Aloha e nā hoa Pilimai,
This past Saturday was a great first lā kalo. Being able to go into the loʻi to huki the kalo that we cooked, cleaned, then kuʻi has sadly become a rare practice. If we think about people’s relationship with Hāloa these days, it mostly consists of eating poi out of a plastic bag or container bought in the store, or going to work in a loʻi but not taking home kalo. Not us, e nā hoa Pilimai. We took him from mud to mouth.
Kamuela [Bannister] provided us a good example on where we want to get to with our kuʻi skills, but no worry if we never look like that. For many of us this was our first time. It would have been like if Chad showed us how to play Hawaiian music then handed us the guitar and said, ok your turn 😳. It is a process and everytime we practice we will learn new things and get more comfortable.
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Ke Aloha,
Kaleo
(Photos: Kīhei de Silva. "Ulupō Nui," c. Kīhei de Silva and Zachary Lum, 2017. )
This past Saturday was a great first lā kalo. Being able to go into the loʻi to huki the kalo that we cooked, cleaned, then kuʻi has sadly become a rare practice. If we think about people’s relationship with Hāloa these days, it mostly consists of eating poi out of a plastic bag or container bought in the store, or going to work in a loʻi but not taking home kalo. Not us, e nā hoa Pilimai. We took him from mud to mouth.
Kamuela [Bannister] provided us a good example on where we want to get to with our kuʻi skills, but no worry if we never look like that. For many of us this was our first time. It would have been like if Chad showed us how to play Hawaiian music then handed us the guitar and said, ok your turn 😳. It is a process and everytime we practice we will learn new things and get more comfortable.
...
Ke Aloha,
Kaleo
(Photos: Kīhei de Silva. "Ulupō Nui," c. Kīhei de Silva and Zachary Lum, 2017. )