Live 'Ahupua'a!


Living ahupua'a today is about actually being on the land. rather than just driving from one place to another and living only in our house and yard, from time to time, and more and more all the time, we need to get out and walk around our neighborhood, and our watershed, and notice how winds blows, and how water flows, and what grows. we patiently get to know the land, and it slowly reveals itself. it responds, and tells its story, which is also that of the kupuna who walked and worked the land before, and the gifts they left behind: na pohaku, na meakanu, na inoa, na mo'olelo, na ho'ailona - the stones, the plants, the names, the stories, the signs. When we begin to see these things, then we can begin to know how to work with the land. And living 'ahupua'a also means living and working with our neighbors. laulima, doing projects together that we all benefit from, sharing knowledge, cultivating trust, building community, sharing good feelings among one another, being in service to the land together. then we begin to actually live in the ahupua'a we live in.

Live 'Ahupua'a!


Posted: Tue - May 23, 2006 at 11:35 PM    
   
 
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