It's pouring at Ulupō and Kumu Lilinoe Sterling's 6th graders from the newly renamed/reclaimed Ka‘ōhao School are dancing their hearts out to an old mele made new: "Kiʻekiʻe i luna ke ku o Ahiki." There can be no more fitting a conclusion to the May Day celebration of last week than this turn-the-hands down reconnection to the ever edible mud of our ʻāina. Such is the genius of Noenoeuakea and her co-conspirator Kaleomanuiwa. Wahi a Kaleo: "Mahalo iā ʻoe e @noenoeuakea for bringing your haumana down to huli ka lima i lalo and work with us on the land and honoring the wahipana of Kailua with your mele and hula. Straight out of the loi and into hula."
– Kīhei de Silva
– Kīhei de Silva
Photo: Kalro Wong