I welcomed Matariki with a personal, introspective walk at sunrise with Silo Theatre’s *Mauri Tau* experience playing in my ears. It was -1 as I walked over the dunes to the beach and a spectacular sunrise. I watched the sky and the stars and the waves. I laughed. I cried. I picked up a feather. Saw an eel-like scrawl of seaweed. A clear night sky and a calm dawn. What a wonderful way to mark the end of one year and the start of a new year. Mānawatia o Matariki!