• Dreaming of a green Christmas • A true Hawai‘i Aloha Christmas spirit • KIUC should pay fines • Musically inclined Dreaming of a green Christmas What is the spirit of Christmas, 2010? Whether your personal attention is focused on
• Dreaming of a green Christmas • A
true Hawai‘i Aloha Christmas spirit • KIUC should
pay fines • Musically inclined
Dreaming of a green Christmas
What is the spirit of Christmas, 2010? Whether your personal attention is focused on religion, family, friends, fun, love or profit, please remember to respect the planet while engaging in holiday activities.
That box with the new flat-screen TV — where will it go once the contents are plugged in? What about the wrapping paper, the tissue paper, the greeting cards, their envelopes, the boxes in which gifts from auntie and the cyber Monday treasures arrived?
The empty bottles and cans left over from the parties and family gatherings? Did Santa bring new clothes, appliances, toys? After Christmas, what will become of the tree and the wreath?
The story of Christmas begins with a reminder that God so loved the world. Please return the favor. Love our world! Collect those boxes, paper, empty glass and plastic containers and deposit them in our island-wide recycling containers.
Donate HI-5 beverage containers to a local school or use the proceeds to pay down that overburdened credit card.
The retired tree and evergreen wreath will make your bougainvillea, gardenias and azaleas very happy if you use the branches as mulch. Old clothing and appliances can find happy new homes and help a good cause if dropped off at your nearby thrift store.
Will the Spirit of Christmas include “dump it all in the landfill”? Or will you take responsibility to love and protect God’s beloved world, especially Kaua‘i nei?
Merry Christmas. God bless everyone who makes this a consciously green holiday season.
Marianne Luken, Kapa‘a
A true Hawai‘i Aloha Christmas spirit
One year ago my husband, Gregg, was released from the hospital where he had been fighting for his life. A couple of our very good friends (Richard Porto and Laural McGraw) called and asked if they could come over and sing Christmas carols to Gregg.
I immediately contacted our management in our development to make sure it would be okay. I then contacted our golfing friends to include them.
We had no idea how many would be singing as it was a couple days before Christmas. These wonderful people (golfing, Kaua‘i Community and Women in Theater friends) drove from Princeville and Po‘ipu and other parts of Kaua‘i to sing to Gregg. He stood up on our lanai while over 30 dear friends sang to him.
This would never have happened on the Mainland — only here in Kaua‘i would one have this wonderful Aloha Christmas spirit.
The love that was shown that evening to Gregg, our daughter Sally and granddaughter Taylor was overwhelming. A truly memorable moment here in Kaua‘i!
Vivian Nickerson, Lihu‘e
KIUC should pay fines
KIUC’s CEO and Manager should pay for the fines to NOAA, instead of the members. They (CEO & managers) knew that the hoods should have been installed to cover the bright lights in the stadiums to prevent the shearwaters from crashing into the lights and onto the football fields.
I’m pretty sure you all out there would agree with me. Stop the abuse that will be forced on us by the KIUC CEO and management commitee. Let them pay the fines out of their salaries.
Howard Tolbe, Ele‘ele
Musically inclined
Growing up in a Jewish home was not the norm to listen to Christmas music, in fact it was taboo.
Whenever “Silent Night” or any Christmas carol came on the radio I immediately suffered an episode of Christmas envy. Many Jewish children suffer from this syndrome “CES” (Christmas Envy Syndrome).
“Christmas envy” is where you wish you were Christian and able to celebrate Christmas in the open and not in the closet.
Little girls suffer from the Freudian syndrome of a certain kind of envy, myself and many Jews suffer from ‘Christmas envy,’ and some of us suffer both forms of envy.
As an adult I can pick and choose what I listen to and am not bound by what my parents believed. I enjoy Christmas music, but deep inside always feel guilty for listening to it.
It’s like falling in love with someone of another religion and marrying them. You combine your beliefs and realize Christmas envy does not need therapy.
James “Kimo” Rosen, Kapa‘a
