Weapon of choice . Preparing the moana to give space to the kaula that will be brought in bound with mana’o from mahi’ai, lapaa’au, haumana , makaainana , makua , kupuna , kumu laau. We’ve spent 40-60 years training and upcycling tools of wisdom, in the last 10 years collaborating with my (once living PBUH and living) kahunā and kumu in cutting and seed exchanges , my favorite element alchemy with the i’o , sharing the various names of invasive to natives to avoid yelling matches, to sharing old indigenous lifestyle practices that were coined with new English branded names just to communicate , we’ve reforested with food forests, revitalised the perspectives of garden and farm -to -table which is an on going hoomanaai policy with certified meaai and hoomaemae . (This year we finally won policy for farm -to -table ). We found the ends of some of our “loose ropes” and cleverly noose them together, and finding the weakest thread to attempt to strengthen it to be independent and taught for the time being, for they are the reason we are. At the end of every kaula rope there’s a beam or a thread , iako to hold the platforms to protecting a seed of sorts . The seed of our generations to come, a seed of technical skills , a seed of aspiration, one of our dark seeds that has flickered a light and found another element of strength to join us and with all his/her weaknesses we find examples to learn how to find better solutions to attain MANA💪🏽 . Manifest and reverb to our naaumakua I kahua💗🙏the reciprocity of our Maoli energy. He moku, He wa’a; He wa’a, He moku. The science and creative world wants to see the past, our students just want to see the tools to heal and the tools to mend exist. As a child, sometimes our help share ,can cause a problem. Sometimes, we are the messenger from one elder to another, a religious tactic of our DNA; a move forward, to sift in all the glory, we must give room for the living and ...the dead. #temanalove #manamakua #parenthood_unveiled #campusarboretum #scifi #soilremediation #imu #mala #one #maliamahiko #hoomaemae #keiahale #soilrestoration #teamwork #ikekaula #kuaiwiacademy #kupunaike #kahua #wisdomextraction #homelandsecurity (at Kekaha, Hawaii)