The Nahuatl word “apapachar” -- a truly Latin embrace
May 18, 2018Have you ever felt embraced by a person or a place? I have that sense about Aotearoa/New Zealand, a place I came to originally in 1983 and spent almost 30 years discovering. I feel a deep connection to this land and she has a great sense of aliveness for me. I call her "she" because in Maori tradition, Papatuanuku is the name of the Earth Mother. The longer I spent living on her hills and under the starry skies of the South Pacific, the more I sensed that she chose the people who would come to explore her and those who could stay. One of those transplants is my friend Jaqueline Benndorf -- originally from Uruguay -- who is both a skilled counsellor and an artist. She creates embracing environments, so her story in a word came as no surprise -- apapachar.
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