How we behave defines who we are

Kia Ora it's Maori Language week, even though Te Reo Maori is an official language of New Zealand.
There was a time when it was thought the language would die, but with new statistics just released, the language is flourishing.
Each tribal district has its own dialect and in this region and in Whanganui, the mita (dialect) is defined by the dropping of the h in the spoken word.
This has caused issues with the spelling of Whanganui, and for the iwi Te Atihaunui a Paparangi, it is tied to their unique cultural identity, which their mita helps to preserve.
Te Wiki o Te Reo Maori Maori language week is about tourism this year.
The catchphrase Kia Ora and other simple phrases were encouraged to get people to use the language every day.
As you will read in his column, Peter Mischefski of Central Taranaki Tourism has climbed aboard the tourism waka.
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Increasingly, the weather worldwide is causing havoc.
In Britain, they're experiencing once in 60-year floods, and parts of China is under water.
Meanwhile a NASA astronaut was seen on television throwing rubbish into outer space. NASA said it could not return the rubbish to earth, so an ammonia tank the size of a fridge and another item, were cast adrift.
In this day when we are concerned about our impact on the planet, NASA took one giant heave for mankind, and threw its responsibility into outer space.
Robert Kennedy Jnr's speech at a Live Earth concert in New Jersey echoed what a lot of parents must think. As a parent and a hopeful grandparent sometime in the future, I share his message.
"I want you to remember this; we are not protecting the environment for the sake of the fishes and the birds; we are protecting it because nature is the infrastructure of our communities. And if we want to meet our obligation as a generation, as a civilisation, as a nation, which is to create communities for our children that provide them with the same opportunities for dignity, and enrichment, and good health, and prosperity, and stability as the communities that our parents gave us, we've got to start by protecting our environmental infrastructure.
The air we breathe, the water we drink, the wildlife, the public lands, the things that connect us to our past, to our history that provide context to our communities, and that are the source, ultimately, of our values and our virtues and our character as a people and the future of our children."