A History of Kindness

By Kirstie McKinnon | Posted: Wednesday Feb 19, 2025

Practising Trust

I’ve been travelling this month, a journey with my rangatahi as they embark. For ages I thought rangatahi (a Māori word for young person) was spelled rangi-tahi — my own interpretation of this word was: child from the sky. Then I learned that the actual spelling of young-person in Māori is: rangatahi, which means youth, and also a fishing net about 20 metres long. Rangitahi means brief.