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4/15 How to Love a Child: Take a Leap of Faith
Aloha Kakou! Love to us All! “In a big scary confusing world, you make me feel safe,” said Paul, a 10-year-old child. Then he wrapped both arms around me in a big bear hug. He had just completed a unique painting playshop with ArtWavEs, one that started with balancing energy routines, led to students learning and embodying the joy and power of painting for peace, and ended with beautiful works of Peace Art for inner
...read more3/20 Sunday Equinox Ceremony: The Subtle Dance of Body and Soul
SPRING EQUINOX DRUMMING CEREMONY this Sunday! Aloha Kakou! Love to us all! I am delighted to be guiding the annual Spring Equinox Ceremony at the New Thought Center of Hawaii on Sunday, March 24th, 2024, at 10 am! Spring calls us to an inner and outer flowering. Nature does not need humans to continue its glorious task of flowering, fulfilling its promise every year despite our mistakes and woes. Celebrating the perfect equilibrium of Equinox
...read more1/18 This is the Future - Beyond War
Aloha, Kakou! Love to us All! We are so fortunate to live as we do. Yet the tragedies of our modern times weigh heavily on us all. We can stand for a ceasefire and paint peace flags all day long, but if we can’t move past the traumas of our collective heritage, unwinding and healing the traumatic memories of offenders who act out violently, we could remain stuck in a warring world. I’m a believer.
...read more11/23 Inspiration, Gratitude, Lahaina, & LT Smooth
Aloha Graceful Ones! So much to celebrate now, this moment! And tomorrow. And tomorrow and tomorrow. This Thankful Season, I am grateful you are in my life. Grateful for being alive, for Koakane’s radiant health restoration, and for good friends, artist collaborators, educators, parents, uncles, and aunts, and most of all, the children who inspire and are inspired by you, by me, by us together. THE MUSIC OF LIFE I am excited to share with
...read more8/10 Climate-Change Fires or a Livable Planet? Think again....
Dear Wonderful Friends, Mahalo for your calls and emails about the fires in Hawai’i. My broken open heart goes out to the families of those lost and left homeless, to everyone on the islands, and to all of us on Earth. Naming what’s true is the only thing that soothes my grief and horror over the destruction of global warming. Naming things is creation itself in indigenous cultures. The magic happens when you realize that
...read more6/3 Dr. Green's Recovery - Invitation for Healing
Aloha Friends! So many of you have asked how to help Koakane — Dr. Green to most — during this difficult time. As he recovers from several devastating issues that hit him all at once — hemorrhagic stroke, kidney disease, a UTI, and prostate problems — he needs our support. Lest you think him unhealthy, know that he is one of the healthiest people I know — in so many way — but his early
...read more5/9 Violence -- A Story We Can End
If my father had kept an ice pick in the left bottom drawer of his desk, I doubt that my brother would have taken it one night and stabbed himself to death. Instead, at 20, in a moment of rage, he picked up the Colt .45 my Dad kept there and shot himself in the head, dying instantly. It’s oxymoronic that some people actually call this gun a “Peacemaker.” Most guns, while originally used to
...read more5/4 An Astonishing Story -- Mini-UN Makes "Peace Shift"
Dear ArtWavEs Community! We’re all painting on the great Canvas of Love, and I trust your compositions are masterpieces! The aspiring peacepainters at Kealakehe Elementary School are certainly creating “master-peaces,” original and salient silk paintings for peace in their hearts, and more astonishing, peace in the world. It amazes me, but what the children say about it and how it turns into kindness and harmony is even more striking. Working with the AWE team this
...read more4/28 The Power of Art & the Love Wave
Hey everyone. Aloha kakahiaka! I am feeling good, like a major love wave is washing over me with Ho’oponopono, bringing things back into balance. The love wave came out of an encounter with a ten-year-old boy who had been hateful one day before, but who made the turnaround from bully to artist on Day Two of our Peace Arts Intensive at Kealakehe Elementary School. Transformations and metamorphoses happen all the time during an ArtWavEs’ experience,
...read more4/20 Rites of Passage for Peace Arts: EMTs of the Future
Deciding it’s just another rite of passage does wonders for my mood. Realizing the heartbreak I feel from the news of violence, guns, poverty, and war doesn’t need to paralyze me. I can keep breathing deeply, flowing in harmony with what is, a divine plan, an antediluvian way of learning through conflict, and not get caught up in the trauma dramas so many people do, like I used to. It felt awful to live in
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Spirit of Hawaii -- YOGA IN PARADISE
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