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Happy to hear all the responses of people's passions.
Need to hear more. I see so many people who are on the board and read the posts but chose not to input. That's ok, but the more Esh, we hear, the happier we will become.
Neshema, she runs with horses, how wonderful. Tortuga is our free spirited dancer.
Jerry, No matter what, they can take away your land, but they can't take away your culture which is stored in your body & frame. Thank you Jerry for sharing your Aloha spirit and your Wahi Pana with us.
I have visited Hawaii from the 70's to last trip in 2007, (I'm due for another) I couldnt believe the park where the shell is, near New Otani, a lot of trees were gone and so many pinapple fields gone. When we drove around the Island,Has it regained the rain??
Is there an active group trying to regain your land???
With all the struggles we have gone thru, everyone at different places in their life and recovery. Don't forget whats important to you.
Bettina
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Travel is a good passion, it's mine too. it keeps you in the state of open mind - open heart!
enjoy the journey, Thanks for sharing. Go go go on girl, full power
other passions that make my heart jump: mountains, walk through the forest, snow...basically everything nature. eating grilled octopus with feet in the sand, reading in a hammock, going crazy laughing with children, being a child myself, dancing and capturing moments in writing, clicking or drawing.... laughing is my passion too.
I'm from Hawaii and miss it so much! And my mom used to live in a condo at the New Otani. Small world.
I love what you said here: "our life does not exist for one man or woman, or one marriage. If it makes you unhappy, find your happiness,
its not found in another person, I know that."
Aloha Sistah...Hele Mai...Hele Ai (come in, come eat) A peha Oi? (How are you...how are you doing). Bettina we would welcome you right off the boat or plane and that goes for anyone else here. Aloha is and means (one way) generosity of spirit and it has no defenses...which means even with those we invite(d) in and who came in and took over our home we have not pushed them out. We are asking them to leave and give our homeland back however it is "our" Aloha Spirit and not theirs. Aloha enables. Lots going on here much excite and much unacceptable. Just for everyone to understand Hawaii is not the 50th state. There never was an annexation treaty before the statehood vote. Our nation was stolen and taken over with out agreement by the american government. Okay Pau, done. I will not rant this side of my existance. Yes since the 1840s, the sugar cane era the local population changed dramatically and many of them stayed to become Hawaiian Aupuni or Nationals. My grandfather was from Portugal and I know nothing about portugese except some of the foods. Food!! love it. I've traveled and mostly back into the Polynesian island system. I've lived in American Samoa, visited Western Samoa, New Zealand and other small Pacific islands. I spent two periods of time on the continent u.s. and my HP told me to come home because my soul/spirit was born here. I don't stand cold or hot very much. I'm a temperate zone kinda person. I love my home and my Ohana...my Hawaiian family/culture. I am politically involved in the return of my Nation this is my Wahi pana...my blessed place. Come anytime. We have Al-Anon members from our original Wednesday Night Turning Point meeting coming "home" on Monday from years away. I can just feel the hugs and Aloha already...so fun!! ((((hugs))))
My REAL passion is horses....My only joy growing up was grooming , training, breaking and either showing or trail riding my horses
If I ever got rich, I would buy some land....then do rescuing of homeless horses....saving lives that other wise would go to slaughter....I would rescue the "place able" ones that I could re-hab to re-home to loving owners...
I would have a few of my own to love...connect with.....groom.....play with....train....ride....enjoy being with their awesome spirits.....
As a native american, (on mother's side) it was as natural to be on a horse as it was to walk...As a toddler, I was already riding....I learned to ride as I learned to be proficient on my own feet.....I learned how to move WITH the animal, to get in sync with the rhythm of the horse....I could shut my eyes and be on top of my horse and know exactly which foot was going to move next....i would train them to respond to voice cues and my hands and my feet, while moving in perfect harmony with the horse as I enjoyed sitting on his/her back.....
I could really go on a tangent here...I still have my training equip. and my tack...grooming equip. too.....its my way of NOT giving up my dream of being w/horses again...
oh yea, I can shut my eyes and see myself on my farm....100 acres....2 pastures 25 acres each....1 pasture for my "homies" and the other for my rescues that I am training so they will be nice pets for their new forever homes.....so with 50 acres for pasture and the barns within, that leaves 50 acres to build my training arena and also to just ride around on my farm, being with my horse and in nature....
I can still smell their scent that is delightful to me...yea, they are a lot of work bc I was a loving, caring owner, but it was ok
I remember in the winters back in new england where I grew up, the snow would get waist high and we had no water pipes at the barn, so we would fill our buckets with , what I did b/c I had to tote those 3 gal buckets about , say 200 feet to the barn...maybe a bit more...my baby brothers would help me fill them but I had to tote them...2 buckets each for up to 4 horses...., I would fill them 1/2 way with hot hot water, then when I got to the barn , I would put snow in the bucket and end up w/a full, cool drinking pail for my horses.....a horse can drink about 15 gallons of water per day, so at night I would make sure they had at least 2 - 3 gal buckets in their stalls, meaning FOR trips back and forth for night then repeat next morning b4 school and of course after school....I didnt' mind it....trudging in waist high snow toting water to my "babies" and I would let them out of their stalls into the paddock and watch them roll and play in the snow....pawing for something edible under the snow, it was grand fun......riding was doable but I had to be careful...I stuck in my own terraine b/c I knew the ground underneath all that snow so I wasn't afraid of a horse stepping in a hole or something, but nevertheless I didn't , of course, ride as much as I did in the warmer times...
I had cousins i would write to , or we wold trade phone calls every now and then and they lived in VA or NC or some other place that wasn't so cold and they would say "hey how deep is the snow???" and I would say "clear up" and they would say "clear up WHAT???" and I would say "clear up to my butt"....and I was not lying...
I am strong to this day from all that hard work...mucking stalls shoveling the waste into a wheel barrow, and plowing through the snow to run like the dickens up the manure pile so as to put the "new stuff" on top.....a truck would come by ea. week and haul off the manure to fertilize their crops with
non snow season was much easier, caring for my pets....I remember the most I had at one time was 2 paints, a chestnut thoroughbred and a black quarter horse......that is quite a bit of turd toting for one small child as myself.....the barn only had 4 stalls, otherwise, I might have had 1 or 2 more.., plus there was the section for the hay and grain....
yea, winter was awful hard work, but I enjoyed it....especially at night when after I "tucked everyone in" for the night, i would climb up on the paddock fence and sit adn listen to the soft snow falling, hitting the tall pine trees that seemed to reach out to "catch" the snowflakes.....It would be bitter cold, and when I went into the barn to check up on my kids, I could see with the front light on, their misty breath coming from their nostrils....their beautiful smell....then I would gaze up at the moon and wonder if other folks in my time zone saw the same moon and could they see THEIR breath when they talked or breathed out....
Those winter nights, sitting on my paddock fence, just listening and smelling the frigidness of winter was an experience....there wasn't the noisiness of crickets chirping or birdies singing, it was just QUIET...like it was meant to be that way to make folks slow down and take notice of whats around them and I did that...I would sit on that fence for a long time...listening...smelling....feeling the frigid cold temperatures and i could actually FEEL the temperatures drop as the night progressed...even grandmother moon looked cold....the manure on the top of the pile would already be partially frozen...
next day, before school and before breakfast, even, I would be toting all those buckets up that slope to the barn from the house, and giving them each a "flake" of hay and a scoop of grain for breakfast....
then clean up and race to catch the school bus with the chains on the tires, rattling down the white, slick, ice frozen pathway that in warmer seasons is a black pavement street....
So I got my tack, equipment, grooming tools in 3 big military duffle bags...I own no saddle...I prefer to use a bareback pad to ride with, there isnt' much but whats in those bags is MINE....mine to look at and I keep it so as to not give up on my dream
I know in my after life when I go over the great divide...i will have a horse or two waiting for me to take me to my place of joy....
WOW , this brings up memories.....I soo miss my equine "kids".....
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My passion is to travel someday too. I want to take a motor home and travel the US. I want to see Mount Rushmore, Niagara Falls, the White House and Carlsbad Caverns. I want to see something in every state in of the union. I even want to leave my motor home on the shores of the pacific ocean and hop a plane to Hawaii.
Alaska is a biggie on my list.
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Speak only when you feel that your words are better than your silence.
I love to travel and have been very fortunate to have the beauty of other places and cultures enrich my life.
Since I was young, I've always wanted to be around horses- as an adult, I've been able to give this to myself as a gift. Even though it's not as perfect a circumstance as it could be, I am very blessed.
I've gained so much from practicing yoga, that I've enrolled and almost half way through teacher training.
I love being outdoors, wooded areas, hiking, skiing, or a still and quiet peaceful moment.
Recently, I've started to cycle and I'm starting to enjoy the cardio benefits as well as general confidence as I improve... perhaps, a budding passion.
Sad reality, Jerry. Funny how the history books like to leave that part you shared out about Hawaii and the government's take-over.
Oh yea, those beautiful people being over run by the govn't............reminds me of my people here...livng in peace w/nature, then like the locust , the euros come and we teach them how to live here, we even let them marry our beautiful maidens...and more euros come...like a big long snake w/no tail...no end to him
suddenly he *needs" our lands b/c he is out growing the east coast...so he *displaces* us or *relocates* us......my ancestors the cherokees lived in GA and SC...the white man came and forced us to march 1700 miles in the winter of 1837-8 and we lost 4,000 of our kind to the cold and starvation, exhaustion...
oh yea, what happend to live and let live???? even then, folks really needed alanon, acoa, coda and probably AA with all the *grog* they liked to drink at evening fires...
sorry, I am being sarcastic, but we did lose 4,000 of our own kind....we thrived, though, we made the best of it on OK and we thrived....my mother was born on reservation, i played there as a child when we would go visit grandaddy, whom my FR/Ger sire hated....it was the first time I heard the "N" word...when my mother wanted to see her dad....
I adored my grandaddy and I forgive him for lying about his race so he could better support his family, but it was wrong to lie....I understand it and forgive it but fact remains , by lying, he dishonored our dead who died in the "trail of tears" march
sorry I didn't mean to get carried away here...my cousins and I are trying to do research on the missing members of our families....the lies, and the "passing for french" a lot of them did it.
my mother did the one right thing by me b4 she passed....she told me the truth about who I was an why I "tanned funny" and why the sire hated her family....she told me how she and her sister went to the indian schools in OK , growing up........she did right by telling me the truth....
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I love to travel. I will be visiting hawaii in october and ireland in nov and germany in dec. Have trips planned for jan, feb and april too . I also love gymnastics. I judge high school and aau. And I love the zoo and volunteer there doing educational stuff for the kids.
thanks for asking about passions.....
