Uluponui: Sometimes we gotta cut down the invasive trees in our lives and turn them into tools of change and re-kanak(a)-tion. (Check out Kaleo's @uluponui on instagram for the video.)
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UluponuI: In 9 months, one of these small loʻi going be more than enough for the poi that will be powering the women and men of Kailua Canoe Club during the Na Wahine O Ke Kai and Molokai Hoe races. We planted 2 cause thats how. Mahalo president @kaaleleo for having the first board meeting of the season at the piko of Kailua. Mahalo hoi e anake Suzi no nā kiʻi nani.  Photo: Kaleo Wong Hikaʻalani peeps at work on two fronts: acommunity workday at Ulupōnui with folks from the Hawaiʻi Peopleʻs Fund. AND a planting day at the newly dedicated pā ʻilina at Waiʻauia with members of Hālau Mōhala ʻIlimaʻs Apiki and Lanihuli classes.  Photo: Kaleo Wong  Photo: Kīhei de Silva Uluponui: Some of today's action with Dickinson College. 22pp (person power) to huki this pōhaku out of our new loʻi site. (For a look at Kaleo's video, click on over to his instagram account @ uluponui.)  Photo: Kaleo Wong For some of our iwi kūpuna, it has been twenty years of waiting in boxes and bags on shelves of "temporary" curation units. For all, it has been ten years of our "weʻll find a place" promises and their mostly quiet patience. At last, hiki iā lākou nā iwi kūpuna ke hoʻi i ka moe kau a hoʻoilo. At last they can return to uninterrupted sleep – "the sleep of summer and winter." The Waiʻauia preserve has taken them in, and we ʻōiwi of Kailua will mālama these kūpuna until our last aloha ʻāina. (KdS)  Photo: Nick Tomasello @nicasello |
