A story floats lightly behind my fondness for this phrase. Recently I traveled to New Zealand with a few members of my close family; we went to reunite with family who live "Down Under".
While there, I met a Maori artist, a gentle and lovely person. (Maori are the indigenous culture living in New Zealand). He wanted to know about the land where I came from; I described the rural coastal area outside of Seattle, on the Pacific Ocean.
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The saltwater beach near my home on the Olympic Peninsula, Washington. Part of an ongoing series of rituals and works about water. photo: Jessica Plumb Productions |
He said this with such evident warmth and pleasure, startling to my American ears, that I felt as though I had been invited into his family.
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