From smooth sailing to rough seas.
In a matter of moments.
A sailors life for me(?)
You(?)
Whatever it is that the southerlies blew in...
...it makes me nauseous.
Someone pass the psychic Dramamine, please.
#luckywelivehawaii
Walter Ritte, a living example of persistence.
I believe we've met.
Several times before.
Pleasure to see you seeing me yet again.
Coming back from testifying on implementing Buffer Zones for Restricted Use Pesticides and my seat assignment is 2,4-D (a.k.a. Agent Orange).
Cute, Monsanto.
Real cute.
Protecting the future doesn't happen between 9 and 5.
En route to HNL to testify.
Earlier than one would wish to be in a flying sardine can.
With excellent company.
For such a small creature,
she packs quite the punch.
Taking care of the ninjas.
You mālama ʻāina
I mālama you.
Das how.
Like reading tea leaves at the bottom of a demitasse.
But reading coconut oil at the bottom of a glass jar
Homesteader twist.
Though treacherous,
I much prefer the leveling effects of natural island vog,
to the deleterious effects of manufactured L.A. smog.
Mermaid lost her tail.
Gained a pair of legs.
Jury's out on whether that's a fair deal.
...employing the element of surprise,
as per usual.
There will be times in life
when those things
you have taken
for granted
...as solid...
burst into flames.
It is during those times
that you see:
(1) Who has done the work
(2) Who is prepared
(3) Just how shit should...
(4) ...and shouldn't be done
It is this stunning woman's 70th lap around our great central star today.
Naturally she's spending the day and night, by herself, up on the wintery slopes of Haleakala.
It is an honor, an immense privilege, and an absolute lifetimes-fulfilling-joy to be one of her four children. I must have accrued karma from saving an entire nation of kittens in a past life to be able to select the mother and father I have today. This woman's strength, intellect (omg she's so smart), intuition (psychic is an understatement), compassion, selflessness, power, discipline, kindness, heart, ferocity, mysticism, non-judgment, and wisdom, wisdom, wisdom are, in my life, unparalleled. Those increasing moments when you begin to realize you are becoming your parents, those bring me so much satisfaction. Because if I can do right by them, by their hard work, by their support, by my mother's absolutely relentless caring and infinite capacity for knowledge, then I know I must be contributing to the world in a positive way.
Mom, Gigi, The Geeg, Ninja-mom, E.W.F., thank you for letting me experience this world as your daughter and as a sibling to the lovely children you have reared. You are a revered teacher to so many and I don't ever take for granted the great blessing it is to have you as my mother.
Vandana Shiva.
Drawing the connections.
Providing direction.
Stoking the fire.
Welcome to the "Gauntlet of Capitulating Eucalyptus"
a.k.a. my road home.
I've learned to grow fond of unexpectedly being unable to get back to my house.
Though 2:30am is not my favorite time to figure that out.
#countryliving is totally worth it.
When Goddesses from foreign lands grace your presence.
And important meetings take place.
Supporting your ninjas.
In the physical and ethereal.
I think you and I have some not even started, let alone unfinished, business to do, Molokai.
Been staring across Pailolo for 31 years.
Always curious.
There's something there.
Another piece.
Dare I say; key.
All in the right timing.
Soon, soon.
The story of colonialism is the same the world over.
Let's make the story of liberation just as ubiquitous.
Through sharing experience, strategy, and building bridges of solidarity.
Vandana Shiva learning how to ku'i kalo from Kamehameha School girls.
Bridge building in action.
