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Today, I had to drop our car off to a location in Tāmaki that saw me drive through the walkways of my past.
As I tried to maintain focus on the road ahead, snapshots of my childhood popped up as my eyes drifted left and right to find focus on landmarks.
Here was where your mum parked the car to take you shopping.
There, the pathways to the supermarket behind.
Turn right for the market garden - now occupied by new buildings and new industry.
Next, the main highway where we were not to bike only walk with cars speeding by.
Then the shops of Ellerslie that saw tired feet tread to and from school, and the athletics grounds where running handicaps were given but placing never occurred.
I struggled to keep in the present day as the ghosts of these simple things mixed in my mind to make me unsure of where in the timeline I was.
And why now were my past memories flooding my present flow?
Is there something I need to look at?
What gems were trying to venture forth?
Now in an Uber after dropping off my car, I have space to think on the journey, my drifting through memory-lane, and the importance of mixing the past and the present.
Too often I try to forge ahead forgetting the tools and touch points I have already crafted and held. It is working with our past that we form more robust presentations for present day centric futures.
So, I pause to ponder on the messagings that have occurred and work through what I am to bring to this hui I am travelling too.
And maybe it is just that - the acknowledgment that we travel to hui not go to them.
That we can honour what has been by bringing it forward into the collective and now.
Remember where and how we were grown, and bring all we are to what we are doing.
So thank you memory-lane for gifting me this reminder.
I will bring all I am forward.
Today.
Aroha nui,
Timmy x
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