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Reflections...

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Reflecting Again... Huge Decisions... Major Changes... Precarious Paths... Life Isn't a Dress Rehearsal... It is a Sold-Out Show... Bring on the Main Event...

Mai Poina...

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I watched this visiting Mother, Father and Daughter... Savoring a Moment in Time... Unparalleled Beauty and Divine Power... Above Waik ī k ī ... As I myself Envisioned... Kamehameha and his canoe fleet of Wa'a Peleleu... Storming over the Horizon... Landing right Here... In 1795... Uniting an Island Kingdom... In Blood and Gunpowder... In Ripping Shark's Teeth... Brave men and women... Many on their last Day of Life... Embracing in Tearful Goodbyes... Let us Never Forget... Such Sacrifice...

Seeing...

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I Watched the Sun... Set Today... Remembering You... To Remember Me...

Rock...

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Find Your Spiritual Stone... The Living Stone... The Rejected Stone... His Cornerstone... Within...

Grateful...

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Today was an Intense and Reflective Day. I had conversations on Life and Death. Faith and God. Our Men in the Prisons. Culture. Pueo as 'aumakua and akua. Militarization and the bombing of Pohakuloa. I spoke to some of my stones. I spoke about Mauna 'Ala and our most Sacred of the Sacred. I spoke to a Beloved Friend who just lost his Life-Partner. I spoke to a Beloved Kupuna who just lost his leg to Diabetic Neuropathy. I spoke to another Beloved Friend about the events of my last seven years to catch up. It Truly made me Reflect on what I had been through. I lost my own Beautiful Mother in 2010.  In 2011, my Beautiful sister Nalani was diagnosed with Cancer.  In 2012, I went through my own ordeal at Queen's on Life-Support, and in a coma with heart, kidneys and fluid-filled lungs failing, an abdominal cavity liquid antibiotic resistant infection and a MRSA infection on my arm eating my skin at my IV entry-point, with my sister Nalani caring for me day-and-

Twilight...

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I Humbly Asked God... To Paint Twilight... To Show such Beauty... As if I had Gazed Upon... You...

Hula...

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Mana...

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Maka...

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Timeless...

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Enraptured...

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I Kissed Eternity... In Her Loneliness... And She Radiated... Like a Thousand Suns... Igniting My Wanton Heart...

La'a...

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Sacred 'Awa at Waiawa...

Huki at Waiawa...

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Ha'a at Hālawa...

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Nappy...

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Pretty Boy...

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Mysterious You...

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Together...

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Together... In Love and Light... With Humility and Gratitude... There is No Challenge... Or Obstacle... We Shall Not... Overcome...

Hula...

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Lessons...

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Let Us not Hold... Each Other in Judgment... For the Suffering Lessons... Of Our Souls... Be a Loving Place... Of Refuge... For All...

Pili...

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Pilialoha...

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A Gentle Healing Love...

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Hula,,,

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Pilialoha...

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Hula...

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Partake....

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Partake of... The Sacred...

'Ohana Hālawa....

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'Ohana Waiawa...

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Words...

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Never Underestimate... The Power of Words... Of Kindness... Of Believing in Goodness... Expressing Appreciation... And Love...

Redemption...

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Everyone Possesses the Gifts... Of Redemption... Humility... And Forgiveness... From Those you have Hurt... And From Yourself... To Begin Anew... While There is Still Time...

'Ālana at Hālawa...

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Pīkai at Hālawa...

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Oli at Hālawa...

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Release at Hālawa...

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Hālawa...

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Today was a Powerful and Healing Day at H ā lawa Correctional Facility for the ceremonial observances of the Closing of the Makahiki Season...

Pīkai...

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Mana...

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Healing...

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Today was a Powerful Day at Waiawa Correctional Facility for the closing of Makahiki...

Hula...

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Hulō! Hulō!

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Hoa Aloha...

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Love...

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Beautiful 'Ohana...

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Pilialoha...

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The Echo of Our Song...

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Grand Finale...

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Ho'owahine...

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To grow into Womanhood...

Mana...

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