Author: Dawn
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Weatherball and Blue Sky moment or, When is a poem a musubi?
Aloha everyone, One of the enduring parts of Aunty’s Building the Beloved Community practice that stuck with folks, even if they only attended a session or two, is the Weatherball (or Weather Ball) and Blue Sky moment. These have become a way of opening circles around the world. Aunty always prefaced this practice the first time by… Read more
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Of Kings and Queens
With excerpts from the poem “Hawai‘i Pono‘ī” by Aunty Pua “On Friday, August 7, 1987Forty-three kanakas from Wai‘anae,In a deluxe, super-duper, air-conditioned, tinted-glasstourist-kind bus,Headed to Honolulu on an excursion to the Palace,‘Iolani Palace…” Aloha mai kākou e nā hulu manu like ‘ole, greetings amongst us birds of many feathers. Today, the world burns and the… Read more
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Calling the Circle
Calling the CircleIt has always been scaryto step into the circle of firelight,to show up in the company of strangers,to ask for entrance or to offer it. Our hearts race Will we have the courage to see each other?Will we have the courage to see the world?The risks we take in the twenty first centuryAre… Read more
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Mondays with Aunty Pua
Aloha mai kākou. Aloha, hi. Happy new year. So many blue sky moments so far in 2025. I am Dawn and I am creating an email series/blog/circle to share stories, poems, principles, quotes and thoughts from my friend and mentor, Aunty Pua Burgess. She passed last year, and since 2019, groups of us would meet with her to… Read more