sigilsnz.com

NZ — short of course for New Zealand, an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, made up of the North Island, South Island, Stewart Island (south of the South Island), and over 700 smaller islands, with more complicated names, like Auckland Island, about 465 km south of the South Island and about as far from Auckland as you can get.

Zealandia, mostly underwater, is the world’s smallest continent and was once part of the ancient supercontinent Gondwana. It has “Gondwana” about as far as it can go too.

A sigil is a tiny picture or symbol that can hold a big idea, like a secret sign or a touch of magic hidden in a doodle — although animation doodles can be about as tricky as magic gets.

A “kindness stone” is a sigil.

Or, a sigil might just be an ever-ravenous bird ready to swoop in and steal your fish and chips at the beach!

And bears and pangolins – don’t believe everything you see. Although, truth cannot be fiction, fiction can be truer. That is part of what the sister website – www.hilltopnz.com – is about : “Helping young people distinguish between their inner perceptions and outer realities” – or sifting the fibs from the facts.

in Loving Memory of PETER JAMES STENHOUSE