I’ve been so busy I forgot to share with you my amazing experience at TEDx Maui earlier this month. I chose to forego planning my talk/ performance and instead walked onstage empty-minded. I was scared to be without a game plan, but I faced my fear head-on and trusted in my abilities and the abundance [...]

My dear friend, mentor and kupuna, Hawaiian musician Braddah Smitty has departed his kino (body). Uncle Smitty, I love you. The times we shared will stay with me always. You taught me the most important thing in life: Mahalo ke Akua (thank you to the Source of Creation). Give my aloha to Uncle Sonny, Pops, [...]

In a culture that has experienced so many transformations, expanding through assimilation and contracting under suppression, where language has been altered and often forgotten, where values have been buried with past generations, where a once strictly sustainable and natural way of life has become mere antiquity, there is one thing that lives on undistorted and [...]