The Rose Ensemble was formed in 1996 in St Paul Minnesota. They have recorded a couple of albums of traditional (old) Hawaiian music. It’s really good. They did their homework. Na Mele Hawaii
The truth is virtually the entire executive branch of the government are immigrants. Native Americans and Hispanics are natives of North America. African Americans were brought here illegally and also now considered natives. We’re deporting the wrong people.
The Charmarita by Sonny Chillingworth is a Portuguese folk song that no one can find the lyrics to. The story is someone gave it to Sonny handwritten. He popularized it in Hawaii. He’s not even Portuguese, He’s Spanish/Hawaiian
We went for a morning walk on the old Walua road trail again. This dry stream bed must be torrent when we get the rare heavy rain
I have use Mailbox.org for my email back end for many years. Based in Germany, secure. Rather than using an app for email, just using a web app of their site. Simple and fast.
Comprehension
When you truly understand something, you can express it at any level of detail while maintaining coherence.
The master can provide the one-sentence version, the paragraph version, and the chapter version, all of which tell the same story at different resolutions. The novice can only repeat what they’ve memorized at one resolution.
I have this hourglass type timer for French press coffee. Haven’t used it in while as we do pour over in the morning. Bringing it back out to play


Turn it up.
Randy Lorenzo. So talented and so much aloha. Got to know him through the years.
The post sunset sunset. It’s heading to Wake island. A former fuel stop for the Pan Am clipper planes.