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I’m in Honolulu where I lived as a young bride, where my daughter was born and where I first worked in television (for CBS.) Ah times change!
The high-rise canyons of apartments and hotels blot the landscape in Waikiki but surprising, our old apartment under Diamond Head is unchanged – turquoise railing around the lanais (balconies) still in place. While I’ve felt very nostalgic because some things don’t change . . . the softness of the tradewinds in the evening, the wonderful warm days, the clearness of the sunrise and the drifting misty clouds over the peaks of the Pali and most of all the friendliness of the people . Call it progress call it exploitation it can’t be undone. It’s been interesting visiting friends in the suburbs though these too have quadrupled in size, and I wonder at the stores outside the malls where most are designer emporiums catering to the wealthy. How odd to see the fall winter fashions from Prada, Gucci, etc etc. But strolling through Kapiolani Park on Saturday looking for the farmers markets we came across a hula show where locals came to strut their stuff in the old fashioned bandstand . .. women hula dancers, troupes of young wahines dancing to a local band of steel guitars, singers and drummers. An old timer nudged me – ‘You don’t see entertainment like this in Waikiki.’ How right he was. Everyone was wearing aloha shirts, and the older women still wore the old style missionary muu-muus with battered straw hats ringed with flowers. There was a stall urging Hawaiians to register to vote and bring “Justice to Hawaii”…. An independence movement where the quarter of a million native Hawaiians want to manage and control their own destiny and reclaim all the prime real estate held by the US military in Hawaii.
A visit to the old Bishop Museum turned up some wonderful stories of the history of Hawaii. I especially liked the huge solid old olo boards the Hawaiian kings and chieftans rode in the surf at Waikiki. A sport they enjoyed centuries before it was made popular by the likes of Duke Kahanemoku and Tom Blake.
It’s going to be hard to leave here.
Cheers
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