Monthly Archives: May 2022

Former Arizona GOP U.S. Sen. Jeff Flake in his retirement farewell intoned — “We weren’t made great as a Country by indulging in or even exalting our worst impulses, turning against ourselves, glorifying in the things that divide us, & … Continue reading →

Shame is internal — but a “policing”   tool from outside society (e.g. Asian Ethos) to enforce conformity. Guilt is internal & self-enforced (e.g. Western Hemisphere Ethos). Stigma is a mark we wear on the outside. Shame & stigma (& guilt … Continue reading →

Harvey Tajiri brought actual Home Rule to every County Treasury by Con-Con Amdt. in 1978 in authorizing each County to set its own property tax rates & other provisos (land & improvements distinctions) esp. as effective tools to mold & … Continue reading →

This morning’s Trib Suppl. upcoming Kamehameha Day celebration renews the age-old rivalry b/n civilian vs. military authority. Oldest son Kiwala’o became civilian or political heir to his dad Kalani’opu’u, while lower ranking nephew Kamehameha became military heir via the war … Continue reading →

Wm. Reed immigrated from Ireland & married a Haw’n woman, Kekaha, from Waiakea-kai, who died of illness w/out bearing children. Reed then married young missionary widow Shipman, whose husband died of the flu in Waiohinu. Reed became hanai dad to … Continue reading →

Devout Christian publisher Yasutaro Keiho Soga 1873-1957 — interned w/Nobuji Tokushiro.

O’hele or where travel occurs was the ancient name for Isles Landing (& RR Wharf & 800 ft. long pier 1900-1912). Kalau o kukui or ornamenting the kukui was the ancient name for Wm. H. Reed’s landing 1860-1877 Chilean tsunami … Continue reading →

Punti Lee Chau’s Kwong See Wo merchant house (store) “Block” took up all of monkey lane (nka Nawahi lane astride the former Masa’s Shell service station) (Beckley lane behind Jimmy Arakaki’s former Dodo Mortuary life plan office on Ponahawai St. … Continue reading →

This March was the 11th annual memorial to honor the 20K victims of the 11 March 2011 Tohoku NE Honshu Island Japan 60 ft. high tsunami. The magnitude of the earthquake, though the strongest in Japan since the Richter scale … Continue reading →

Deacon, you’re correct that Mona Martin’s birth family is from ‘Opihikao & Kalapana. I as a   sheep — SIGNS & WONDERS ARE   MIND-BLOWING  . ONLY VISIONERS LIKE YOU HAVE THESE QUALITIES. But no, Church on a Sure Foundation doesn’t manufacture … Continue reading →