Penmanship 1. My father had the most beautiful signature. Driven by compulsion, he made fast little circles in the air above the paper with his pencil, the lead he wet with his tongue. The motion had the same spin as the red wind on the cane roads that picked off hats and bent the grass…
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Bamboo Ridge Press has been digging through the old website database to unearth past blog stories from our talented ʻohana. In this heartfelt narrative, Marie Hara, the former Board President and cherished friend of Bamboo Ridge Press, takes us on a nostalgic journey back to her childhood in Kapa‘au on Hawaii island (affectionately known as…