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While enjoying your time here and visiting our astonishing wahi pana, please stay safe and heed warning signs and safety barriers. Please enjoy this moʻolelo on why: KunaMoʻo and the Wailuku River.
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Reposted from my old blog for nā kamaliʻi, “Hula Girl Leinani.”
Today is the day we celebrate the life of Prince Jonah Kūhiō Kalaniana‘ole!
Although he was reared to someday be the King of Hawaiʻi, once Hawaiʻi became an American territory, he did everything he could to make life better for Hawaiians as American citizens. He was our first representative to Congress! Because of that, he is called “Ke Aliʻi Makaʻāinana,” “The Prince of the People.”
His other nickname was “Prince Cupid,” because when he was a baby he was very cute and looked like pictures of baby Cupid. Even after he was a grownup, people still called him “Prince Cupid!”
I which I could have met him. He was a very interesting and exciting person! He love to ride with the paniolo, the cowboys, and was an expert horseman. Enjoyed lots of different activities, including golf, and even learned to fly an airplane!
This hula is about Prince Kūhiō. It is about him and how he and his riding club were so beautiful as they galloped by on their horses. Kumu Leilehua translated it for us.
“He Inoa Nō Kalanianaʻole”
He inoa nou e Kalanianaʻole
O ka hui holo lio o ka ʻehu kaiʻAkāhi o ka nani ua ʻike ʻia
I ka holo kaʻinapu aʻo nā lioUa like me ka wai ānuenue
Ka pipiʻo i ke alo aʻo KaʻalaʻKa lihilihi ʻula o ka pāʻū
E puleleo haʻaheo la i ka makaniHea aku mākou ō mai ʻoe
ʻO Kalanianaʻole la he inoa***
In the name of Kalanianaʻole
And the riding club of the sea sprayNever before has such beauty been seen
As the graceful prancing of the horsesThey are like the rainbow
Arching over the face of Mount KaʻalaThe red fringe of the skirt
Waves proudly in the windWe call out to you
Kalanianaʻole is your name
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The old Honto-no-Hawaii website is now closed, so I have moved favorite posts and articles from it to here. This is one:
Some people know I recently had surgery on my foot, and that I will go back for surgery on the other one. This was to treat arthritis in my feet which had gotten so bad as to prevent me from dancing hula. With frozen toes and severe pain, I could not keep my balance while dancing any more.
Aue!!!! One of the causes of the bad arthritis is my great enjoyment of tasty Hawaiian food! This also caused another problem. . .DIABETES!!!!
So, now I must pay the price and lose some 50 pounds and become a vegetarian (mostly).
But you know me! Always up for the adventure! An opportunity to learn and study!
REAL traditional Hawaiian food is based on complex carbohydrates and vegetables with a little bit of fruit and meat/fish/fowl: Sweet potato greens, taro leaf, seaweed, sweet potatoes, taro, yams, fern shoots, and small portions of fish were the mainstays. At major feasts, dog, wild birds, and pork – lean, not feedlot raised – were shared.
All those high-fat-high-sugar tasty things we are used to are FEAST foods – to eat at celebration times, like the birth of a new chief, Makahiki, etc. The only problem I had with Hawaiian food is that I ate like it was a FEAST day EVERY day!!!
Did you know that statistics say 2/3 of deaths in Hawai`i are caused by nutrition related disease? Iʻm interpreting that as 2/3 of the time we could be healing ourselves through healthy eating, instead of taking lots of medicines which create their own side effects and other problems!
As a kumu, it is important for me to set an example for my students to follow. If I want my students to be healthy, then I must get healthy as an example for them!
So, on to healthy eating! Maika`i no!
Dr. Terry Shintani, a classmate of my dear friend Dr. Sneha Sood, is the creator of “The Waianae Diet,” also known as the “Shintani Diet” and the “Hawaiian Diet.” In this diet, he helped a group of people from Waianae to return to traditional eating practices. After using this diet, they were able to reduce or stop their use of many medications such as insulin.
Here is an interesting video in which he is speaking. He discusses the difference between a real health care system and the current “disease care system.”
My lunch the other day was SOOOO ono, I wanted to share it with you:
Sweet peppers stuffed with quinoa, celery sticks and peanut butter, with two slices of tofu. He piha au! Iʻm stuffed!
Aloha `oe three-choice with half-noodle-and-half-fried-rice plate lunch!
Aloha mai nā veggies!
Maybe not traditional Hawaiian, but cool, crisp, refreshing, and satisfying on a hot day.
A hui hou!
