Mo'o hihia on a Hoaka Moon

When I was a little girl my Aunty Lily showed me how to notice clouds. I have never stopped noticing. The sky and the clouds changed in a matter of minutes yesterday before sunset. Hoaka Moon.

Mo'o. lizard, reptile of any kind, dragon, serpent; water spirit

Mo'o hihia. series of difficulties, troubles

- Hawaiian Dictionary, Pukui & Elbert

I noticed the lizard skin, mottled or perhaps breaking apart like the shedding of skin too small to contain the mo'o growing. As I watched I searched for the 'ike papalua the insight. The loss and grief, the difficulties and challenges. E ho mai i ka 'ike papalua. On the shoulders and backbone of my ancestors, and the gift given me as a little girl in Kuli'ou'ou Valley. The ao mo'o ... the clouds of the water spirit remind me to notice and listen with my whole body.

(Muku or) Hilo Daytime; Pule Ho'ulu'ulu

 The temperature was like summer. The air dry. Only a very gentle breeze. Perfect day for preparing a new bed for pole beans, summer squash, and herbs. 

Sifting the lepo to get loamy soil ... tilth

And bare feet!

Perfect weather for drying clothes, too

As I sat taking a break at the picnic table I saw something big in the lower chicken yard. A flash of black. A flash of red.
Pileated Woodpecker.

Mary, our friend and land-mate said she thought we were now hanai-parents (adopted parents) to a pair of Pileated Woodpeckers after the land across the road was clear-cut this family lost their habitat. They're welcome here.

Sunset. Bright orange ball through the trees. In the west.

Later in the evening the sky and the forest was a shade of violet.

This was ka la (the sun) at sunrise on this po. In the East.

The opening line to Pule Ho'ulu'ulu

"Na 'Aumakua mai ka la hiki a ka la kau!

Ancestors from the rising to the setting sun"

Last night when I was pau with playing in the dirt, I had a big WOOW. We live in a place where we can see the sun rise in the east and set in the west. Sacred space. Mahalo na 'aumakua, hilo ia a pa'a. 

Kane Moon

Kane Moon

" No fishing. No planting."

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(Listen to the opening

Oli Ke Welina Mai Kei Kekini O Lalo

 for KANE
... and Kekuhi Kanahele interpretation, "Kane in his largest form is atmosphere ...") 

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