Shark Attacks

So scary....so many shark attacks.....so common these days.  I feel worrisome to take my keiki to what was once our playground - the ocean.  Did we upset the universe?  Did we disrupt the order of all things natural?  YES....we sure did!  WE....as in mankind.  WE...as in the caretakers of this Earth.  WE....as in you and me.  The numerous shark attacks are messages to notify us that something has gone wrong.  It is all a snowball effect.  Diverting the water from the streams, and removing it from it's natural flow.....has it's effects on everything.  Since the streams aren't allowed to meet the ocean's edge, there are less grounds for the limu to propagate.  Less limu, equals less food to nourish the fish population.  Less fish, equals hungry sharks wandering the ocean in search for a meal. I would always comfort a worried family member by saying, "the ocean is SO big, the chances of us being in the same exact spot as a shark is rare".  But now, if a shark has to cover wider grounds to come across a meal, our chances of being in the same spot are much greater.  WE may not be in control of the natural order of things, and we may not agree to the injustices being practiced upon our 'aina......but WE are still responsible for contributing to making a difference.

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  • I believe the sharks are attacking because certain businesses in the tourism industry.If you think about if these businesses have been feeding the mano, then the mano is expecting the people to feed them. Yes the tourist are here to have a memories of the exciting things they did here in Hawaii and go home. The businesses that are promoting feeding the mano is ONLY thinking about the mighty dollar and not about the ramifications it will bring.  Our ancestors and some of our people today perpetuates traditions relating to mano as an aumakua, and established a relationship with mano as their aumakua. Yes they would feed the mano but for a certain reason, mainly as a hookupu. The mano is one of our family aumakua. My dad and brothers swam with the sharks and developed their relationship with mano. Now days it's different. A brother of mind one day told me, sis, sharks are like dogs. If you show fear, they will bite. Well, if you show a dog you are afraid and run, it will chase and bite in their excitement of the chase. And, yes it is scary now days going out there. Pray to the ancestors for protection and talk to the aumakua before entering. Remain pono as one with all in the ocean as we were taught and the aumakua will know and feel your mana.   

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