For some, engagement is about getting a ring on the finger. Here, it is about pulling the finger out and getting on with it. Losing distractions and being genuinely interested. We are embodying the values of TE AO KAPURANGI. How would she have engaged to achieve?
Te Ao-kapurangi returned, and told Nga Puhi that if she was to save her kinsfolk, she would need to be present at the battle. This was agreed to, but Hongi Hika decreed that Nga Puhi would spare only those who passed between Te Ao-kapurangi's thighs. Next day the attack was launched at Mokoia. As soon as she had landed on the island she hurried to the house, Tama-te-kapua, and stood on the roof astride the ridgepole, calling for her people to save themselves. They crammed the house, and Nga Puhi allowed them to enter it and respected it as a place of refuge. This is the origin of the saying, well known to Te Arawa and used when many crowd together in a house: 'Ano ko te whare whawhao a Te Ao-kapurangi' (How like the crowded house of Te Ao-kapurangi). From http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/1t25/te-ao-kapurangi
She switched on, and found a clever way to solve her problems. She switched on and didn't take the road that others had cut out for her. She used her intelligence and her creativity. She was inspired and switched on.
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