“I think about how Nāwahī, the editor of Ke Aloha Aina, defined aloha 'āina as a constant magnetic pull toward's one place that cannot be weakened or dettered. I think about Puna, being pulled, pulled, pulled home, always and every day.”
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“When we say aloha 'āina is a significant part of a Kanaka Maoli worldview, we are therefore saying that our aloha for ''āina is so intimate that we aspire to be 'āina”
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“They make love that plants lehua, and they share pleasures that tease breaking waves out of a calm bay. To ho'āikāne in our mo'olelo is to enact all the possibilities of pleasure between our bodies and to learn from how 'āina grounds the pleasure to be shared and treasured between us.”
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“When bound and accountable to another, we are therefore also bound and accountable to each other's intimacies and accountabilities. Such relationships teach us that reciprocity and accountability matter and that intimacy is many bodied and overflowing. This is the ea of pilina.”
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“I feel a thick cord. It connects my spirits to a memory that I have tried to forget. I have pretended it wasn't there, and I drank or even smoked my way around it when I was younger. Then I buried the memory under accomplishment. My story is stalled here, as if the cord has choked off the rest of the story and I cannot move forward. As the story maker, I have to find a way. First, I need to speak and remember what I do not want to remember. Even now, years later, when my mother is gone, even the monster is gone, I have come to understand they do not want the haunting either. They want to move on.”
― Poet Warrior
― Poet Warrior
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