He uaua pea te tuku i ō taonga tawhito ki tētahi toa hokohoko tawhito, engari ko te whakaaro kia ora anō ō taonga. Whai muri i te tukunga, ka tukuna ki te rangatira hou. Engari me pēhea te whakarite i ēnei mea mō te whakamahi anō?
He whare putunga iti, e toru ngā papa, arā, ko 26 Valencia i San Francisco, he wheketere hu tawhito i mua. Inaianei, kei konei ngā koha mutunga kore ki te Ope Whakaora, ā, i roto, he rite ki tētahi tāone iti.
"Kei te wāhi tango taonga mātou ināianei," te kōrero mai a Cindy Engler, te kaiwhakahaere whanaungatanga ā-iwi mō Te Ope Whakaora. I kite mātou i ngā wakatō kī tonu i ngā putea para, ngā pouaka, ngā rama, ngā kararehe whakakīkī - i haere tonu mai ngā mea, ā, he haruru te wāhi.
"Nō reira, koinei te taahiraa tuatahi," tana kī. "Ka tangohia mai i te taraka, kātahi ka whakarōpūtia i runga i te wāhanga o te whare e anga atu ana ki reira mō ētahi atu whakarōpūtanga."
I heke māua ko Engler ki roto i te hōhonutanga o tēnei whare putunga nui e toru ngā papa. Ahakoa te wāhi e haere ana koe, ka whakarōpūhia e tetahi ngā koha ki roto i ngā rau mīhini kirihou. He āhua motuhake tō ia wāhanga o te whare putunga: he whare pukapuka kei reira e rima ngā rūma me ngā whata pukapuka e 20 putu te teitei, he wāhi e tunua ai ngā moenga ki roto i te oumu nui kia haumaru ai mō te hoko anō, me te wāhi hoki hei penapena i ngā taonga whakapaipai.
I hikoi a Engler i mua i tētahi o ngā kāreti. "He whakapakoko, he taonga takaro ngohengohe, he kete, kāore koe e mōhio he aha te mea e tupu ana i konei," tana karanga.
"I tae mai pea inanahi," te kī a Engler i a mātou e taha atu ana i te iwi e rapu ana i roto i ngā puranga kākahu.
"I tēnei ata i whakarōpūhia e mātou mō ngā whata o āpōpō," te tāpiri a Engler, "e 12,000 ngā kākahu e tukatukahia ana e mātou i ia rā."
Ko ngā kākahu kāore e taea te hoko ka whakanohoia ki roto i ngā pēke whakarara. He mīhini pēhi nui te Whakarara e huri ana i ngā kākahu katoa kāore e taea te hoko kia rite ki ngā poraka moenga. I titiro a Engler ki te taumaha o tētahi o ngā pēke: "E 1,118 pauna te taumaha o tēnei."
Kātahi ka hokona te pōre ki ētahi atu, ā, mā rātou pea e whakamahi mō ngā mea pēnei i te whakakī whāriki.
"Nō reira, ahakoa ngā mea kua pakaru, kua pakaru, he ora tonu," te kī a Engler ki ahau. "Ka āwhina mātou i ētahi mea kia tino angitu. E mihi ana mātou ki ia koha."
Kei te haere tonu te hanga o te whare, he rite ki te araiwhara. He kīhini, he whare karakia, ā, i kōrero mai a Engler ki ahau i mua he wāhi poiporo. Kātahi ka tangi te pere - kua tae ki te wā tina.
Ehara i te whare putunga noa iho, he whare anō hoki. Ko te mahi whare putunga he wāhanga o te kaupapa whakaora tarukino me te waipiro a te Ope Whakaora. E ono marama te noho, te mahi, me te whiwhi maimoatanga mō ngā kaiuru ki konei. I kōrero mai a Engler ki ahau e 112 ngā tāne e kai ana i ngā kai e toru i te rā.
He kore utu te kaupapa nei, ā, ko ngā moni whiwhi o te toa i tērā taha o te tiriti te pūtake o te pūtea. He mahi wā-katoa tā ia mema, he mahi tohutohu takitahi, ā-rōpū hoki, ā, ko te taha wairua te wāhanga nui o tēnā. E kī ana te Ope Whakaora ko 501c3, ā, e whakaahua ana i a ia anō ko "te wāhanga evangelical o te Hāhi Karaitiana Ao Whānui".
"Kāore koe e tino whakaaro ki ngā mea i tupu i mua," tana kī. "Ka taea e koe te titiro ki te heke mai me te mahi ki te whakatutuki i ō whāinga. Me whai Atua ahau i roto i tōku ao, me ako anō ahau ki te mahi, ā, nā tēnei wāhi ahau i ako."
Ka hikoi ahau i tērā taha o te tiriti ki te toa. Ko ngā mea i mua nō tētahi atu, inaianei kua rite ki aku. I tirotirohia e au ngā tai, ā, i kitea e au tētahi piano tawhito i te wāhanga tāonga taonga. Hei whakamutunga, i Cookware, i kitea e au tētahi pereti tino pai mō te $1.39. I whakatau ahau ki te hoko.
I pāngia tēnei pereti e ngā ringa maha i mua i te taenga ki roto i taku putea. Tērā pea he ope taua. Mā wai e mōhio, ki te kore ia e whatiia e au, tera pea ka hoki mai anō ia ki konei.
Wā tuku: Hurae-21-2023