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Discovering home
What a week it has been. The New Zealand Geographic team has moved to working from home, and we've rapidly redrawn plans around stories that we can cover from indoors rather than outdoors. We hope that wherever you're spending the lockdown, you and your whānau are safe and well.
Today I'm sharing a story that celebrates what's familiar. New Zealand Geographic co-founder Kennedy Warne's local awa is Oakley Creek/Te Auaunga in suburban Auckland, and he's walked alongside it countless times. Seven years ago, he decided to walk more consciously. Oakley Creek would be his Walden Pond. There he would go to notice the world around him, to reflect, to experience life more deeply. You can read about what he discovered here.
As we spend our days within the same walls, as we take walks along the same paths, I hope Kennedy's journey inspires you to notice the small wonders around you.
—Rebekah White, editor
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Life in a tiny house
We published this story in New Zealand Geographic in 2018, when the tiny-house movement was really getting underway. It speaks to some questions that we've been asking again recently: What makes people happy in their home environment? How much space do we really need?
And as our own houses feel smaller and smaller... what do people who've chosen this lifestyle do when they need space?
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From our bubble to yours...
New Zealand Geographic is working from home, like everyone else. Publisher James Frankham has commandeered his great-grandfather’s desk—a piece of furniture that has survived the Great Depression, government deregulation, shipwrecks, World War II, the ‘87 stock market crash, the Global Financial Crisis... Now it needs to see through the Covid-19 lockdown of 2020.
"I’m not generally superstitious,” says Frankham. (He's lying.) “But it's weirdly comforting to think that history can be imbued in material things… like DNA exists in us.”
The Frankham family’s 12-week old retriever, Leo, provides both entertainment and document-shredding services. Along with Leo's inability to follow basic instructions and questionable personal hygiene standards, his role is not covered by the Wage Subsidy, and consequently his future within the organisation remains uncertain.
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