My mom’s annual #peony bouquet.  Just curious, what are your mom’s favorite flowers? #MothersDay #flora #ohana

My mom’s annual #peony bouquet. Just curious, what are your mom’s favorite flowers? #MothersDay #flora #ohana

Picking up some of my mom’s favorite flowers for #MothersDay #peony #flora

Picking up some of my mom’s favorite flowers for #MothersDay #peony #flora

islanddancer:

Ho’omaika’i ‘ana to Miss Aloha Hula 2013 Manalani Mili Hokoana English :)

Congratulations to the Maui wahine who took 1st and 2nd place at the Merrie Monarch’s Miss Aloha Hula competition last night!  Here is the hula auana from the winner, Manalani Mili Hokoana English from Halau Na Lei Kaumaka O Uka, who brought the title back to Maui.

(If you can’t view the video, click here.)


Ka’i (Entrance):  E Ku’u Morning Dew

E kuʻu morning dew (My morning dew)
Alia mai, alia mai (Wait a moment)
Maliu mai ʻoe (Pay attention)
I kaʻu e hea nei (To what I call out)
E kali mai ʻoe (Wait)Iaʻu nei, iaʻu nei (For me, for me)
ʻO wau iho nō (I remain yours)
Me ke aloha (With love)

Wehe mai ke alaula (Dawn breaks)
ʻOliliko nei līhau (And the wet dew sparkles)
E hoʻohehelo ana (Causing a rosy color)
I neia papālina (On these cheeks)
I uka o Mānā (Up at Mānā)

I ka ʻiu uhiwai (In the mist-shrouded highland)
Ma laila no kāua (There, you and I)
E pili mau ai (Will remain forever)
Ma laila no kāua (There, you and I)
E pili mau ai (Will remain forever)


Mele Hula:  E Pili Mai

(Only the original first verse is listed here.  In December 2012, the composer of this mele, Larry Lindsey Kimura, the uncle of Manalani Mili Hokoana English, wrote two more verses so his niece could use it in the competition.)

ʻAuhea wale ana ʻoe
Kuʻu lei o ka pō
Pō anu hoʻokahi nō au
Sweetheart mine
E pili mai
Inā ʻo ʻoe a ʻo au
ʻIke i ke ahi o Makana
He makana ia na ke aloha
No na kau a kau
ʻO ʻoe aʻo au
Sweetheart mine
E pili mai

Where are you
My sweetheart of the night
The night is cold and I am alone
Sweetheart mine
Come to me
If you and I are together
We’ll know the fires of Makana
It would be a gift given of love
For all time
You and I
Sweetheart mine
Come to me

The 50th annual Merrie Monarch festival began this week in Hilo, Hawai’i.  Yesterday was the Miss Aloha Hula Competition.  Here is one of my favorite hula kahiko of the night by Jasmine Kaleihiwa Dunlap of Halau ‘O Kamuela.

(If you can’t view the video, click here.)

#EasterVigil at St. Catherine’s.  Two of my friends were Confirmed, and one of them was also baptized tonight.  Welcome #neophytes!  “This is the night that with a pillar of fire banished the darkness of sin…This is the night, when Christ broke the prison-bars of death and rose victorious from the underworld…This is the night of which is written: The night shall be as bright as day, dazzling is the night for me, and full of gladness.”  - #Exsultet #Ecclesia

#EasterVigil at St. Catherine’s. Two of my friends were Confirmed, and one of them was also baptized tonight. Welcome #neophytes! “This is the night that with a pillar of fire banished the darkness of sin…This is the night, when Christ broke the prison-bars of death and rose victorious from the underworld…This is the night of which is written: The night shall be as bright as day, dazzling is the night for me, and full of gladness.” - #Exsultet #Ecclesia

tonganswaggr:

#samoa #polynesia #faasamoa  (Taken with instagram)

tonganswaggr:

#samoa #polynesia #faasamoa (Taken with instagram)

808thuglife:

Oahu chileed? Sheup. Cheehee!! (:

808thuglife:

Oahu chileed? Sheup. Cheehee!! (:



Top 10 Goofy Foots | #5 Matt Wilkinson
Photo: Ted Grambeau

Top 10 Goofy Foots | #5 Matt Wilkinson

Photo: Ted Grambeau

goldfishkiss:

Here’s a tip: Try replacing love with your name in the verse…Helps me remind myself of what I need to work on.
Now, go have a LOVELy Valentine’s Day. Dangit.

goldfishkiss:

Here’s a tip: Try replacing love with your name in the verse…Helps me remind myself of what I need to work on.

Now, go have a LOVELy Valentine’s Day. Dangit.