Through Christchurch, Whakaari, the murder of Grace Millane, it is the Māori rituals, and each other, that sustain usThe phrase “a year that was bookended by tragedy” is too neat, somehow.Tragedy moves through time differently from other events. Time seems to stop then start again fitfully. As it gathers momentum, its passing feels cruel, as if demanding that we gain perspective and return to our ordinary lives. Those early and late events of 2019 in Aotearoa – the massacre in Christchurch in March, and the eruption of Whakaari in November – did strange things to the future, too. Continue reading…
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