Kōtuku Titihuia Nuttall

“Each no-dig hāngi we make in the oven with cabbage leaves sutures a different part of me back together. Every time we collect and cook something together with love and joy makes up for every time I ate until I was sick. We take a small moment each day to stand in my parents’ garden in the sun. To nourish ourselves, we harvest the earth and the beings that spring from it. All our small attempts to care for ourselves and each other wash away some of the shadowy figures that have followed us around for so long.
I have a knife, a basket, and two legs. He kai kei aku ringa.”
― Kōtuku Titihuia Nuttall, Tauhou