Amazing how quiet the multitude of viewers Compared to the works that speak to us Each visitor drawn to something somewhere here This woman called to that painting That man to this one beckoned We are all ears, and eyes, and awed mute tongues The only sound’s the shuffle of the masses’ feet While everywhere…

Aloha kākou , I’ve got one more story in me for Hawaiian History Month. An excerpt from Hannah Grace: A Second-Generation Missionary’s Daughter “One day, after the rains, I felt I had to leave the congregation and my family. It wasn’t who I was anymore, who I became. I wanted to live with the kanaka……

Aloha BR ʻohana and readers, This is Hawaiian History Month. I often ask myself, what do I know about our monarchs? How did they shape our history? How do our history books shape them? This is my manaʻo. We Five Kings: Nā Kamehameha ʻElima ʻEkahi The legend, the conqueror, the naʻi aupuni, filled our history…