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Twelve Thousand Miles To Visit A Tree in New Zealand

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Deb Steele
Jan 02, 2026
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Deb Steele was a finalist in the AofA Awards with this brilliant piece…

I was sitting in a circle of women at the close of our three day retreat in Glastonbury, January 2020 just before the beginnings of a changed world. One of the women talked about kauri trees - I’d never heard of them before, and in my mind, I saw the word as cowrie, like the shells. …

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