Kahului — It is ten years ago to the day. Once, during the days of her last decline, when she was still conscious, she took my hand and let me touch the mass on her abdomen. It’s like that rock there… hard, severe, and I imagined it had its malignant tentacles firmly grasping her liver, her lung, her heart—that last one yes a thing of flesh, molecule, atom, but undefeated to the end. Everywhere I look now...
Kahului — Balanced between this, and that… between here, and there. On certain days I am that rock—upon which are anchored two teenagers, a grandmother, a schizophrenic aunty, and all the other multifarious ...
Kahului — I am of Portuguese, Hawaiian, Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, and Korean descent. My nationality is American, although I consider myself a Hawaiian National. I was raised in Makawao as a child, but also...
Kahului — I am adrift. Unmoored from a routine that defined my very skin and bones lo these past 13 years, I am suddenly unsure how to venture from one day to the next. Yes, there is work to be done, responsi...
Aloha,I am a child of God and was born on July 10, 1979 in Wailuku, Maui at Maui Memorial Hospital.
Catching the stillness before the storm at the perfect place and time to do so...
once upon a time, with gills
It was ten years ago...
This red earth, at dusk...
The word...
At the Whole Foods parking lot, sunrise, caneburning smoke; I looked down and saw, yes, Sanna, adularescence. :-)
Stopped by the airport runway at dusk ... Sanna's word is in there somewhere. ;-)
Haleakala in darkening blue; or, who would be so crazy as to leave this place? Oh... the young.
Hmm... I believe that's an adularescence right there, in the middle of that cloud bank. :-)
In the sky above Kahului town tonight, an aethereal falcon in flight...
Almost 6 p.m. on this late Saturday afternoon. The sky above Wailuku is really that contrasty.
A fleet of Hawaaian Canoe Club's wa'a parked in the shade.
By the Pu'unene Sugar Mill. The air startlingly clear, after the rains of the past week.
After this early morning's downpour—clearing skies, dappling sunshine.
Kanaha glass. On the way in to work this morning. Wouldn't you stop, too? :-)
Canoe properly bound with rope. In back, JV Boys race begins.
Kekaulike... Imua! Kulani's JV 1 Girls wraps up a dominant season with a win in the finale. YES!
It's a beautiful morning for a final regatta this MIL canoe paddling season, at Kahului Harbor.
The pleasure of down, linen, and time.
Looking up at Wailuku Heights from several miles away, at Mokulele and Hansen.
At the Kanaha Pond bird sanctuary...
Dusk now. Taking the wa'a (canoes) to their berthing spots ashore.
Caught the tail end of Kulani's canoe paddling practice with King Kekaulike HS JV, at Kahului Harbor.
8:45 a.m., along Hansen Road, towards the Pu'unene Sugar Mill, a throwback to yesteryear.
Stopping along a backroads verge, near the Kahului airport. Scene/seen through slightly smudged windshield.
Rock at Kanaha Pond, facing northeast, half past eight this morning...
Kanaha Pond this morning: ochre and aquamarine.
Smokestacks in the distance; approaching Pu'unene Sugar Mill.
Tropical fruit stand, farmer's market day at Ka'ahumanu Mall's main concourse...
Window-sign painter's spattered truck, by MacNet in downtown Kahului...
At the Sugar Museum parking lot, in front of the Pu'unene Sugar Mill.
Usually you can see Haleakala Volcano in the distance. Not today, yet again...