Mahalo Keaumoku for putting this beautiful day together. My grandson and I enjoyed the day, and you know we both needed to revere her presence. I did not realize how much this 'ritual' for a sense of place at the mound my spirit was longing for. Thanks to all the Na Kupuna for saying their prayers, sharing their time and ounces of energy with us--how bless we were today. I was a bit nervous to see the children climbing, crawling under the table and playing ring rosey around our Na Kupuna, but it seems to me that's exactly what Liliu would want to have happened on the day she left to go home to be with our ancestors. Children and young families are so important.
The food was exceptionally tasty, we had such great feelings of joy in remembering our Queen Liliu. Listening to people share their man'o on things that they feel so passionate about. Preserving our aina, singing, dancing all of these things are so beautiful. I had just one cup of awa in her honor.
I picked up Tane and we had a long talk about the children at Kamile Elementary and how devastating it is and how our children will be on suicide watch when Glenn Kila and Clarence Delude leave on December 15, 2010. It is such a shock for me and many people in the Waianae community and that we are in such disbelief. Ho'okako'o Corporation are distroying the essence of distitute children and their education--one that our Queen Lilu was adamantly concern with in Hawaii.
The reasons we took time out to be at the Ahu and the mound was to celebrate the life of Queen Liliu and children, young mothers and young fathers. DLNR prefer guns, and abuse of power and are always behaving disrespectful and unprofessional at the mound. Good Grief will they ever learn.
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We had a nice day just sharing and lots of children doing what children do and that is to play. It was a perfect day with lot's of good feelings, just as what our Na Kupuna did for us when we were little children. This was the foundation of Na Kanaka families. Lot's of singing the Queens songs, the regrets were shared about 'keeping one's mouth shut, and young opio's sharing their passion about the Hawaiian Kingdom and it's aina.
What does your sister whose name is Noelani (what family doesn't have a child name Noelani) or Ph.D got to do with Nov 11, 2010.
Noelani is a bimbo for showing up after a long day of celebration an employee of the DLNR--five minutes before we all were entering our cars and stated yelling at us, that we were being 'disrespectful!' Pono filmed the entire day--check it out! Was anything disrespectful by your standards. If so I would like to hear your opinion about disrespectful to the Queen. Did you know that was the day that she died? I'm curious I don't think this is to be true, but was this a day of Veterens celebration for you? So true, that you lack the sensitivity to the how and what we were doing at the ahu! A long view of things is okay, but what point of view are you coming from?
Be honest, I can handle that--but not a cheap shot from afar and on Nov 11,2010.
By the way I like the idea that you are planting in pots. We have to plant in Hawaii and on the aina in order to sustain ourselves here in Hawaii. Many people are laying down on the side of road giving up. They use to plant and the authorities from DLNR whom Noelani the bimbo works for pulled the plantings out. And she certainly do not need anything more than a high school diploma to work for the DLNR--she's a bimbo.
As I said, if you want to claim power to the corner where the ahu exist--show up on some of her memorable days.
I can maybe stay home and send butterfly kisses to you while the bully heat is coming down.
I'm a bit disturbed because I just got back from working at Kamaile Academy and tomorrow is another meeting with the corporate Ho'okako'o the manufacturers of 4140's.
Who is this little up-start Noelani kid? It appears she was being disrespectful and clueless to our history there. The group gathered TRADITIONALLY FOR MANY YEARS from 11:00am and cleaned up and left at 3:00PM. Evidently, she came at the end of the gathering. If she had a gripe; she should have come when the activity began and questioned our presence at that time.
This is all the more reason why the U.S.A. must de-occupy our country and follow the guidelines set within the law of occupation.
Tane
Earlier in the day, we watched BrainPOP.com and went through their whole Bully Lesson. All children in the DOE system are having some form of 'Bullying' lesson in their Health Benchmark 5.5.1 or 5.5.3. So my grandson went through the whole lesson early in the morning. He answered the questions to the best of his knowledge and got 6 out of 10 correct. He is only five years old. So, when we got home he wanted to show Uncle Pono the Lesson on the computer and make a video. I did not prompt him he did this all on his own. He knows that going on this events--it is very serious business with uncle Pono. Documenting the events and sharing what we do is very important and my grandson is realizing this at five years old. I know 'Liliu' was with us, for I have no other explanation for what had happened between Uncle Pono and Joshua. Uncle Pono said, that next time they will both do a PSA together. He also watched how to creat a video on BrianPOP. com and he wants to be like Uncle Pono. He knows story board and sequencing, he knows he has to discuss his ideas with others and then cut it into pieces on the Flash program. Unbelieveable isn't it!