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My ThoughtsAugust 13, 2006

I just returned from Moloka'i a few weeks ago, and I really enjoyed being back home.

Seeing family and friends. Going to the beach and rejuvenating be soul. Go to the Mountains to become one will the 'aina.

Know that I'm back here in Arizona, it good. My mind and soul is balance. My thoughts are clear and my heart is to share more of the Aloha Spirit.

I'm one with myself. Speaking with my dad and getting his approval in the way I live my life, really meant alot to me. We talk alot while I was home and how I try to instill the Hawaiian Culture and Life Style in to my ohana and to the club members and to those that I meet.

I shared with him that I try to live my life like my ancestor did before the foreinger came to Hawaii. I don't mean exacly like my ancestors, but the way they thought. Most of thier thinking was done with their heart. Not with their head.

What I mean by that is, they used their heart to know if what their where doing was right or wrong. They used their heads for figuring out how to build and make things. How to build a wa'a (canoe) or how to catch I'a (fish).

But they used their heart to know if what they where doing was pono(right). If they did something to someone. They knew if is was pono or not. Because the heart will let you know if what you did was pono. By this I mean if you did wrong to someone, then you would feel guilty or hurt or ashamed. But if you did pono (right) to someone, then you would feel hau'oli (happy), ha'aheo (proud) or maika'i (good). And thats how I live my life, through my heart.

And if more people lived their life that way the world would be a better place.

Thats what all the Hawaiian Groups back home in Hawaii and here in the Mainland really need to do. Lead with your heart and not your head. And learn to forgive. If someone do you wrong, don't get upset with that person and feel that you need to get back at him or her. Just take a step back, take a deeeep breath and ask akua (god) to forgive that person that did you wrong, and ask god to bless that person(s). And the next time you see that person(s), smile, wave, shake their hand or just say Aloha no! Pehea 'oe? And forgive that person(s), because we not perfect.

Lets start thinking and leading with our hearts. If we do this, then we will be "Spreading A Little Bit Of Aloha", throughout the world and then and only then will we be making a difference.

Malama pono, A hui hou, Aloha kakou!

My Thougths
May 30, 2006:

I've been doing some heavy thinking. Thinking about what has been going on with alot of things.

Seems that a good friend has left us to seek other opportunities. And alot of people stay huhu with that person. They make like he was suppose to stay here for the rest of their lives. That because this person left everything went kapakahi.

People talk about what this person did and didn't do. And how this person went hurt someone or whatevas.

For me I wish everything went workout, but things happen for a reason. This person never hurt me or my ohana in anyway. Some people got to carried away with some things, and made it their kuliana. But it wasn't their kuliana. They tried to be niele with the other persons life. But they should have minded their own kuliana. Instead they was trying for tell that person how for do things, when they had no right to.

There shouldn't be any more negative talk about this person. People say they don't judge, but yet they continue to whine and make uncalled for comments. To my people that do this has no life of their own. To all those people I say "GET A LIFE"!!!

For those of you that did get hurt, I'm sorry that it happened to you. But lets all move on.

For me I just wish everyone would stop talking about what happened and concentrate on the present time and coming events.

Malama pono  my hoaaloha, may life bless you in all you do.

Malama pono, A hui hou, Aloha no

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Feb 2006: Being Hawaiian isn't about how much koko (blood) quantum you have, it's about how you feel in your pu`uwai (heart), and the way you hali`a aloha (think with affection).

We have be Westernized so much that a lot of us Hawaiians are confuse with who we are. Some of us know that we are Hawaiian, but don't know what it is to be Hawaiian.

Its sad when we (Hawaiians) have to move from the place we love and move to a place we feel out of place. At that point we finally reallize that we took our culture for granted, and wish that we had learned more about our culture. We even wish that we maybe learned the hula, the language or even how to use the native plants for health and healing.

But we must say "MAHALO", to those that don't just think about, I should have learn about my culture, but have done something, like starting a Halau, Hawaiian Club or evern an Outrigger Canoe Club.

So "MAHALO NUI LOA" to all those that keep teaching the Hawaiian Culture away from Hawaii. Without these Kanaka's we would still be confused and lost.