How The US Has Systematically Destroyed Hawaiian Culture For 240 Years

Many associate Aloha shirts, hula dancing, and surfing with Hawaiian culture. Beloved by many around the globe, the paradisiacal islands exude romance and relaxation. However, the story of how America acquired Hawaii is much less pristine than the sparkling oceans and beaches on postcards and travel brochures. Struggle and oppression fill Hawaii’s history, as the United States forced the islands into becoming US territory. Much like the Native American Trail of Tears, the story of how Hawaii became a state brims with hostile takeovers, as well as displaced and mistreated Native inhabitants.   […]

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Hau’ōli lā Pō’alūa – Mele Kalikimaka ‘oukou

Aloha kākahiāka kākou … hau’ōli lā Pō’alūa a me Mele Kalikimaka kākou. Hoihoi keīa nāni lā. Ōla Aloha. Ē Aloha. Hānu Aloha e Ōla Pōnō. A hui hou a me mālāma pōnō kākou.

Good morning, everyone … Happy Tuesday and Merry Christmas!  Enjoy this beautiful day.  Live aloha. Be Aloha. Breathe aloha and Live Righteously.  Take care of yourself until the next time we meet.

A Personal Declaration of Self-Responsibility

I will not renounce your inner voice that expects me to mobilize my being at your will and express with love and devotion your words being an instrument of your magnificent strength that you know how to have.

I will not renounce this divine mandate that explored every moment of my life walking with firm steps keeping very clear what is my mission in this life.

I will not renounce this internal heat that mobilizes my whole being expanding your light your love your heat sacred fire illuminating my temple refuge of your love! shelter of your peace!

I will not give up being part of this spiritual evolution where there is no religion because we are all “One” to recognize that my only religion is love and it is this love that raises me to follow my destiny towards the awakening of consciousness of love crossing natural limits and they do not exist obstacles that can stop this walk because my body has already experienced different aberrations of so many past lives that in this there is no longer any pain that can make this perpetual dance renounce activating my inner seals being one with the supreme whole uniting my being my love and the divine strength of God! father! mother! here in this blessed time is the moment to wake up to its crystalline light.

I will not renounce your blessed light that you illuminate when I am in darkness and reject all negative activity in my whole being and I know that nothing and nobody can stop my awakening together my sisters and brothers who are in this same walk and awaken of light peace and love in all the ancestral mother earth Gaia.

I will not renounce this love that implores your genuine awakening of Spiritual “conscience and accept that you are an important being for me and for the world because within you is the great force that radiates the love of our blessed inner “Christ” is the blessed lamp that will illuminate this world if you change your way of thinking acting as our inner Christ and being part of this great “Spiritual “Supreme movement in all the world .

I will never renounce my inner voice and this sacred force sacred flame marked by fire in my heart immaculate flame of our inner “Christ “that its fire never be extinguished and that fire is the light that illuminates our human temple and that of all humanity so be ! wherever you are, always remember, please, I love you, bless you! and honor! Well in the same way that he loves you! Bless! and honor! Our father! “Cosmic” mother in love and service forever! So be it! 

Global Mindfulness || Free showers for rough sleepers could save lives and end the stigma around homelessness 

There’s such a stigma surrounding rough sleepers in the UK and we have a responsibility to work out why and how we can change that. (Picture: Sarah Lamptey)

The idea struck me while I was volunteering at a winter shelter, listening to a man who had experienced homelessness in different parts of Europe.

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Hau’ōli lā Pō’akōlu

Maikā’i kākahiāka i nā mea a pau ʻia ōukou maikāʻi poe Ōhana a me Hoaloha. Kona kupanaha Pō’akōlu. E aloha ōukou makemake e ʻike i loko o ke ʻao nei! I ka pomaikā’i ʻo kā lā. Ō kā maluhia nō me ‘oe.

Good morning, beautiful family and friends! It’s wonderful Wednesday. Be the aloha you wish to see in the world! Have a blessed day. Peace be with you.

Current Events || Ancestral lands returned to the rapa nui people after 129 years of Chilean control – Beyond the moai

History was made today when the ancestral lands of Easter Island were returned to the native people of this remote South Pacific island. Up until the end of the 19th century, the inhabitants of Rapa Nui (also known as Easter Island) used to live all over the island, where the mighty moai statues are that […]

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Local News || Nearly 50 years of hot malasadas: Tex Drive In recognized in Hawaii Restaurant Association Hall of Fame – West Hawaii Today

HONOKAA — Hundreds of people sink their teeth into malasadas — the hole-free, pillowy Portuguese doughnuts — each day at Tex Drive In. The well-known pit stop on Mamalahoa Highway in Honokaa has been serving their square-shaped confections for almost 50 years.   […]

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