much blessings, hope, peace and eventually happiness into them, and I hope as you string them together, these blessings flow onto you and your loved ones too."

All the cranes so far. . . 72/1000

We've got a long way to go yet until the 1000 cranes are completed, but with amazing people around like S-L, I am sure we will get there.

If any of you reading this would like to help out, the instructions on how to fold an origami crane are here and you can e-mail me at yarnificationz (at) gmail (dot) com for a postal address. Next school term I am planning to ask my son's class teacher if I can get his class involved in the project too . . . I will offer to go in and show them how to fold the cranes and each child can fold at least two - one for the 1000 Cranes Project and one for themselves. Watch this space :-)

Fold. . . teeny tiny paper cranes

Tiniest crane perched on my little finger

In-between folding loads of full-sized cranes for my 1000 Cranes for Christchurch and Japan effort, I have been having a play with making teeny-tiny paper cranes with the offcuts. Above and below you see my tiniest efforts to date. Their wingspan just reaches 2 cm! No, before you ask, I don't have small hands - in fact I have larger than average ones, I just like a challenge ;-)

I am planning to have a go at making some earrings out of these tiny cranes. If I succeed I will update this post with the results! Meanwhile progress towards the 1000 full-size cranes continues. . . help still welcome. Here's a photo of the first 30 on a big platter. . .

If you'd like to fold a few cranes for Christchurch and Japan, just get in touch via the comments or email address yarificationz (at) gmail (dot) com

Thanks :-)

Fold. . . a thousand paper cranes for Christchurch and Japan

Paper cranes I folded yesterday, some with flapping action.

My heart goes out to all those suffering in Japan after the magnitude 9.0 earthquake on 11th March. The proportions of the disaster just defy belief, and the tv footage is so disturbing - how on earth can people muster strength to survive an earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster, when any single one of those would be a catastrophe in its own right?

I imagine many of you are familiar with the story of 1000 paper cranes, but for those who aren't - here's a brief outline.

There is an ancient Japanese story which says that if anyone manages to fold 1000 origami paper cranes, they will be granted one wish by a crane. Sadaki Sasako was only two years old when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, near her home by Misasa Bridge in 1945. Over the years she became sick and was eventually diagnosed with leukaemia. She was hospitalised in February 1955 (aged 12) and given a maximum of a year to live. A friend of hers visited her in hospital and gave Sadaki a golden paper crane she had folded. This reminded Sadaki of the ancient Japanese story. Sadaki decided to fold 1000 paper cranes, hoping that then the crane would grant her wish to be well again. Sadly, Sadaki died on 25th October 1955, and stories vary as to whether she finished her 1000 cranes or not. Her story lives on and there are statues of her holding the original golden paper crane in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial and Seattle Peace Park. There is a plaque at the base of the statue in Hiroshima Peace Park that reads: "This is our cry. This is our prayer. Peace on Earth."

The picture below is from the Wikipedia Creative Commons.

Statue of Sadaki Sasako in Seattle Peace Park

I have decided I will fold 1000 paper cranes as a wish that people in Japan, Christchurch and disaster zones elsewhere in the world will find peace in their hearts and the strength to carry on and rise up from the ruins and incredible suffering around them. I will be sending positive thoughts to all those affected in Japan and Christchurch as I fold. Once they are finished, I plan to string the 1000 cranes together and give them to the King's Language School in Christchurch (where 68 overseas students, and 9 staff died in the earthquake, in the collapsed and fire-riddled 6 storey CTV building) My aim is to let them know that people elsewhere in the country (and the world) are thinking of them, by using the 1000 cranes as a metaphor for offering hope and a wish for a peaceful future. Many of the lost students at King's Language School were Japanese, but regardless of ethnicity, I hope the thought will be appreciated. Here's a link to the names and nationalities of all those from King's Language School missing/dead in the earthquake. It is so sad to read all those names and think of all those young people so far away from their homes and loved ones when they died. As a mother and as someone who lives a world away from her family of birth, that really gets to me. . .

In fact, of course, the whole situation and ALL the deaths really get to me, and this is just one little thing I want to do to help, to send thoughts, aroha (love) and strength to all those affected. It may be a very small thing, but it's all I can do, having already given what I can monetarily to the earthquake relief funds. I just hope it will be well-received. I have no fixed time limit in mind, just as soon as I can fold/gather 1000 cranes and get them threaded together, I will deliver the cranes to Christchurch. It's approximately 5.5 hours drive away - perfectly do-able with an overnight stop.

If any of you reading this would like to send me some paper cranes to help make up the 1000 I would be delighted. It doesn't have to be fancy paper, anything will do (even junk mail!), but please make sure the squares you start with are at least 15 cm square.


Here's a clickable link to a pdf of illustrated instructions to make an origami paper crane.
For those of you who don't know me personally, please contact me at yarnificationz (at) gmail (dot) com and/or with a comment below and I will let you know where to post those cranes. . .

If by a small miracle I end up with over 1000 cranes thanks to all of your generosity, then I will start folding and collecting the next 1000 cranes to send to a pre-school or school in Japan which has been badly affected.

By the way, I first heard of the story of Sadaki and the 1000 paper cranes back in the early 1990s, by way of a song entitled "Cranes over Hiroshima" from American folk singer Fred Small. The lyrics and guitar chords can be found here.

Love. . . is a fearsome thing!

 "Love is a fearsome thing
It pays no mind to the colour of your skin or your gender
Love is a power so fierce and tender
Flies on its own sweet wing
Oh, love is a fearsome thing."

That's the chorus from the song "Love is a fearsome thing" by Australian folk singer Judy Small. It's not my favourite Judy Small song by any means, but it is one that whirrs around in my head from time to time, maybe because it is so relevant to my own situation! You see, I'm the "rainbow sheep" of the family:

Photo courtesy of 14 rainbows in strange places

Anyway, I just wanted to send a bit of love to my family - both to my lovely wife and son, and to my parents and extended family, many of whom I don't get to see very often as we live on opposite sides of the planet - but guess what? I love you!!!

Tragic events like the recent Christchurch earthquake remind you that there is nothing as important as the people that you love. My all-time favourite Māori proverb (Whakataukī) echoes this sentiment. . .

"He aha te mea nui o te ao?
 He tangata! He tangata! He tangata!"

"What is the most important thing in the world?
It is people! It is people! It is people!"

Knit. . . Premature baby stuff for CHCH, plus a bit about Pēpi Pods and traditional wahakura

A bit of "charity knitting" today. . .
One of the lovely women at Nelson Knit Night (we shall call her "C") has contacted Nelson Hospital Special Care Baby Unit (SCBU) to ask if the Christchurch Neonatal Unit might be needing some woolly hats and bootees for the prem babies down there. The answer was yes, as due to all the stress caused by the earthquake they are expecting more premature births than usual in the Christchurch area. Thus the call went out to our little band of knitters/crocheters. "C" has offered to courier the knitted goodness down to Christchurch once she has gathered enough items together. Wifie and I have knitted 3 pairs of bootees between us so far and I have started on a ribby hat.

Bootees by Lulu at the back, mine at the front. . .

Meanwhile, I told my mum over in the UK what we were up to and she has decided to donate a big bag full of prem-size baby bootees to the Christchurch Neonatal Unit as well! Alongside all her other knitting, mum usually knits enough tiny bootees until she fills a large tin with them and then donates them to her local SCBU, but this time it's the babies of CHCH who will benefit. "Love knitted into every stitch" as the saying goes in our family! I am planning to knit a few more hats and Lulu is part way through a pair of bootees, then I will give it all to "C" to send down to Christchurch. it's a small gesture, but hopefully one that will offer a little comfort to some of the most vulnerable babies in Christchurch.

Talking of vulnerable babies in the Christchurch area, I recently came across an appeal for sponsorship of "Pēpi Pods" for Christchurch, on the website Change for our Children. A Pēpi Pod is a protected space for babies to sleep in during their first months of life.

Baby in Pēpi Pod.

The primary purpose of a Pēpi Pod is to reduce the incidence of Sudden Unexpected Death in Infancy (SUDI) in babies most at risk. Babies considered most vulnerable to SUDI include those born prematurely, those exposed to smoke in utero or after birth, babies who are not fed breast-milk (whether expressed breast milk or directly breastfed) babies of low birthweight and those not placed on their backs to sleep.  From the website link above: "The pepi-pod is such a space for more vulnerable babies who need to be close to a parent AND safe when they sleep. . . The Pepi-Pod is a low-cost 'safe sleep' option for more vulnerable babies (those who bed share with mothers who smoked in pregnancy). It is expected, in time, to be more readily available, so that all babies have the opportunity for protection during sleep. Pepi means 'baby' in Maori and of course a pod protects seeds during a vulnerable time for a plant."
Photo above taken from Sunday Star Times article 16.11.10




There is also a traditional safe sleeping space for babies in Māori culture and this is known as a wakahura. It is a hand-woven flax/harakeke "bassinet" or "Moses basket" for babies up to 5 or 6 months of age. It is portable and provides a safe space for baby to sleep, returning to a traditional Māori way of sleeping babies. Wahakura roughly means "Something to carry a precious baby." The picture below is taken from the Canterbury Breastfeeding Network website.

Safe bed-sharing with a wahakura

 With both the wahakura and the pēpi pods, it is essential that safe sleeping rules are also followed.



For anyone interested, the cost of sponsoring a complete Pēpi Pod is NZ$46, but they are also looking for people who are able to sew covers to the specified measurements, and the dimensions are given on the website. Please follow this link.

St David's Day solemnity

Today was St David's Day. Usually I look around at home and try to find a silk daffodil left over from the NZ Cancer Society's Daffodil Day in August and pin it on my shirt to show I am celebrating "Dydd Gwyl Dewi Sant." Not today. This morning I put on my black trousers, red shirt and a solemn face as I prepared to go to work. Canterbury rugby colours, a small symbol of standing shoulder to shoulder with those in earthquake-stricken Canterbury.

Today at 12.51 pm, most people in New Zealand stood silent for two minutes to think about those who have died or been injured in the earthquake that struck Christchurch at 12.51 pm last Tuesday. A few colleagues and I made our way over to the hospital chapel to share this time with other staff and patients and two of the chaplains, in an informal gathering to stand together thinking of all those affected. Very sobering. Even after the official period of silence was over, many of us didn't talk for some time, lost in our own thoughts.

My 10 year old son, whom we shall call "Sonny Jim," told me they stood quietly in the playground at school for two minutes silence today during their usually rowdy lunch break. Children and teachers together. 18 children from Christchurch now attend his school, for however long it takes. . .

So, no "Happy St David's Day!" for me this year. But instead, an outpouring of thoughts and love for Christchurch. . . from all around New Zealand and the rest of the world.

Earthquake map of Christchurch area

Today I found a link which really brings home the number and intensity of earthquakes the Canterbury area has been experiencing since last September. It's a map of the area, and the earthquakes show up as coloured circles one after the other. It can show you all the earthquake activity since 4th September 2010 or you can pick a single date. I looked at 22nd Feb and there were only two earthquakes before 12.51 pm, then there were earthquakes going off every few minutes. There were 65 earthquakes that day, some as shallow as 2 km.

Here's the link: Christchurch Quake Map

As of Sunday, the confirmed number killed by the earthquake is 147, but this figure is expected to rise beyond 200. At the Nelson "Opera in the Park" concert on Saturday night there were lots of us wearing Canterbury colours (red and black) in solidarity with those from Christchurch and surrounding area. The Red Cross were doing a collection and by the end of the night they had raised NZ$14,000 for the Christchurch Earthquake Appeal. There was a minute's silence to remember the dead and injured and various artists played tribute songs including "Bless the Child" and "Holy Cow." On Tuesday 1st March, at 12.51 pm, exactly a week after the earthquake struck there will be a national 2 minute silence, and people are being encouraged to wear red and black.

Still no-one has been pulled alive from the rubble since Wednesday afternoon and as time goes on, hope starts to fade. . . this truly is a disaster of devastating proportions: people dead and injured, buildings crumbled and lives in turmoil. The psychological effects will go on for years to come. But as Linda Topp (of the Topp Twins) said at the concert on Saturday night "Canterbury, we are all here for you, for now and the rest of our lifetimes." I am paraphrasing, but that is what I recall. The applause in response was deafening. . . all our hearts go out to everyone affected, and it's the whole country's disaster, not just Canterbury's. We will stand strong together and do what we can to help Christchurch, Lyttelton and Sumner re-build - shattered lives as well as shattered buildings.

Edited 1st March 2011. Here is Lynda Topp's exact quote, taken from this article in the Nelson Mail online: "We know that Cantabrians are here with us tonight. We are here for you Canterbury and we will stay here for you for the rest of our lives. This is not just for Canterbury to go through, New Zealand and the world are here for you," said Lynda Topp with the support of her sister Jools.

Love… to all those in Christchurch or with loved ones down there.

Today another earthquake struck Christchurch. Unlike the first one on 4th September, this one happened at a busy time on a weekday. 12.51 pm on a Tuesday lunchtime. It was a magnitude 6.3 quake, at a depth of only 5 kilometres, and centred only 10 km south-east of the city centre. Between 4th September and today there have been several thousand aftershocks. It seems likely they have had a cumulative effect to weaken buildings. There are scenes of utter devastation on the television and at this stage (8pm Tuesday) there are already 65 confirmed dead. The cathedral is all but destroyed, multi-storey buildings have collapsed, as if made of matchsticks. There will be many more casualties and fatalities. So many people still trapped in buildings and under rubble.

Even up here, safely out of the way of the effects of the earthquake, it is very affecting. "Wifie" rang me at work at 1.20 pm to tell me the earthquake news. She cried as she told me. I felt physically sick. I quickly told those at my workplace. We all stood around dazed. Meetings were cancelled, no-one could concentrate properly. Feelings of nausea welled up from knotted stomachs. As a family we are grieving for those in Christchurch. Thinking of those with loved ones down there, desperately wishing them safe. Glued to the tv coverage, downcast. Words seem trite and paltry. When we heard the first official death toll tonight, "Wifie" and I both spontaneously burst into tears. We don't even have close friends or family down there, yet still feel so emotionally affected.

Wishing much strength and love to everyone in the Christchurch area, or with loved ones there.
"Kia kaha" (be strong) and "Arohanui" (much love). You are in all of our thoughts…