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Driving through Taupiri it would be easy to think there’s nothing special about this little place but you’d be wrong. Taupiri is the sacred mountain of the Waikato people. It is remembered in the tribal saying:
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Do you remember when you were growing up, those moments when you felt left out from a peer group or even among particular friends within your own group of friends. This isn’t a sense of ‘belonging’ incognito. No, it’s something quite different though
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I miss the open spaces of my childhood but I’m caught in a bind. The city is where I’ve lived most of my life but it’s the smell of the country that makes me feel alive again, the smell of open space and it’s reminder of a different kind of days work that
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