Hawaiian style | Life-Built Poems

And now…we interrupt our regular post-building for an important public service announcement: As Hawaii trudges through the COVID-19 pandemic, PBS Hawaiʻi is reaching into our vast video archive to share pearls of wisdom about living with and getting past adversity. This campaign features brief but potent manaʻo online, on social media and on-air between regular programming. The non-profit, statewide television station, with support from the Kamehameha Schools, are building what they are calling “a community resilience program.” They are calling…

ISLAND-STYLE VIRUS FIGHTING

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We are walking through interesting times, we humans. The world is going through a time of rapid change on a scope that is a mind-boggle. It’s all coming at us at a furious pace as we try to get some kind of handle on it. When our only effective weapons of defense are washing our hands with soap and water, avoiding sneezing and coughing at each other, and stepping far away from one another as the complex constructs we’ve built…

IN GIVING WE TRUST

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I was listening to a soon-to-be ex-tenant of mine ranting on about how the past two years of her life spent on a little island in the Pacific that the P.C. (Politically Correct) crowd touted as the dream place to live had been most unsatisfactory. Her body held rigidly erect as she stood flat-footed on the ground, she had thrown down her bandana and was giving up. “Going home,” she said. “I’m going home.” And then there was a truly…

KAHIKINUI PRAYER

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Kahikinui is a land district that is approximately 22,860 acres between Kipahulu and Kaupo on the southeastern side of the island. It is bound to the north by Haleakala National Park, to the west by Ulupalakua Ranch and to the east by Haleakala Ranch. The Pacific Ocean laps along its southern boundary.

REVIEW: QUIET INFLUENCE

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PRODUCT: (book) QUIET INFLUENCE: The Introvert’s Guide to Making a Difference Author: Jennifer B. Kahnweiler, PhD Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers (2013) Hawaiians have a name for them, kanaka makua, the quiet people who live out their lives without fanfare and who do their best to support the efforts of the people around them.