The opportunity a new year brings starts with reflection of what is, or has been, in order to gain perspective on which to build on. For me the meaning of life is: To Love To share To be loved and feel love To help To be helped To be mentored To mentor To learn To teach To know the difference between right and wrong To experience sorrow as well as joy To be able to make choices To use and experience joy and happiness with all our senses To live To develop our gifts To use our gifts to serve…
December 29, 2015: Got a call from Fred & Jane Litt last night notifying me that my great friend Leslie Granat passed away. Her burial was in Haiku this morning at 11 am. I’m deeply saddened by her passing but grateful and blessed to have known Leslie during my lifetime! Here are a few of my thoughts about my dear friend Leslie. A few Thursdays back, Nancy and I went to Makena Beach & Golf Resort to celebrate our 12th wedding anniversary. We went to share a romantic dinner and hear the Kathy Collins Talk Story event, held around an…
GEORGE KAHUMOKU JR. RELEASES NEW CD PANIOLO SLACK KEY – Songs of the Hawaiian Cowboy NAPILI, MAUI – George Kahumoku Jr., host of his weekly Slack Key Show – Masters of Hawaiian Music at Napili Kai Beach Resort, is releasing his new CD Paniolo Slack Key – Songs of the Hawaiian Cowboy CD on December 21. This CD features traditional and original songs in two slack key guitar tunings celebrating the cowboy, horse, and ranching in Hawaii. Paniolo Slack Key is being submitted to Hawai‘i Academy of Recording Arts (HARA) for the upcoming Nā Hōkū Hanohano Awards. Paniolo Slack Key…
Facing my Fears This past Sat, Dec 5-2015 This Saturday, Peter Hanohano led a group of us through an exercise called Strategic Silence. It was a strategy taught by Nana Veary in her book “Change We Must- My Spiritual Journey,” where in silence you are made whole again. Her message was that instead of talking to God in prayer, we listen to him in Silence. “The purpose is to free one’s self of all anger, guilt, resentment, discouragement, disappointment, worry, all the negative patterns buried in the sub conscious mind.” She says, “…in Silent Retreats you clear your channels so…
We want to thank all 62 participants, our 16 instructors, 14 volunteers, 4 scholarship students and all our friends for coming to our 18th Annual workshop! This year Napili Kai Beach Resort cooked most of the meals allowing our own kitchen crew to concentrate on “supplementing” and enhancing. For instance, breakfast additions included boiled eggs from Wende Stitt, our farm grown papaya supplemented by strawberries from Kula and an assortment of other fruits and veggies supplied by Local Harvest and Maui Gold Pineapple thanks to the generosity of John Trino from Haliimaile. We also started two gardens. One was right…