HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY Ma’ema’e: Cleanliness, to clean				HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY “When one does not clean the side of the poi bowl properly, he is unlikely to wipe his behind clean after defecation.”
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 TODAY AT NOON - It’s the Third Annual Lahaina Town Beach Clean Up, sponsored in part by the Santa Fe Cantina, the Kokua Hawai`i Foundation, among others. There’s hardly a better way to spend a few hours on Saturday afternoon than enjoying the sun at a Lahaina beach and helping clean our little part of the world. There’ll be giveaways from local retailers, food donated from Maui restaurants, and live music. The fun starts at at 12 at Kamehameha Iki Part, front Street.

 Superferry - “The argument that existing freight operations and cruise ships were not required to prepare environmental impact statements when their loads clearly have environmental and traffic impacts seems perversely resigned to a principle that once one error slides through, so should all the rest.” - Ed Tanji, The Maui News.  Read More …

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Unless the inhabitants of an island share a state of consciousness which has been developed over time by the best minds of past generations, its people and itself will not survive.

There has never been an island that has exceeded itself by indiscriminately acceding to the wishes of a nearby continent.

An island is like the flame of spirit in the heart, it does not grow brighter, warmer or spread more light, by meeting the needs of a more dense body.

An island is like the crown of an ancient redwood, it can become part of a canopy, and it can intertwine its roots, but its trunk stands strong and tall alone in the forest.

An island is like a cloud, which can be trapped and robbed of its most essential nature in the fall of rain on a mountainside.

No island was ever made better by a bridge, a plane route, a cruise ship or an explorer.

Paper money, trinkets, unneeded tools, toys and technology and land-lusting bipeds have never made an island more beautiful, self-sustaining or naturally enchanting.

The smaller the island, the more beautiful the setting, the more valuable the elements, the more warrior-like must be the inhabitants to protect the land from the soulless ones who see and feel only the nothingness they bring.

Every man is shipwrecked, but not everyone is respectfully grateful to come upon an island, which also evokes the joy of one’s heart.

It is an irony of the universe that the miserably selfish have come to the land of Aloha.

- Raphael O’Suna,   Haiku