Beneath this Hawaiian flag, is a beach-front reliquary for ancestral bones, "Iwi," disturbed in the construction of modern Waikiki. The bones were hidden in days of old, so their "Mana" would bless the land and the descendants. Forensic pathologists can tell from bone composition, where someone lived their life. In a very real sense, the place we live becomes mineral-ized into our very bones. Additionally, the Hawaiians believe that one's spiritual state and actions taken also "make ones bones." Weapons or ritual implements made from Pono (righteous) Iwi hold energy and power to their purpose. That is why the bones of great chiefs were hidden away. Kamehameha the Great's burial place is unknown, though suspected to be in some coastal cave on the Big Island, Hawaii. A Descendant of the royal retainer trusted to hide those bones is today the care-taker of the Royal Mausoleum containing the bones of subsequent Hawaiian Majesties. Kamehameha continues to influence our islands through the Mana of his hidden Iwi, as do our other Kupuna Iwi (ancestral bones) . . . .
"Charm is a way of getting the answer "yes" without asking a clear question."- Camus
"We are all stupid, just on different subjects."- Twain
"I am not a glutton. I'm an explorer of food."
- Erma Bombeck
"Fast food" lunch at Shirokiya
Mochiko (mochi-rice-flour, fried) chicken
& Ebi (shrimp) shumai (dumplings)
. Ono, Des!
. Ono, Des! Coke grows on palm trees!
Why are these palms bent?
"through the windshield"
"If you can recognize illusion as illusion, it dissolves. The recognition . . .is also its ending. Its survival depends on your mistaking it for reality. In the seeing of who you are NOT (the normal illusion) the reality of who you ARE emerges by itself."
- Eckhart Tolle A L O H A ! Cloudia
