Comfort Spiral: Returning Surely

A L O H A

From

Honolulu

Evening brings love,

Night brings rest,

Stars lean softly

Against the west.

Dreams unfold

On quiet air—

Morning waits

With hope to spare.

Cloudia Charters

Lady Quail

The California quail,

Callipepla californica.

Notice the forward-curving

black plume, tasteful

patterned buff (female)

and gray-blue body

(males, below)

Quiet feathers, wild spirit.

By Pixie

Rise gently, wander freely,

Little quail

Hidden in the grass.

Where brush is thick,

The quail is clever.

Wise in shadows, seeds,

And sudden flight.

Pixie

Ahupua`a are
 the traditional ancient 
land divisions of 
our Hawaiian isles.
This sign represents the 
altar of stones (Ahu) marking the 
historic boundary. Sacrifice of pig
(Pua`a) were placed
atop the pile.

Each Ahupua`a district
was like a slice of pie:
Thin inland atop the mountain,
broadening out like a pie slice
to encompass a stretch of coast.
The people of each Ahupua`a
enjoyed the bounty of
Mountain, Plains, and the Beach
with it's fish and sea vegetables.