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WWW.THEPARADISEPOST.COM THE PARADISE POST FEBRUARY• 1 THE PARADISE VOL. VII FEBRUARY 2015 NO. 78 Cover artist John Kelly Cards and prints available from www.islandartstore.com 2 •FEBRUARY THE PARADISE POST WWW.THEPARADISEPOST.COM Big Island Quilt POSTDATES Shop Hop Starts February 1 2015 Big Island Quilt Shop Hop Shops West Hawaii *Topstitch Waimea Center 65-1158 Mamalahoa Highway, Kamuela, HI. (808) 885-4482 www.facebook.com/TopstitchHawaii *Fabric & Quilting Delights 74-5599 Luhia St., Unit D-5, Kailua Kona HI 96740 (808) 329-8177 www.FabricandQuiltingdelights.com *Quilt Passions 75-5626 Kuakini Hwy., Kailua-Kona, HI 96740. (808) 329-7475 www.QuiltPassions.net H. Kimura Store, Inc. 79-7408 Mamalahoa Hwy., Kealakekua, HI 96750 (808) 322-3771 East Hawai‘i *Pahala Quilting and Creative Sewing Center 96-3196 Maile St., Pahala, HI 96777. (808) 238-0505 www.PahalaQuilting.com *Kilauea Kreations 19-3972 Volcano Rd., Volcano, HI 96785 (808) 967-8090 www.KilaueaKreations.com *Kilauea Kreations II 680 Manono St., Hilo, Hi 96720. (808) 961-1100 www.KilaueaKreations.com *Fabric Impressions 206 Kamehameha Avenue, Hilo, HI 96720-2835 (808) 961-4468 www.FabricImpressionsHiloHi.com road trip for quil- and more—with special in- Island Quilt Shop Hop ters and fabric store prizes at individual launches February 1, lead- fanatics, the 7th shops. ing into the 22nd Annual Annual Big Island The eight shops will also Waimea Cherry Blossom AQuilt Shop Hop revs up Feb- have exclusive quilt block Heritage Festival and the ruary 1- 28, 2015, featuring patterns, one from each store, Hawaiian Quilt Show pre- eight different shops from plus a custom quilt “center,” sented by Ka Hui Kapa Ap- Kona to Hilo and points in for the 2015 Shop Hop quilt. ana O Waimea. Maps and between. Traveling quilters This year’s custom design is passports can be picked up can have passports stamped a playful take on Hawaii’s any quilt shop on the route, for a chance to win prizes, favorite footwear: the “rubba and “shop-hoppers” can fol- collect quilting squares to slippa.” Eight different pairs low their own path, or sign create a custom “slippa” of flip-flops, one from each up for a West Hawaii bus quilt for 2015, and enjoy the shop, seem to be kicked off tour by calling Karen Barry company of fellow quilters in the sand, flower garden, at Quilt Passions, 808-329- island-wide. or at someone’s front door, 7475 – or an East Hawaii Grand prize, for those making for a fun and color- tours, with Leimomi at who visit and get passports ful quilt composition. Each Kilauea Kreations II, 808- stamped at all eight shops, shop has also designed a cus- 961-1100. is a $300 travel voucher for tom center block, featuring For more information Hawaiian Airlines. Other island images from tradi- contact Mary at bigisland- winners will receive hotel tional honu and dolphins to [email protected], or stays, one-yard cuts of fabric, a “yellow polka dot bikini.” visit www.facebook.com/Big- quilt shop gift certificates The 7th Annual Big IslandQuiltShopHopHawaii. WWW.THEPARADISEPOST.COM THE PARADISE POST FEBRUARY• 3 CONNECTING CULTURES 02.15 they experience this “loneli- ness as painful and yearn to ENLIGHTENING • EDUCATING • ENTERTAINING Nurturing Our Taro Patches escape from behind the walls Editor & Publisher David Bennett of their individual identities Design & Production Hilo Bay Printing BY Jimmy Toyama Research Norman Spaulding to a condition in which they Advertising Sales Ron Johnson can be more unified with the ROVING REPORTERS Our Taro Patches Jimmy Toyama world outside themselves. Magical Hawaii Serge King The experience of falling in Imagination Dolly Mae Plantation Days John Cross love allows them to escape Potpourri Richurd Somers this loneliness—temporar- Mystic Traveler Diana Fairbank Is Falling Inspiration Norma Menzies ily.” What’s Going On Up There? Carol Barbeau Hawaiian Host Culture Paul Neves The euphoric, oceanic, Health Anita Cawley, Marcel Hernandez Connecting Cultures Angie Libadisos What goes on with peo- and omnipotent feelings of Spiritual Healing Kellyna Campbell In Love ple when they fall in love? the fallen in love is short Kama’aina Corinne Quinajon Peck says that it happens at lived. Soon, as Peck says, All rights reserved, copyrighted 2014 no articles can be reprinted without permission. a moment in time in their “reality begins to intrude The Paradise Post is not responsible for the lives when they experience images and statements of advertisers and au- upon the fantastic unity of thors. Submissions due the 5th of the month. a sudden collapse of a sec- the couple who have fallen tion of their individual ego in love. Sooner than later, in For annual subscriptions, boundaries permitting their response to the problem of send name & very year as we ap- fabric of our everyday lives. identities to merge. With daily living, individual will address with $30 to: THE PARADISE POST Loveproach Valentine’s Thinking about this dis- the “sudden release of one- asserts itself.” Examples, P.O. Box 1816 Day, the com- tinction, I was reminded of self from oneself, the explo- he wants to have sex, she Honokaa, HI 96727 memoration of what M. Scott Peck, author sive pouring out of oneself doesn’t; she wants to talk 775.0033 Elove moves front and center of “The Road Less Traveled” into the beloved, and the about her job, he wants to [email protected] into our consciousness. We said about falling in love. In dramatic surcease of lone- talk about his; she doesn’t HAWAII’S start planning and making his best seller, M. Scott Peck liness accompanying this like his friends, he doesn’t DIVERSE preparations to affirm our says that the individuals collapse of ego boundaries like hers; she wants to save UNIVERSE love for the special other in who have fallen in love feel is experienced by the lovers money, he doesn’t; and on CONNECTS our lives. We order roses, ecstatically and wonderfully as ecstatic. We and our be- and on. Gradually the re- CULTURES buy chocolate candies, write at one with the other. People loved are one! Loneliness is alization sets in that each is Native Hawaiian fluffy airy messages hoping who have fallen in love ex- no more!” their own person and they Caucasian that the very words we write perience a sense of omnipo- According to Peck, ego are not one. “The ego bound- fully expresses the “real love” tence where all things seem boundaries are developed aries begin to snap back into Polynesian we feel. In most cases we do possible. They feel that they over time and through vari- place; gradually or suddenly, Indonesian these things out of genuine can conquer all obstacles ous phases of an individual’s they fall out of love. Once Micronesian sincerity but, perhaps for and all problems will be life. As individuals grow again they are two separate Melanesian some, what’s mixed in with overcome. To them, the fu- they come to know that individuals.” At this point Native American that feeling is the fear of the ture will be all light. “they are individuals, con- they begin to either dissolve Okinawan ire of the loved one for being This is the experience fined to the boundaries of the ties of their relationship Fijian forgetful (chuckle). that theme love songs, po- their flesh and limits of their or initiate the work of real Generally, the language ems, sonnets, movies, and power. They are isolated loving.” Indian we use on Valentine’s Day stories that frame concepts from others by their indi- Unlike falling in love, Guamian is the language of falling of romantic love and con- vidual identities, boundaries the work of real love is about African in love even though love is, sumer ads that shape the na- and limits.” They are lonely extending or stretching Tongan or should be, the stuff and tion’s psyche. behind their boundaries and Continued on pg.15 Samoan Korean WAIMEA SELF STORAGE OPEN Puerto Rican 7am-9pm Thai Storage Spaces Available DAILY Chinese From 5‘ x 5‘ to 10‘ x 25‘ Japanese Breakfast Portuguese Across from Waimea Airport Lunch Vietnamese Marshallese CALL NOW Dinner Pacific Islander 887-0466 Latino & Filipino Thursday Nights ONE ISLAND Margaret Caravalho Prime Rib Dinner $16.95 ONE PEOPLE Manager CELEBRATING 15-2872 Government Main Road THE UNITY OF P.O. Box 6165 Kamuela, HI 96743 Pahoa • 808-965-1177 OUR COMMUNITY 4 •FEBRUARY THE PARADISE POST WWW.THEPARADISEPOST.COM Honoring Our Host Culture BY Kumu Hula Paul K. Neves CONNECTING CULTURES Unforgettable Events was going through the pa- perwork in 1986 I met Wan- da Mokihana Kaikuaana of Of My Life Keaukaha and it happened get da BeSt local giftS to be really refreshing for January 5, 1990 me. Didn't know if a second at da BeSt priceS! loha readers, marriage was a good idea This year, 2015, I though, so I went to school am will be sharing in Geneva, in 1988-89 to re- about a few awe- ally think it over. I asked her Asome events that I experi- to marry me from my dorm enced so far in my life. They at the Chateau de Bossey were significant enough to in Celigne, Switzerland in recall as I get on in years and 1989. Upon returning the Mamo St. and Kamehameha Ave. in Historic Downtown Hilo time seems to fly by. 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