•No pain, lots to gain • Do the pono thing, despite the cost •I still love you, Kaua‘i •Deal with it No pain, lots to gain The hue and cry of getting it straight in what is meant to keep
•No pain, lots to gain
• Do the pono thing, despite the cost
•I still love you, Kaua‘i
•Deal with it
No pain, lots to gain
The hue and cry of getting it straight in what is meant to keep a separation between church and state has got to stop.
Let’s have moments of meditation and exercise in schools to get all those on their respective campuses centered and focused to get mentally and physically charged up. What’s wrong with promoting harmony and balance between mind and body? Maybe, even, the problem of obesity might be addressed in the process.
Those who get bent out of shape because there are holidays with religious overtones should find something else to fret about. Why not have a faith journey appreciation day proclaimed? It won’t hurt.
Here in Hawai‘i, our potluck style of enjoying food and fellowship with one another should transcend our differences because we have learned to appreciate each other’s recipes and cultural traditions by blending like rainbows that are formed naturally when the conditions that bring the ingredients together are just right.
And while we’re at it, it’s time to bring back school and community gardens all over the island. Think of what that might do to bring the cost of food down while we all get to become healthier, to boot!
Jose Bulatao Jr., Kekaha
Do the pono thing, despite the cost
In reference to the letter thanking our local stores for taking the initiative to encourage people to bring their own bags when they shop, I would like to take it a step further and commend one store in particular for going above and beyond.
Sueoka’s in Koloa has not only offered a bag discount but have cloth bags for sale at the register priced incredibly well.
They also have purchased biodegradable plastic bags for those customers who choose not to bring their own bag. These bags are made of cornstarch and decompose rapidly (mine took a week in my compost).
It’s so refreshing to see a business take the initiative to do the pono thing (even when it may cost a bit more.) I choose to buy my food and supplies at Sueoka’s simply because of this small factor.
So thanks Sueoka’s for the friendly service and setting the environmental par for your competition.
Esther Heckman, Hanapepe
I still love you, Kaua‘i
I lived on Kaua‘i from 1978-1980. I was a “haole” and some of the locals made a point of making me know it. I was never treated worse by people in all of my life, looking back on those years.
One of my co-workers liked to call me “preacher.” I was not sure what that meant but, now, years later, I see that he was a bigot and wanted to vicariously punish me with his shabby conduct toward me for perceived ills done to his “people” years past. Land of aloha?! I would say: Not.
Hawai‘i has nice weather but the “aloha” that I always hear about is fake and phony and just a tourist agent’s wet dream. I know, firsthand, how ugly and how phony this version can be.
There are good and bad people wherever you go. Hawai‘i is certainly no exception. The idea of “aloha,” of course, is super. In practice, perhaps it largely amounts to wishful thinking and energetic PR for Hawai‘i’s economy.
Even so, ever promoting love and harmony and good times is something that I could never argue against. I just wish that I had not seen the underbelly whilst there. It was my first and only experience of bigotry, racism and ancestral hatred.
Still, I loved and love Kaua‘i.
Charles Tapio, Eugene, Ore.
Deal with it
One would think that fishing would be peaceful and laid back, right? You should have been around Anahola and Moloa‘a the last couple of weeks.
Starting at 6 a.m. a single-engine plane starts flying over head; it drones on and on for hours circling around and around. Apparently the aircraft is used for fish spotting and directing a large boat for scooping up schools of fish that are running along the coast.
To say the noise is a pain in the okole is an understatement; it’s obnoxious. This is a commercial endeavor at the cost of everyone else’s peace.
A call to FAA was useless; they said there is no law preventing a plane from doing what it is doing. So deal with it right? Where I live there are no trains, overhead freeways or horn honking in traffic so I have to complain about something.
This morning there was no plane, just the quiet ebb and flow of Moloa‘a Bay. Deal with it, right?
Tom McCall, Anahola
