Shout-out to Anahera, Alex, and Curtis, who made this tarapouahi—muka garment—especially for me to wear today. I acknowledge all the artists, weavers, and performers who express in myriad art forms and with their bodies what is often so hard to capture in words, and to our poets and writers, whose words bring us clarity, solace, inspiration, and vision. If my parents created the foundation of that kākahu, it was my siblings, Desmond, Lorna, and Lynn, who helped me stop it unravelling as we dealt with the rollercoaster that was our childhood and, to be fair, most of my life.