Although the last day of any experience is often bittersweet, our potluck dessert table made…
Daily Manaʻo for Cohort Kumukahi August 2024 – Friday
Friday, August 16, 2024
To close our week, we invited everyone to leave a message of a gem/flower that they had harvested during our time together. We went around the large circle and everyone had a chance to speak their note aloud before dropping it off into our full ʻumeke:
Ancestors
Deep listening
Pilina
Listening and talking
Mālama
Go exploring
Care for yourself
So much knowledge
Love
Care for one another
Picture of healing
Mālama ʻĀina
Kuleana to ʻohana (immediate and extended) has the power to change the world
You are; You can be
Open your eyes/mind
You, too, are an ancestor
Healing
Build pilina whenever you can
Importance of compassion in creating a shared belief
There are a lot of things to fix but the pewa can become a part of something
It’s not enough to refrain from doing harm; we must mālama ʻāina
Self-reflection
We can connect to people and place
Connection to myth and history
Regeneration is a good guiding principle
Laugh, not fear
Protect the earth
Earth/ʻĀina is our ancestor and relative
You matter in your action and thoughts
Ua loko i ke aloha
Love, compassion, connection, aloha
Pilina to ʻāina
Give aloha to yourself and the ʻāina
Connections protect and repair
The ahupuaʻa is bigger than I thought
You’re not alone, you’re connected to all people (and some of those people are human)
Deep listening
Gratitude
Learning like loving goes both ways
Circles and storytelling
ʻĀina
Be one with nature
Mālama ʻĀina
Don’t forget to bring your ʻāina and kai with you in school; have patience with yourself and others as you continue to learn who you will be