Hawai‘i Literature & Art
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He shuffles off down the street, looking for another safe space, another place to lay down and rest his tired and broken body and his weeping soul. He puts his meager belongings into his ragged and dirty backpack. Slowly he folds up his mat. You don’t need to watch me, I’ll go. I’m going,…
My brain felt active in every cell of my body. After that first day, and with daily practice, my mind became as sharp as a needle’s point. It is the first step to accessing emotional memories and imagining deeply. Relaxation is the key to genuine expression. Be very definite and precise, not general. Strasberg encourages…
“Assistance, please.” A couple of individuals pointed electronic devices in his direction, but the visitor remained locked in time and space. “I need to leave. The guide said that everyone would be well fed, comfortably housed, and pursuing interests which contribute to the greater community. I was promised deep conversations with sensitive, intellectual beings enjoying…
“Perhaps,” she says, “that young man had been in a great deal of trouble in the past, and Doyle was trying to determine a recommendation for sentencing.” “I couldn’t imagine,” I say, “why he would bother himself with gathering information about a case that seemed so minor.” He’d asked me to recount the…
Your soul may not yet yearn for it, but it will remain preserved in your imagination. Not be be outdone, cockroach juice can be boiled and brewed–served with ice and taste like prawns. Haneru means jump. Here’s news for you: a pest release from Japan– Haneru beer made from cricket broth. Worried about how it…
Mom never learned to make tempura in her native Japan Like her maki rolls, she learned to make them from Japanese wives married to American men. Japanese chefs in Japan spent years apprenticing before touching the batter or fry oil. In comparison, Mom’s batter was more golden yellow not pale blond, shrimp, green beans, sweet…
Aloha #WriterMonday. On my side of O‘ahu there was no storm at all. Today’s #WritingPrompt is the last July one for the monthly Bamboo Shoots Writing Contest: police So, the contest prompts for July so far are water masks juice freedom soda police Use any of these prompts to inspire a piece of writing, and…
Aloha #WriterMonday. I hope you all had a good weekend. Today is Monday, so this #WritingPrompt is a Bamboo Shoots Writing Contest prompt: water So, the contest prompts for July so far are water masks juice freedom soda Use any of them to inspire a piece if writing, short or long, a sentence or a…
Aloha, and a very Happy Monday to you : ) A new writing prompt for the month will appear every Monday. July writing prompts so far are soda freedom juice masks police (Jim’s suggestion for today) Use any July writing prompt to inspire a piece of writing, short or long, a haiku, a sentence or…
After that fall I thought going to the beach by myself was a great way to escape from everything. Almost, except, you know, it’s just you go there wearing your blue corduroy board-shorts and blue Maui Divers tank-top, spread your blue beach towel set up your blue sand-chair under a blue sky, sit silently staring at…