Thoughts on the meaning of Kapu.
Kapu (Set Apart)
The King and The Navigator
Hokulea's arrival in NYC is a source of Hawaiian pride and reminded me another time in my life when I felt good to be a Hawaiian.
Ipu (Gourd/Percussion Instrument)
Waiting on a subway platform was part of my daily commute for almost 10 years. Expressing down to 14th Street from Times Square to pick up the local to Canal and Varick. Waiting on the platform, listening to the number 2 wiz by on its way to Brooklyn. The sound of train connecting with track. A…
Ekolu Makou (We Three)
When my maternal grandparents left Wahiawa, Oahu in 1959 to come and live with their eldest daughter's family in Maryland, our house became a multi-generational home. As I think back on the first home we shared, I can't for the life of me figure out how we all fit into that little split-level: Mom, Dad, me and two brothers…
