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Dear Ones..I don't believe in ownership of land. I believe in stewardship. While we are alive, we take care of the land and it feeds us. When we die, perhaps our children take stewardship. This is a concept for future generations. This is the Nature Conservancy approach. Regarding Jason's question, ...

Dear Ones, I want to pass in a way so I can leave my kidneys and pancreas to my son who is dying while he waits for a transplant. My work is done. My husband says he loves me but his actions are his actions. He says that Thai women want and need to serve men. it is their genetic inclination. I told ...

Dear Jason and all, I am ready to leave the planet and take the form of dust and electrons moving through space because I am tired. I am sad. I discovered that my dear husband has engaged in prostitution in thai brothels. I have done my work, a huge part of which was serving and loving him and helpi...

Is Jap an insult? My father in law uses this word when we have been gracious and kind to him. He would refuse to take his shoes off in people's homes, because his ways were more civilized. Perhaps he didn't care that this was an insult to the home where he was graciously received. People of every cu...

In the 1880s, ////// Kalakaua invited the people of my grandparents generation to Hawaii to live and work. He saw similarities to our core values and wanted to add their ethnicity to Hawaii's community. ////// Kalakaua was an educated man of forward moving action. My grandparents toiled the land in ...

Why did the term haole continued to be used for whites? Because they destroyed sacred sites. Because they changed the water use laws that were designed to serve the rich in the community and left little for the taro farmers, because they disrespected culture, called Hawaiians heathen and forbade the...

Consider this about the US Banking meltdown. These seeds were sown in the 8 years of Bush administration. This house of cards started to fall apart during the Bush term of office. Structures and laws that govern banking institutions were changed. These decisions were Bush administration decisions ju...

Dear still browsing, Obama is a special circumstance. If Bush had not created such a huge mess, the US would have elected another white male. Obama grew up in Hawaii where he was not degraded for being black. He does not have the rage of slavery in his background, though his wife's great grandfather...

Dear ones, Regarding paradoxes...life is paradox. Why is being white and male the basis for power all over the world? You grumble, but look around you with heart and compassion for your fellow human beings. You are not better, you are fortunate in circumstances of race, birth, opportunities. People ...

If we look at what has happened to Hawaii perhaps the Thai laws can be seen in some perspective. Hawaii was a kingdom and a monarchy. It was self sustaining. Conservation and proper respect for natural resources was vital to survival so it was embedded into the culture. It was not a perfect world bu...

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