Huleia 💗✊🏽Mahalo for providing the hunt for food and gathering more tables and poi board slabs for the ‘Ohana. To prepare the encampment we kanakas, prepare our spirits. You can list the number of chants Kumu Hula and Kahu provides, but we all must pray together for those that will to appear. We ask for wisdom and understanding, respects to all beings ; for the life we take, we all sacrifice , we don’t waste , and we provide wether a table or a book page or it pieces for Kalai ki’i carving tools. We just dropped off Papakuiai to Makuahine o @k__oh__la @hemanahawaii in replacement, for hers was shared for class and stayed borrowed, a pohaku ku’i sat waiting for its pair. As promised the new board gifted without the story of its calling was delivered , because one can’t offer a gift in front another who share the same value of wisdom and skill, with mokos who also share our cultural craft with others. At this time, the kahea to her cousin is not answered, as it is with others ...until she receives notice with her papa ( ranking board), that her cousin who accompanied her during our projects arose in ascension. We as cultural practitioners must hold stead fast, for the authenticity of our nature is hidden in our humility and rarest choice to share our genealogy or our values . So as Aunty Wilma ascends home , we pray in English, Pigin and ‘OleloHawaii , her Kumula’auohai rib (ohai sacred tree slab) awaits a voice that is most quiet and far off in distance. The kaiwi , the kuamo’o... #iwikupuna #holiwater #literature #history #trailblazer #wahinetoa #waiwai #piiae #kuaiwi #values #kekumukuai #integrety #pololei #maheaoe #thepathforward