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Kona Kamehameha Day Parade Join the fun on Saturday morning, June 15, in Kailua Village for the annual King Kamehameha Day Celebration Parade on Ali‘i Drive.

This year’s grand marshal, Senator Daniel Akaka, will be riding in a horse-drawn carriage accompanied by his Hawai‘i Island family. Adorned in the flowers of the Hawaiian Islands, regal pa‘u riders on horseback will represent each of the eight major islands.

Beginning at 9 a.m. near Royal Kona Resort, the parade will feature hula halau, equestrian units, decorated floats and marching bands.

After the parade, a ho‘olaule‘a (music and art festival) will take place at Courtyard King Kamehameha’s Kona Beach Hotel, featuring a free concert by Nathan Kawai Aweau of HAPA. For information on parking or parade route visit konaparade.org.

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COVER STORY “ He La Ho‘omana‘o o Kamehameha ”

A day to commemorate King Kamehameha I

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loha to the people of Hilo, East Hawai'i Island and Moku o Keawe!

On behalf of the Royal Order of Kamehameha 1, I would like to welcome all of you kama'aina (residents) and malihini (visitors) to Moku Ola, Coconut Island to celebrate the Kamehameha Day Festival on Tuesday June 11th from 9:00am to 5:00pm. This unique festival is a celebration for the father of the Hawaiian Nation. It was the actions of the this man, the High Chief Kamehameha and his supporters, that laid the foundation of an independent and recognized sovereign body politic here in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. His unification of these islands just 222 years ago, inaugurated the word "Hawaiian", to describe a "Nationality" not a race of people. This "Hawaiian Nationality" was based upon the inherent native Kānaka ‘Ōiwi (aboriginal peoples of Hawai‘i) culture and mind set, traditions and customs.

This "Hawaiian Nationality" is still the focal point of political, cultural and spiritual

debate today.

Over the past 50 years a resurfacing of the native Kānaka ‘Ōiwi culture has come to pass, seemingly generated from the deepest part of the sea and the highest point in the universe. The "Hawaiian Language" is once again a part of the fragrance of these islands from kupuna to kamali'i. We speak it again in our homes and schools, churches, stores, workplaces and streets. The taro culture and aloha on the 'aina comes again to show us health and sustainability and the wealth of the land we stand upon.

The awareness of our environment both land and sea, water and air are a big part of our mindset before decisions are made push the earth. We sail and paddle upon our seas in harmony seeking a new understanding in today's world.

We care about each other and so we promote education, well being an opportunity for our people. Kāne (men) and wāhine (women) of Hawa'i are coming forward to own this unique Kānaka ‘Ōiwi culture born of this unique and special place. Finally,

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These are the actions of King Kamehameha I and a Hawaiian Nation !

Our actions in our time echo our founder King Kamehameha I, Tamehameha the Great! He would be proud of his people! He would be proud of his nation! He would encourage all of us to, Imua (Forward), E ho'omau!

(Continue)!, and build upon his legacy!

So I invite you to celebrate the 2013 Kamehameha Day Festival, with us, the members of the Royal Order

06.13 of Kamehameha I, Heiau o Māmalahoa, our ‘ohana and each other, in honor of the proud father of the Hawaiian Nation, King Kamehameha I. In closing, I would like to share a quote by Kamehameha 1 that was made as he battled the warriors of Maui to unify the Hawaiian Islands. It is filled with mana and inspiration and continues to be relevant for us today.

“Imua, e na poki‘i, a inu i ka wai ‘awa‘awa.

‘A‘ohe hope, e ho‘i mai ai.”

Forward, my young brothers, and drink the bitter waters (of battle). There is no turning back.

E Ho‘okanaka, Ali‘ i ‘Aimoku Ali‘ i Sir Pua Ishibashi K.G.C.K.

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Kamehameha Day in Kamehameha’s Birthplace North Kohala

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he Kamehameha Day Committee announces that a full schedule of activities will take place in North Kohala on Tuesday, June 11 to celebrate the birth of King Kamehameha I. The day will include an early-morning ceremony and lei-draping at King Kamehameha I’s original statue; a floral parade from the North Kohala Resource Center to the statue with a descendant of Kamehameha, Grand Marshal, Pa’u Queen, colorful pa’u princesses, and floats; and a full program ho’olaule’a festivities at Kamehameha Park in Kapa’au.

Food booths, exhibits, craft vendors, and stage entertainment are planned for that event.

This year’s theme is Na Pua O Kamehameha, the Generations of Kamehameha.

The Committee invites everyone to help create this year’s celebration. The planning meetings take place the 3rd Thursday of each month at 6 p.m. at Kamehameha Park concession area.

Please contact the following people for specifics: Food booths and craft vendors: Teresa Marquez: 217-7879 Pa’u princess or private mounted units: Amoo Ching Kainoa: 895-2545 Parade Floats: Chona Ho’opai: 557-6042 Statue Ceremonies: Laddie Shim: 889-5213 Educational Exhibits at Ho’olaule’a: Dennis Matsuda: 333-2744 For general questions or to donate time, money, or equipment contact Committee Chair Cicely Ho’opai at 557-6042, choopai85@yahoo.com.

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CONNECTING CULTURES Honoring Our Host Culture

BY Kumu Hula Paul K. Neves

Huli and Taroists

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loha Aina! Aloha Readers and welcome to the Roman month of June.

The kamali‘i, our little ones, the keiki, their older brothers and sisters, the opio, the teen ones, the makua, the parents, and the Kupuna will be taking a break from school, adding a little vacation, beach time, family time, graduation parties and hopefully have a healthy re-energizing summer.

The young will sprout and grow to the stunned amazement of us all. And we makua will continue to do as our intuition dictates, and wonder over and over how 2013 (is) already half gone!

And our beautiful kupuna, the elders, hopefully will be content and comfortable.

With their gleaming eyes and life‘s wrinkled faces they will smile and radiate the true love all around them.

So in June we move forward, together as one community, one great extended ‚ohana. Here on our island of Hawai‘i we will face each other in this moment of our lives. Can we see ourselves as one community? Can we see one island made of many gifted human beings?

Can we see we‘re interconnected and responsible for each others happiness? Do we have the potential to see tomorrow and the next day as an investment into the life of this land and each other?

My friends, I believe we must try to pay attention to the signs of these times. These signs, our Hawaiian ancestors watched and observed and acted upon daily. These signs signaled the need to change, to move, to regulate, to preserve, protect and perpetuate the life of a people,

who realized that they had to be resources for each other on an island in the middle of the Pacific.

Fresh and healthy food, clean water and air, housing and shelter weren‘t going to come from somewhere else, these resources were here and needed to be cared for and nurtured. Don‘t do this, and we would not survive, we would all die, or we would have to leave and find another place, somewhere out there to live.

Our Hawaiian ancestors of these islands learned how to co-exist with each other.

They were not perfect, they fought each other and destiny but they never stopped learning from life‘s experiences.

From 1843 to 1893 before the U.S. sponsored an illegal takeover, our ancestors had declared Hawaiian neutrality among the family of nations.

They were content to change and be at peace themselves and with the world.

Buddha says ”enlightenment” is the acceptance of good and evil. The western settlers speak of dispelling darkness for the light, but don‘t the stars shine in the darkness of night? From millions of miles away the stars guide us in our daily human survival.

In June we Big Islanders will again celebrate the founder of the Hawaiian Nation. Kamehameha I was not a world traveler like me.

He did not dine in Japan or Argentina or Europe or the America‘s like I have. You, the readers, and I have more access to knowledge at our very fingertips than he ever did. Yet this native ali‘i, chief born of this island, steeped in a civil war, following the religion of his heart and culture of his time, saw the need

for Huli or change. He saw it and he consulted the learned community of his time.

Kamehameha 1 and his supporters made it happen.

It was difficult and more difficult than the words of this article asking YOU to change might suggest. ”Huli”, to change directions, or to replant the old in a new way as we do taro, is about making a life change. For instance I have lost 80 lbs. over a year and a half‘s time. Not easy, but necessary, and yet my body is the same body Akua gave me. I replanted myself so that I could survive and grow.

And so ”Huli”, change made my replanting possible and it can work for you too! It is never to late to change.

As we near the Kamehameha Day Festival let‘s take a look at the taro being planted at the Kamehameha Statue on Bayfront. The ”Taroists”, those who have replanted taro there, what are they doing? Are you in support? Is it now a crime to plant taro in Hawai‘i? Does it make gunpowder? If Kamehameha was not a statue and that was him standing there and he knew the condition of his people and this land, what would he do? Wasn‘t he known to plant alongside his people and compel his chiefs to do the same? Was it for political reasons or for cultural practice or for spiritual points? ‚A‘ole! I think he did it because he was the body politic, the people needed to see the body politic at their side

JUNE • 5 and the blessing of hard work fed the whole community. We shouldn‘t be arresting anyone for ”Huli” we should all see ourselves as co-planters of Hawai‘i for our own survival.

Auwe! With that I am going to take some ”Huli” down to them right now to plant and to feed another member of my community. Maybe it might just be you.

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n this age when there is much controversy and hardheaded opinion heard on every side, I find it a challenge to know “the whole truth” and harder still to voice it using any knowledge that I have up to this point.

The subject for this month’s column is the term “state.”

Politically, a state is a sovereign and independent county. A nation-state. Fortunately for Hawaii, its status as a state politically is a condition that wasn’t wiped out with the overthrow of its government in 1893. There are Hawaiian leaders today who are scouring the records of the past to bring out hard facts to prove the right to jurisdiction, and there are Hawaiian leaders who are doing everything

at the level of their expertise and dedication to bring the Hawaiian state into its own once more on a wise and just humanistic level.

It is well put to call the Hawaiian Kingdom a reemerging state.

I am not talking about the inferior political designation on the federal level or its offshoot as the State of Hawaii. Yes, I agree, all we hear about is the State of Hawaii and Hawaii as the 50th state of the union of states called the United States of America, so there appears to be little tangible evidence that Hawaii can re-emerge into its personal maturity. Statehood for Hawaii, i.e. the Hawaiian Kingdom, became a reality in 1843 and 1844 when the three major powers in the Pacific, Great Britain, France,

and the United States of America acknowledged the Hawaiian Kingdom to be capable of internal sovereignty (home rule), and external sovereignty (universal interaction) in the family of Nations.

That acknowledgement is the underpinning of the drive to put Hawaii back on the map as a viable power with economic and legal repercussions to affect the rest of the world.

“The sovereignty of the Hawaiian State is preserved in righteousness.”

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MAGICAL HAWAII ancient hawaiian puppets © BY Serge Kahili King 2013

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ne of the least known aspects of Hawaiian culture is the hula ki’i. This is a hula performed with puppets. One of the only sources with any depth is the book, Hula Ki’i: Hawaiian Puppetry, by Katharine Luomala, and I will use that as my main source for some of the information below.

The ki’i itself—in this case the puppet—consisted of a head, a torso, and movable arms wearing a cloth garment. In one form the head was also movable and was inserted into a hollow torso, with the arms being moved by a string located inside the torso. The other kind had a one-piece head and torso with the arms attached to the shoulders. An arm of such a puppet that was given to the Ulster Museum of Ireland in 1834 was made of a bundle of small sticks covered with tapa cloth and had four fingers made of dog teeth.

Photographs from Luomala’s book show puppets carved from wood with moon-like, expressionless faces reminiscent of the masks of Japanese Noh dancers. In one photo an elderly Hawaiian man is sitting in a chair with what appear to be male and female puppets on either side of him as he holds a “baby” on his lap almost exactly like a modern ventriloquist would. This brings up some interesting speculation.

No one knows today exactly what the original hula ki’i performances were like.

The earliest record of a performance seems to be when King Kaumuali’i of Kauai gave one to missionaries in 1820, who apparently did not appreciate it, but no clear description of it is available. A clue comes from a statement by Luomala that “verbal devices, not a puppet’s physical appearance, clothing, or props, were the puppeteer’s—or his drummer-chanter’s—major resources, since the little images had limited flexibility.”

What could those “verbal devices” be?

In Hawaiian Antiquities

by David Malo, in a chapter that he calls “Obsession” and that nowadays would be called “possession,” he says in regard to possession by a deity, “Sometimes these deities played strange tricks when they took up their residence in anyone: they would, for instance, utter a call so that the voice seemed to come from the roof of the house.” That is about as clear a description of ventriloquism as one can have.

JUNE • 7 Other probable examples are when spirit voices came from within oracle towers too small for someone to hide in, and when the war god of Kamehameha the Great, Kukailimoku, was said to speak in a voice that could be heard above the sound of battle.

Hawaiian tradition speaks of two forms of “possession.” One is noho, meaning “to reside,” in which a spirit supposedly enters the body of someone, often regardless of their will.

The other is haku, meaning “to perch, as on a shelf or a branch.” It is my contention that this related to what we might call “conscious channeling,” The Hawaiian Dictionary lists the phrase haku leo as meaning “spirit voice,

ghostly voice” and I think this refers to ventriloquism.

Some modern ventriloquists report that their puppets seem to be channeling either the ventriloquist’s own subconscious or something else, so even the channeler can be surprised by what comes out, much like fiction writers and their characters.

The art of ventriloquism has been practiced since very ancient times in many parts of the world by shamans and priests, sometimes for deception, sometimes for healing and teaching. It is therefore highly likely that it was used in the hula ki’i tradition of Hawaii as well.

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Roundabouts

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s a regular reader, you know that Nurse Patt and I vacationed on Kauai this year. In Hawaii, like other places throughout the United States and elsewhere, there is a type of traffic intersection that has been in existence since the early twentieth century.

It‘s a thing called a “roundabout” in which one enters from one of many entrances into a circle (or, in some cases an elongated oval) and turns out at the exit in the direction one wishes to go. The folks in the circle have the right-of-way. Seems simple, doesn‘t it?

I know, I know, this is starting out to be the most boring column you have ever read, especially if you don‘t like to use your turn signal – EVER! So, please go to the next page and find a really good merchant to support.

For those of you still here, I know you are saying: “What’s the problem?”

The problem is that, unlike in Europe, where almost everyone signals when they are about to exit a “roundabout” – Here, no-one signals when they are going to exit.

You can wait for 10 minutes at a busy time of day to enter just because folks don‘t know how to signal in these spherical interludes.

Please pay close attention to the next statement.

When you are going to exit – Turn on your turn signal to the right. I know there are those of you who refuse to signal – period. My advice to you folks is: Stop driving and turn in your driver’s license.

Speaking of driver’s licenses, I recently had to renew mine. I was advised by the clerk to “not smile” as she said that one is never smiling when one is pulled over by the police. So, rather than have them arrest you for looking like someone else, don‘t smile. I didn‘t and the first thing Nurse Patt said to

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D me when the new license arrived was, “Why didn‘t you smile?”

I asked a friend in Hilo why people don‘t want to signal when they are going to turn. He said, “They have to keep one hand on the steering wheel and one hand on their iPhone or Android so they can text.”

If that isn‘t another column someday, I don‘t know what is.

I would be interested in what other driving gripes our readers have. While people who refuse to signal when turning is one of my two main gripes (my other one is people driving slowly in the fast lane), I may be driving others crazy with something I am doing that peeves others.

If I am, let’s start a movement to improve driving skills on our roads.

So the next time you see an old man in some 14-yearold piece of “Detroit Iron” on your bumper when you are crawling along in the fast lane, or giving you an evil stare when you refuse to signal in a “roundabout”, ignore me and please remember: whatever I write has no bearing on anything, it is “Just my opinion.”

BY Carl Oguss

ear Hawaiian Dog Whisperer, Why do some dogs seem to want to attack every other dog or person they meet? Is that natural?

Is it training that makes them that way?

Mahalo, “I am a curious fellow.”

Aloha Curious, Most dogs’ aggression towards strangers is “defensive aggression”; what they are really saying with their body language is that the other dog or person looks like they might be dangerous to either the dog or to its human(s) if they are nearby.

They are, in effect, saying “No! Back off. Don’t come any closer or I’ll bite your nose off.”

When dogs want to say “No” to something, they always do so by making a display of body language that is easily understood as being a “credible threat.”

This is essential to realize in developing our understanding of how dogs communicate and our ability to communicate clearly with them.

So, most dogs feel some fear in these situations, with the biggest exception being cases when the dog is defending its home territory.

In that case the message is “No trespassing (or coming near)” without necessarily also feeling that the stranger is dangerous.

Whether the aggression is defensive or territorial, we should be able to stop our dogs from barking or lunging. We can teach them to distinguish between real and imagined threats.

This is part of socializing our dogs to the environments and activities they will experience on a regular basis.

Its fine to want our dogs to defend the home turf, but they should be trained to not leave the property and act aggressively to folks merely passing by on the road.

It’s fine to have our dogs

protect our families if assaulted while on a walk, but they should be trained not to treat every passer-by as if they were a threat.

Next month: How to do this!

Send your questions and comments to Dr. Carl F. Oguss, easthawaiidogpsychologycenter@yahoo.com

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BY Marcel Hernandez, N.D.

Clean Food Lucky We Live Hawaii!

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very time I go to one of the farmer’s markets on the Island I smile in gratitude for the bounty of fresh, organic, locally grown produce that is available at extremely reasonable prices. I just don’t understand how Island residents can buy non-organic, contaminated mainland produce at supermarkets when we have such clean food easily available. I say this because as a Naturopathic Physician, I see on a daily basis the effects of agricultural chemicals on our bodies. Chemicals used in food are directly responsible for a huge number of illnesses, including some of the most aggressive cancers known and severe neurological conditions. But bacteria laden food is also worrisome and is getting a lot more media attention.

Here’s the scoop on some of the most contaminated foods: Apples – That shiny, crispy little fruit packs a nasty surprise. Apples sit atop the Environmental Working Group’s (EWG) “Dirty Dozen” as the most chemically laden produce available commercially. Pesticides and fungicides are applied after the harvest so the fruit can have a longer shelf life. Washing and peeling the apples is ineffective as the chemicals permeate the meat of the apples.

Green Leafy Vegetables (lettuce, spinach, kale, chard, etc.) – Although leafy greens are nutritional powerhouses, they are also heavily sprayed and are grown in large fields, which are susceptible to E. coli contamination from feral animals that track in manure,

or from contaminated irrigation water. Remember also that Hawaii County water contains Atrazine, an herbicide that was used extensively on the sugar fields. Atrazine it doesn’t break down in the soil and is an endocrine system disrupter – this means that it has been implicated in hormone-related cancers, like breast and prostate.

Tomatoes – Fungicides, insecticides – commercial tomatoes receive about 100 gallons an acre of chemicals before they are washed and sliced for your table. Like other produce, the chemicals permeate the meat of the tomato where washing doesn’t go. Also, unlike other raw produce, which is usually exposed to bacterial contaminants during the handling process, tomatoes can be contaminated at just about any point from the field to manufacturer, which makes them particularly risky. In fact, tomatoes are most often contaminated as they grow, when salmonella enters a tomato plant through its roots, flower or small cracks in the skin or stem.

Peaches, Cherries, Nectarines – On the mainland, tropical fruits are expensive and are highly prized. In Hawai’i, when Costco brings in their summer fruit, they can hardly keep it in stock.

The annual EWG evaluation lists all thee in their annual “dirty dozen” list. EWG also states that even after thorough washing, 67 percent of these fruits still retain “traces” of the chemicals.

A slight digression…

Some may argue that these “traces” are well below EPA

tolerances. Right! Who determines the tolerances? Everyone knows that the EPA is well staffed by former employees of the chemical and pharmaceutical industries. Plus, each person has a unique threshold tolerance for chemical assault. We also do not know each person’s accumulation of tissue toxins from previous encounters with chemicals. For many people in the modern world, even the smells of certain chemicals provokes a reaction. I could easily get political here, but instead let’s take a quick look at a few other foods, apart from produce, that are commonly consumed in Hawai’i.

Ahi tuna – Sushi lovers aren’t going to like what I am going to say. Most people know that ahi has moderately high mercury levels. But ahi can also be contaminated with a toxin known as scombrotoxin, which can form if fish isn‘t kept cool enough (less than 40 degrees F) from the time it is caught to the time it is consumed. The range of symptoms experienced from eating contaminated ahi is quite wide, but may include an oral burning or tingling sensation, skin rash and localized inflammation, hypotension, headaches and flushing. In some cases vomiting and diarrhea may develop and elderly or sick individuals may require hospital treatment.

Eggs – Between 1990 and 2009, eggs were responsible for 11,163 reported foodborne illnesses, mostly due to salmonella. It appears that

JUNE • 9 eggs can very easily become contaminated while still inside the chicken or in the hen house. The best protection is to refrigerate eggs as soon as possible. Add eggs and other dairy and meat items to your grocery cart last go home immediately after shopping.

Also, undercooked (over-easy, soft-boiled or poached) eggs increase your chances of contracting salmonella. According to USDA, eggs should be cooked until the yolk and white are firm; egg dishes should be cooked to an inter-

nal temperature of 160°. “ I could go on to cheese, berries, sprouts and others, but let’s end on a positive note. The Environmental Working Group (mentioned above) says that in all of their testing of produce, the least contaminated, commercially grown foods are onions, avocados, sweet corn, pineapples, mango, asparagus, sweet peas, kiwi fruit, bananas, cabbage, broccoli and papaya. Yay! We can grow most of these right in our home gardens!

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Without the mindfulness piece, the changes in the body will remain unobserved and unnoticed, the experiment unsuccessful.

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In this edition of LONG STORY SHORT…Puakea Nogelmeier, Hawaiian language advocate and teacher at the Manoa campus of the University of Hawaii for more than a quarter of a century. He was Marvin Nogelmeier when he landed in the islands on an adventure. He didn’t mean to stick around; Hawaii wassupposed to be just a stopover on the way to Japan.

But this is where he stayed.

And it’s where the young man in his early twentieswas singled out by one of Hawaii’s most respected Hula Masters ….

Well, the name was given to me by Maiki Aiu Lake, and it was her name. And it blindsided me [chuckle], and I didn’t understand it. I was in hula with one of her students from the first graduating class, Mili Allen, out in Waianae. Maiki used to borrow us; but we didn’t really know her. I mean, she was the mother.

M-m.

She was the head of it all.

And so she’d borrow the men dancers especially. So we had performed for her, there was thank you luau afterwards.

And she’s the one talking, so we have to wait until Maiki finishes. And she’s thanking, seemingly, everyone in the Honolulu phone book. And then she launched in talking about the man with the spear, and I want you meet the man with the spear. Well, we had done hula it was done with a spear in hand. And so she starts going, So I want you to all meet Puakea. Puakea, stand up and show them who you are. Now, I’m three or four rows back. And she keeps pointing right to me, and going, Stand up—this is Puakea. And I’m still not standing up. And my hula brothers and sisters are going, Marvin, I think she’s talking to you. [chuckle] So I stand up with one of these, you know, you’re the wrong guy— [chuckle] Or, it occurred to me,

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LONG STORY SHORT Leslie Wilcox Talks with Puakea Nogelmeier maybe she just got me confused with someone else. [chuckle] So I’m blushing to the roots of my hair. And she goes on real naturally; This is Puakea, and he’s out in Waianae, and he’s dancing with Mili, and so I sit down, totally befuddled. And we go to leave and we’re gonna ask about, by the way, I’m [WHISPERS] Marvin. [chuckle] And from across the way, she goes, That was my name when I entered the hula, and now it’s your name.

What an honor.

It’s an honor, and it’s part of her method. ‘Cause then we all get in the car, and my kumu now is left to explain all that. So I’m thinking, It can’t be my name, I was born Marvin. [chuckle] And so Mili explained that that’s a really heavy thing, to gift a name, and to gift her own name. And so from now on, that’s it. So in halau is where it started. I was always referred to Puakea. But it signifies, fair child, in effect. So I was the pale one in our line.

That works. She never really explained why that name, orwhy she gave me her name.

She just said, I expect you to do good things.

The fair child born as Marvin Nogelmeier spent his early years moving with his family throughout California and Nebraska, finally settling in Minnesota when he was seven. One year after high school and during a particularly vicious winter,he was persuaded by friends to quit his job at the post office and head off on

an adventure to Japan with a brief stop in Honolulu.

Lost my wallet in the San Diego airport. So we had driven cross country, gone toSan Diego. We had an airline ticket to as far as Honolulu. I would pick up passport here.

I didn’t even have a license, I didn’t have my birth certificate, no money, really. I had my plane ticket. So I came to Honolulu. Had to call andsay, okay big adventurer, already blew it, lost my wallet.

M-hm.

Mom— Send money.

Yeah. Mom, get me a birth certificate. My money came first, birth certificattook probably a month. By the time the birth certificate came, it just seemed there was no rush to get to Japan.

So put that off, and put that off.

Why did you decide to stay? What happened in that month?

Oh; from the airport, we ended up going out. We stayed at Makua Beach.

How did you— It’s 1970— —find you way to Makua Beach from the airport?

The two kids I’m traveling with actually knew people here. There was a Minnesota house at Makua Beach.

Oh. Mostly, this is a leftover—a lot of that was Vietnam War folks; guys who had come back. They weren’t ready to go back to the states. And a whole bunch of folks ended up out there. So we end up in this handmade little, nadas in Makua Beach. I lived there for three months. Maybe the nicest three months of my life. Really. Just blissful igno-

rance. I didn’t read a newspaper, I didn’t think about anything. Just wandered along, enjoyed water, enjoyed sand.

And I guess they would have thought of this as homeless, although it’s really the most organized homeless that I’d ever seen. There were full houses, fully equipped.

And this is right on the edge of the beach?

Right on the edge of the sand.

Ah. Up against the keawe trees and the haole koa.

Right.

And I mean, it was really a remarkable place. There were probably fifty people.

The Minnesota Hooch had two bedrooms. Two like formal [INDISTINCT] and a bunk bed.

Wow. I mean, made out of plywood, made out of leftovers that were found all over the place. Kept very tidy, actually. Full kitchen setup, dishes, everything. It’s not exactly the way the homeless are running today. [chuckle] It did fall into decline, and by the late 70s, they were doing cleanups. It had gotten pretty … just a lot of rubbish, but it was actually tidy, nice place to be. The beach was pristine. Chilled there for three months. I actually

got an infection on my foot, and had to go to the hospital.

They would not let me out of the hospital if I didn’t have a residence. So I ended up moving in to Makaha; moved in with friends in Makaha.

Puakea Nogelmeier confesses that his first means of support in Hawaii was living off his unemployment checks. Then he linked up with a community of artists inWaianae and became a goldsmith.

Oh; that was my career.

That was something I could do for the rest of my life.

And I’ve not done it now for thirty years. But who would have thought. And one of my co-crafts persons was Mililani Allen, who became my kumu hula. She did beautiful silk batik, with Hawaiian motifs and just beautiful things. But one day, she was talking about, Well, I’m teaching hula. We didn’t know she taught hula.

And I want to open a men’s class, but guys are so gun shy, they won’t take it. And so we pretty much said, Well, you should open your class. We’ll take your class.

What was the name of the halau?

Halau Hula O Mililani.

M-hm.

I came as an empty calabash. I’d been here for a

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LONG STORY SHORT while, but I learned Waianae stuff, not necessarily Hawaii stuff. So we step into class and it’s just a doorway to a whole new world I didn’t know was there. So while all the girls’ classes were an hour a week, the guys’ classes we’d start at six, we’d go ‘til midnight. ‘Cause we were so intrigued, and we were so empty. [chuckle] And so engaged. The halau became a social center— M-hm.

—for us.

You were doing more than—dance, you were doing language?

Well, we were doing dance. And with dance, in the Maiki school of dance, you have to do research.

I see.

—attempt translation, and you have to write notes for all your dances. You have to keep notebooks, there’s quizzes. It’s like an academy of dance, right?

So we did that. So I started to learn language just sort of randomly. Then we started to learn chant. There was project in 1975, 76 maybe, called The Mele Project.

So we could memorize these things. And I’d have to memorize the Hawaiian, and then memorize the English to make sense out of it. And the payback for these classes was, we had to do presentations. You had to go out to schools and what not, make it living practice kinda thing.

So we did a presentation, and it might have been at McKinley, I don’t remember. This old gentleman walks up to me and talks to me in Ha-

waiian. And I was stunned.

I said, Oh, sorry, Uncle, I don’t speak Hawaiian. And he looked a little crestfallen, and he said, Well, but how can you understand what you’re chanting? I said, Well, I memorized the English.

And it sounded dumb. It still sounds a little dumb. [chuckle] But he says, But how can you tell how well you did?

How can you tell how well you did.

Yeah.

Who was this man?

Well I didn’t know who he was. He walks away. And I thought, You’re right. And then I thought—right there, I just thought, You’re right.

Why would I engage if I’m not trying to learn what this is about. So then I started to try and learn Hawaiian language. Now, it’s probably ten years later that I realize who that old man is. He’s Auntie Edith’s husband, Luka. Yeah, tall, handsome man. And you know, I was so blown and intimidated, I never even asked, Who you?

M-hm.

So we started, we went back to Auntie Edith McKinzie, who was running our class with Auntie Edith Kanakaole would come teach us, but Auntie Edith was the main one. We want to learn some language. Well, she was a student herself, really.

She wasn’t a native speaker.

Her mother spoke it, and her grandmother, so she had a good handle, but she’d gone to classes. And she says, Well, I’ll teach you what I know. So we started with a class on her

back porch.

That back-porch class would lead him to another home-style learning experience, with an elderly man, born in 1891, a cultural expert and noted photographer who’d taken pictures at the funeral of Queen Liliuokalani. His name was Theodore Kelsey. Young Puakea was introduced by Mr. Kelsey’s caretaker, the writer/historian June Gutmanis.

She researched Hawaiian stuff, and she had written a number of books. Na Pule Kahiko, Kahuna Laau Lapaau; she would assemble Hawaiian language material. And she could do that ‘cause she had this old gentleman living with her; he was eighty-eight, I think, when I met him. And he was fluent in Hawaiian.And he would help translate. He would translate all her things, and then she would make sense out of it. So when I met him, and I asked him, Would you be able to teach Hawaiian?

He said, No. [chuckle] He said, I’m not a teacher. He says, There’s some books on that.

M-m.

But with what Auntie Edith was doing. See, I’m a highly motivated [chuckle] character. If I want something, I’ll usually figure out a way to— M-hm.

—try and make that happen. So I would take what Auntie Edith was teaching us, which was pretty simple Hawaiian, and I would talk to him when I went up to visit, and he’d talk back in Hawaiian. He wouldn’t teach me Hawaiian, but he’d engage. So my Hawaiian was atrocious.

So you must have gotten to some dead ends in the conversation.

Oh, dead ends; lot of dead ends, or misunderstandings.

‘Cause I would say, of course, what I thought … meant A,

and he would understand it very clearly forwhat I’d really said, which was B. So he’d respond to B, and I’m still in A— Was he able to correct you? Did he do that?

It started off so slow, I took to going up three days a week. I would be there and he welcomed that, and June welcomed that. It was sort of an interesting triangle there.

June would give him things to translate. He was a gentleman; he was born in 1891, so he had a whole different set of ethics. He would not translate anything for her that was sexual or inappropriate for a lady.

Oh. She’d always tell him, I’m no lady. [chuckle] But he’d just say, Oh, I can’t understand this. So she would give me things that he had sent back to her saying, I can’t interpret this, and he’d interpret it for me.

Oh, I see. Oh, you— So this became— You were the guy.

Yeah, so this became an interesting little triangle. So in the course of this, he would correct me the next visit. Way too gentle. So let’s say that instead ofsaying wai-a-nae, I say wai-nae. So the next visit we’ll be in the middle of something, and he would go, Oh, and I ku manao, o Waianae ka pololei. Oh, by the way, I think that Waianae is probably correct. Correct for what? And it took a while for me to recognize that he’s actually dealing with some-

thing that I misunderstood, mis-said, mis-translated and something-something from the last— And that’s his way— —visit.

—of being gentle and polite, and old school.

In the course of a few years, and it took a few years, he would correct me as I said it.

Oh, okay.

Whew. [chuckle] Big, what do you call, progress. So then it became more workable. The other thing is, he was going deaf rapidly in English, and not in Hawaiian.

How does that happen?

June was insistent. It’s just ‘cause he likes Hawaiian. It has nothing do with it. Actually, we run into a lot of elders who can hear in Hawaiian, and cannot hear in English. The structure of the language is different enough.

Hawaiian is very projectile in its way. Every word ends in a vowel. So every word exits.

M-m.

And a lot of English words don’t.

You swallow the syllable.

And the end word is a consonant. Like a word like consonant.

[CHOKING SOUND] You know, it all goes in. So just too much of it is unheard. In Hawaiian, every single word ends in a vowel. Every syllable ends in a vowel. So it’s actually a lot more hearable. Also, this, the low resonant voice goes in, in a way that upper range wouldn’t go. And even in HaContinued on pg.12

12 • JUNE gonna be an academic, and I launched in taking Hawaiian language as fast as I could.

Thank goodness, Noe Losch, who you might know— M-hm.

—was my teacher. And she knew what I was doing already, so she let me take 101 and 201 at the same time.

And I may miss two days a week, because I went to see Mr. Kelsey on Tuesdays and Thursdays. So she let that go.

And so I showed up three days a week, and did class.

And that made sense out of the pieces. ‘Cause I could always bring something— M-hm.

—interesting back, and on Monday, she’d go, Well, if you see Mr. Kelsey tomorrow, ask him about this.

It’s— You know.

—experiential learning, so that—[COUGH] —that fits.

It made it so usable.

‘Cause I wasn’t in school. I didn’t even necessarily want a degree. I was in school ‘cause

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You were continuing to do your …

Yes. Your metal work, your craft work?

Yeah, yeah.

Jewelry.

Actually, I start to step away from that about the time I launch into school. I’m doing it part-time now, I’m doing it special, for a special event or something. And then we step away from it. That’s about the time I step away.

That’s when you decided, this is where I’m turning my body?

Well, and I make money different there; I’m a student aide at school, or I got paid for where I lived. I was a caretaker for a house.

Oh. On the beach in Waianae. So they paid me to

live in this house. To go to the beach. [chuckle] It was a nice life. So that pretty much covered expenses, and then school paid for itself. I got scholarships for school, just enough to cover tuition. Tuition at Leeward Community College wasn’t real intimidating yet; it was forty dollars a— [chuckle] —semester.

Is that right? Forty dollars?

I think that was it, for full-time.

Had you learned any languages before this?

I learned Spanish badly when I was in high school.

And did you have an ear for language? You must have.

People say that I do, and I think, Then why did I have to work so hard at it?

And you’re willing to work at it.

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So she’d come to the table and say, Do you want more eggs?

At first, he wouldn’t hear anything. And then finally, she’d tap and he’d have to look and she’d end up shouting. YOU WANT EGGS? YOU WANT EGGS? And he says, My leg?

What? [chuckle]What? What you want? And then if I just turned and said, I hua moa ho nau? Oh, no, no, no, I’m fine, he’d answer.

M-hm.

And it’d be so frustrating for her. But that’s the level and the language.

Sounds like you’re making progress, then. You’re learning Hawaiian.

Oh, by then, we were rolling. We were rolling.

Once it started, I mean, I was so fascinated.

And were you learning more than basic words? Did he actually explain nuances, or were you able to tell nuances from how he spoke to you?

It’s so funny, he’s born …

I don’t know, what, seventy years before? He was born in 1891. So we weren’t gonna exist in the same worlds. He’s the oldestliving human I’d ever met. [chuckle] So what do you talk about? Actually, we kind of just jumped off the cliff and went into deep water. Later on, I had to learn stuff that made sense.

We would go mostly into things that June was trying to get translated, were either chants or articles that were really kinda dense articles about opinion pieces in the newspapers. So we’re working on language that’s way over my head. And he’d walk through and go, Well, this is this, and this is why, and this is …, but doing grammar, doing phrasing, and why this would be said here, and what this place name really means, so if it shows up in this chant it’s … Well, this is stuff my little fragile head really wasn’t ready to get a hold of yet. So we’re playing there.

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H Y R O I D OVERVIEW– Don’t let not the size fool you; the amazing two inch butterflyshaped thyroid gland in front of the neck orchestrates an intricate web of interactions for nearly every organ and function of the body. This tiny gland is the master center for the metabolic functions of every single cell in our body.

It is intimately involved with regulating many key bodily functions such as energy production, cardiovascular system, bone metabolism, hormone production, fat and glucose metabolism, red blood cell production, protein and cholesterol metabolism, gastrointestinal function, brain function, nervous system, and more Please check last month’s article where we began an exploration of thyroid health with hypothyroidism. Our focus this month is on holistic thyroid health, and a less common thyroid disorder called hyperthyroidism.

WESTERN MEDICAL VIEW of OVER ACTIVE THYROID– Hyperthyroidism is characterized by an over-active thyroid gland and increased circulating levels of thyroid hormones.

Some of the many symptoms are increased heart rate, restlessness, heart palpitations, aversion to heat, nervousness, insomnia, weakness, breathlessness, GI upset, increased appetite with loss weight, decreased menstrual periods, infertility, insomnia, muscle deterioration, hair loss, bulging eyes, diarrhea, heightened anxiety, and depression. The most prevalent form of over- active thyroid is

Graves’ disease in which the body’s autoimmune response causes the thyroid gland to produce too much T3 and T4. Optimal functioning of the thyroid gland depends on several factors: correct functioning of the hypothalamus and the pituitary gland, an adequate supply of iodine, and conversion of thyroxin (T4) to triiodothyronine (T3).

Blood Test: For a positive diagnosis of hyperthyroidism levels of T4 and/or T3 must be high, while a level of TSH (thyroidstimulating hormone) is generally low. If you think you may have a thyroid imbalance, it’s a good idea to see a healthcare practitioner to request a full thyroid hormone panel, as well as testing for iodine, selenium, and vitamin D levels.

HOLISTIC VIEW– Thyroid dysfunction is a hidden epidemic with many theories. It is never the thyroid alone but; a combination of different factors.

According to TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine), the root of hyperthyroidism is deficiency of qi and yin and the symptoms considered excess. Treatment, therefore addresses both the cause and the symptoms with acupuncture, herbal medicine, and dietary therapy. TCM offers consistent and reliable benefits in

the treatment of hyper- andhypothyroidism. The sooner is diagnosed, the easier it will be to bring it back under control with dietary therapy, supplements, and lifestyle changes.

Let’s look at some factors that may contribute to a thyroid condition - Autoimmune disease: In autoimmune disease, the immune system gets confused and begins attacking its own body.

The causes of autoimmune problems may include chronic stress, endocrine stress and fatigue, viral infection, radiation, intestinal dysbiosis, hormone imbalances, autonomic nervous system imbalances, and more.

- Nutritional deficiency: While some thyroid issues do have complicated underlying causes, you can help to maintain your thyroid health by making sure your diet includes the full spectrum of vitamins, amino acid, and minerals such as iodine, selenium, and zinc to function properly. Many conventional foods are nutrient deficient due to soil depletion.

Certain food such as soy, gluten, dairy, peanuts and sugar can also block nutrient absorption. Cruciferous vegetables like cabbage, kale, and broccoli benefit overactive thyroid.

- Environmental toxins: Heavy metals (lead, mercury and copper toxicity), pesticides, plastic residues and so many others cause immune system confusion, and toxicity.

- Hormone imbalance: Women are more susceptible than men to thyroid disease.

Hormonal changes such aspregnancy, post-partum,

JUNE • 13 perimenopause and menopause can be key trigger for the development of thyroid problems.

- Emotional toxins : Mindbody-soul interaction is such a critical factor to optimal health. The body is a very complex system of organized intelligence that seeks homeostasis.

It is important to understand that either hypo and hyperthyroidism, or any illness does not just happen.

While the above factors can be part of a perfect storm to

create a thyroid condition, let’s not forget to address the emotional and spiritual aspect of the thyroid which is related to self-expression and the voice of our soul. It is there, in our throat chakra that thoughts and intentions transform words into action.

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Just how costly is college? According to the College Board’s figures for the 2012-13 academic year, the average cost for one year at an in-state four-year public school is $22,261; for a private school, the comparable expense is $43,289. And if college costs continue rising faster than the general inflation rate, these figures will increase substantially in the years ahead.

Of course, it’s entirely possible that your kids will receive some scholarships or grants, which can significantly lower your out-of-pocket price tag. Nonetheless, it’s probably a good idea not to count on your offspring getting a “full ride” to school — which means that you may want to start exploring college savings vehicles.

Fortunately, you have some attractive options, one of which is a 529 plan.

When you contribute to a 529 plan, your earnings accumulate tax free, provided they are used for qualified higher education expenses.

(Keep in mind, though, that 529 plan distributions not used for qualified expenses may be subject to federal and state income tax and a 10% IRS penalty.)

Furthermore, your 529 plan contributions may be deductible from your state taxes. However, 529 plans

vary, so be sure to check with your tax advisor regarding deductibility.

A 529 plan offers other benefits, too. For one thing, the lifetime contribution limits for 529 plans are quite generous; while these limits vary by state, some plans allow contributions well in excess of $200,000. Plus, a 529 plan is flexible: if your child, grandchild or other beneficiary decides against college or vocational school, you can transfer the unused funds to another family member, tax and penalty free.

While a 529 plan may be a good choice for building resources for college, it’s certainly not the only choice.

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MO’ MONEY is used for higher education expenses. However, you can typically only put in a maximum of $2,000 per year to a Coverdell account.

Another college-savings possibility is a custodial account, known as an UGMA or UTMA, which offers some tax benefits, no contribution limits, and may have an impact on financial aid.

You might also consider investing in a zero-coupon bond that matures just when your child is ready for college. Unlike other bonds, you won’t receive regular interest payments with a zero-coupon bond, but you purchase it at a deep discount, so you might find the affordability factor to be worth considering.

(Be aware, though, that even though you don’t actually receive the interest payments annually, you’ll still be liable for the taxes on them, so before purchasing a zero coupon bond, consult with your tax advisor).

Whichever college-savings vehicles you choose, try to put them to work as early as you can. Before you know it, today’s first-graders will be tomorrow’s college freshmen.

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n his poem, “Mending Wall”, Robert Frost says, “Fences make good neighbors.”

Its about boundaries, allowing others their private space and them allowing you yours.

I was a mature adult before I even heard the word boundaries meaning something different than land measurement. I was working for a psychiatrist and she told me that a patient didn’t have boundaries and I asked her, “What do you mean boundaries?”

What a shock to me to realize that we all have personal boundaries and that it is a very good thing to recognize your own and others ‘ as well. Since that eye opening conversation with the doctor,

I have watched myself and others in action and marveled at how often I rush in and actually burst into a conversation without respecting the boundaries of a group of people.

It is also a cultural thing, this boundary idea. In some countries that are heavily populated the people tend to walk closer to each other on

the street, and when they move to America, still tend to stand close and walk close to each other.

Besides personal space boundaries, there are psychological boundaries that are wise to know. There are certain subjects that are better not being brought up in conversation with certain people.

We have all been told to not mention religion and politics unless we want to find out just how heated a conversation can get!

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JUNE • 15 right to you. Say no when people want to infringe upon your time and space.

Be the decision maker in your life. Rolling along and letting other people decide how to use your energy, space and time, is not fulfilling. Be the captain of your own ship and honor the boundaries of others. When a friend says, “No” to you for whatever reason, respect that and don’t do the begging for them to say ”Yes” that I hear so often from people, trying to control their friends’ actions.

Life is an individual trip.

We travel with others sometimes, but mostly alone. We only have so much time and energy, make it count. If an activity is meaningless to you,

give it up, move on to something that brings joy and laughter to your heart.

Respect your own boundaries and those of others… pause and listen before you enter into a conversation with a group…be alert to what is going on around you at all times. Boundaries are wonderful and meant to make our lives more meaningful and enjoyable. Write down on paper what your own personal boundaries are in several categories…physical, emotional, mental, political, spiritual, etc. This will help you understand more of how you react to others and how they might react to you.

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y intense 22 year connection with Tarot is shifting, dramatically. Traditional Tarot is part of the old 3D (third dimension) paradigm and I’m letting go. We’re moving into 5D. Dragging the old paradigms with us hinders our passage. A new door has opened.

This drastic change began around year 2000. A barrier was pierced and a different energy became available. But like so many changes, when one is in the shift, it is difficult to see it or its outcome. Just ask a caterpillar in his cocoon, soon to be a butterfly. It trusts its DNA driven need to change; without knowing the outcome.

We too must trust our light activated, DNA driven transformation.

The change with Tarot was startling at first; pointing to a Universal metamorphosis.

Signs began occurring telling me to release the old way of thinking, of earning income, of doing. More and more difficulties reinforced the urge to change, encouraging me. So many signs from Spirit happened it became laughable. I could have chosen not to listen to this guidance; but my world is linked to Spirit, my best friend; so I listen.

Credit card machine, housing while traveling, Expo booth mates, flight schedules and more each broke down.

With that many signs, I paid attention. A last minute Tarot reading caused me to cancel a Chicago trip, even though I was unable to recoup my costs. It feels unnatural when things like this occur; like you’re out on a limb. But either you trust or you don’t.

It’s that simple.

For a few years I’ve

known the Expo archetype was ending. Still, Expos are a doorway for some. We are all at differing points in the path. Some find safety in an Expo crowd to begin breaking away from old stranglehold patterns, instead of seeking alone.

I looked at this big shift and saw uncertainty. The safe, old ruts were eroding.

Change was happening. I had to let go, allow and trust. I did and I came to a standstill.

The old paths seemed closed.

This is the scary part. What do I do? But I’ve been down this path before and I trust my relationship with the unknown.

I wait.

This is a not an easy task.

Our old pattern is to do something, fill time, work towards a goal or take action.

I wait.

The hard part is not knowing what’s next, but trusting I’d be shown, eventually.

I got caught up in studying Tarot yet again, in a new

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IMAGINATION way. Then a breakthrough occurred. I saw a map of this shift in the Tarot; a bridge to 5D and how to make that happen.

In old Tarot readings, people wanted predictions; or to be ‘fixed’; told what to do and how to do it; or to pretend someone else made their decisions so they didn’t have to take the responsibility for them. But my work is about self empowerment. I believe no one needs to be ‘fixed’. I know each person is a creator and exactly where they need to be right now. By sharing this new map, they begin to see their own path and their vibrations soar.

Everyone is moving into the new paradigm’s vibrations and those on the cutting edge of consciousness: metaphysical healers, counselors and lightworkers; have an important role to play. To the extent and speed we let go of our attachment to the old wisdom, we can embrace the new paradigm and experience 5th Dimensional energy.

Our DNA is changing.

Our connection to our higher self is being redesigned. You may have strange aches and pains, odd occurrences in your life, big shifts and releases. All presages change. Allow it. Physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually we are under construction. The neural pathways of intuition and self awareness are being downloaded and upgraded.

For these new teachings, we must apply the enlightened tools of the 5th Dimension: Love, Allowance and Compassion; for ourselves and for

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our 7 billion other-selves on Earth.

I will listen to my intuition. I will allow new choices and new knowledge to arrive.

I will trust they are perfect and in alignment with our quantum growth. Guidance will prepare me for new perspectives in my thinking and for release of attachment to old, familiar ways of being. I must let go.

We will be shown why and how we are more than just a human living in this space and time. Our multidimensional higher selves are instructing us as we enter 5D galactic consciousness.

Just wait. Be patient. It is already happening.

We are more than we think.

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H

i Stef. Could you tell us about yourself?

First off, thanks for this opportunity, Corinne! Born & raised here in Hilo, Hawaii, I was overweight, shy, and insecure for most of my youth years. In college, I majored in Exercise Science & worked at the university gym.

At age 20, I was diagnosed with Crohn‘s Disease & became sickly skinny, malnutritioned and anemic. I was determined to build muscle, cure this supposed incurable disease, and gain my health.

These experiences pushed me to dive further into fitness and nutrition.

How has being a figure athlete changed your life?

Being a figure athlete has taught me balance in body, mind and spirit in order to manage disease and enlightened me with a positive outlook on food, exercise & life.

Who inspires you?

Arnold Schwarzenneger.

He‘s achieved the impossible.

From bodybuilding, acting, and now to being governor, I feel I have the same traits to conquer life and do ANYTHING that I dream and make them reality.

Would you place a greater emphasis on weight training, as opposed to cardio, for fat loss?

That‘s sort of a trick question, [laughs]. I would emphasize both weight training & cardio for fat loss and overall optimal fitness levels.

But, you‘ll find me weight training anyday over training for a marathon. The more muscle mass you have, the higher your metabolism is at rest. I value my muscle that I‘ve built over the years and know that it benefits me for

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fat loss.

How do you keep balance to your hectic life?

How do I do it? I‘d like to know as well! I do well micro-managing & juggling my tasks. This includes being a mother of 2, a full time university instructor, running my own personal training business, my own Figure competition training, service to the community, rest & play. The best advice I can give to balance life? I have ”me” time every single day, whether it be resting on my bed, reading a book, or soaking in the tub. Balancing life begins with balance of your SELF. As a fit mom, how do you influence your children to eat healthy?

My 8 year old daughter & 5 year old son are very aware of my training & meal plan regimen, what I‘m training for and why. Overall, it‘s about example and creating healthy family habits. I teach them moderation. Yes we all enjoy sweets and occasional fast food joint together, too.

I don‘t emphasize the idea of skinny-ness, but rather, tell them everyday how beautiful and handsome they are.

Can you tell us more about your work as a Personal Trainer? How does your training style differ from others?

I‘ve been an NSCA-Certified Personal Trainer since

2003. I was a personal trainer in big and small gyms while living in Utah, Missouri, Arizona and now back in Hawaii.

Today, I run my own Steffitness Personal Training and offer 1-on-1 sessions, buddy and bootcamp sessions, emphasize sport specific training & bodybuilding/competition prep, and have extended to online 12 week Transformation programs. I obtained my Master‘s degree in Sports Psychology. What makes my training & style unique is that I also incorporate sport psychology in my training.

Hence, the Transformations I assist in are not only externally, but internally as well.

Is it necessary to have a gym membership to be fit?

Most definitely not! I train a handful of clients at their home gym, a few of which I‘ve helped them to create and decorate. With the outdoor bootcamps that I also lead, my intent is to show people that our body is our ultimate fitness machine.

How important is nu-

Stefanie Basso trition to you?

I say, you are what you eat, drink....and think. Nutrition is key to how we look, how we feel, how we perform & function on a daily basis.

We can either make food be our ultimate fat burner, or fat gainer. We choose.

What training regimen would you offer a client who wants to lose weight?

1) Take inventory of eating habits 2) Begin a balanced meal plan and exercise routine. 3) Be accountable & assess progress weekly 4) Keep your head up and persevere.

Tell us about this exciting competition that you have coming up?

Placing 2nd in the Women‘s Figure Open at NPC‘s Stingrey Classic last year, I am qualified to compete nationally for a procard at the USA Figure this July, in Las Vegas, NV. If I place 1st or 2nd in my division, I get

my Pro card and become an IFBB Figure Pro. What‘s most exciting is the global exposure and reaching a personal fitness goal I‘ve always dreamed of. This experience is a great reminder that everybody is destined to and can be a champ.

Are there any closing thoughts that you would like to share with the readers of the Paradise Post?

In life, it‘s not about getting a chance; it‘s about taking a chance. Go for your dreams!

To learn more about Stef, please visit her sites & links: www.steffitness.com www.steffitness-journal. blogspot.com

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BY Carol Barbeau

appy birthday to you Sun Signs in GEMINI and CANCER and for all of us we are gifted with the gifts this month of New ideas (Gemini) and inner knowing and increased connection to our own needs (Cancer) The eclipses are now over until fall and it is time to UNLEARN the old STORIES and begin to live our new lives. What is your old story of fear and separateness, and isn't it time to let it go and write your new Story?

The most Ancient birthstone for June is the EMERALD, which is about truth and fidelity And the Modern June stone is the Agate for grounding and Centering Junes Flowers are the Honeysuckle and Roses Use the Colors of White for Purity and Green for Prosperity and Healing June 2013 is the 6th month of a number 6 year which means that we are all numerology wise getting to experience a 3 month. Time to open to MORE joy, more fun and recognize lessons as learning's and not roadblocks.

With Saturn (accountability) in a retrograde pattern (in Scorpio) and the North Node working its way

towards the September touch down of the planet of Karma (Saturn) and Destiny (North Node) this month seems to be trying to really put some new options on the table.

Scorpio is about feeling deeply and moving inwards to make those necessary shifts.

The sun in the intellectually stimulating and social sign of Gemini until the Summer Solstice on the 20th encourages connections and social contacts and assists us all to be more open to new ideas. Jupiter finishing up in Gemini brings new people and relationships into our lives and options seem all around us.

June 2nd Venus the planet of Love moves into Cancer encouraging a connection to others and also asking us to remember healthy self care is mandatory right now. On the 7th as Neptune the planet of visions and Intuition moves retrograde until November 13th, followed on the 16th by Chiron the wounded healer moving retrograde. Both these giants of intuition and healing are in the sign of Pisces and Water, is all around us.

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June 19th for the last time in 12 years, The Sun (the light and the NOW) is touching Jupiter in Gemini. This is a time when we are able to see those old stories and recognize as Jupiter moves into Cancer on the 25th we

JUNE • 19 can no longer hold energies which are slowly killing us.

Pain, hate, blame, need to be released and replaced with a strong sense of KNOWING we are loved and trusting that we will do what we came here to do.

Then on the 20th as we enter the Summer solstice the Grand trine of Water energies updates, upgrades and opens us to new levels of intuition and the ability to heal with ideas and inner connection is stronger perhaps than it has ever been upon this planet.

Water is intuition, psychic awareness, dreams, visions, feelings, emotions and the blood in your veins, the energy which carries healing or fear through our bodies.

Fear causes disease and this month I believe many will find healings for old wounds, both mental and physical.

Mercury retrograde in Cancer on the 26th should

be a good time for many to find inner resources and maybe cause of pain and help feel the truth of our lives. MERCURY retrograde is the best time to reconfigure, reconnect, replant, rethink, repair, realign that there is and this is a wonderful one as it is much about self and truly beginning to understand your own inner needs.

Mercury retrograde in Cancer brings great gifts to us of connection to self until July 20th as we are asked to pull inwards and double check our emotional responses and rely more and more on intuition.

Mercury retrograde is not the best time for that new business, a marriage or new contracts, but it really is wonderful for the re type of activities.

Namaste Carol Barbeau, http://www.carolbarbeau.com carolastro@carolbarbeau.com

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