Skip to main content

Reading Signs

 

Photo by Brent Keane


6/3/24

The first sign.

On Sunday the earthquakes started along Kilauea

4.0 on the surface, but  20 miles down the road in Hilo,

only a community alert on my husbandʻs phone 

gave us any indication that Pele was waking up from nap.


The second sign. 

On Monday morning, during a 4 am Zoom class,

Lava, Pele, was fountaining out of an old rift zone

Her glow calling locals and tourists alike out of bed like a siren

luring sailors onto her rocks.

By 10 am she was done,

leaving only a shower of sulfuric smoke to mark her path

across the new black pahoehoe.

Third sign. On Monday evening, Kanehekili,

brother to Pele and Hiʻiakaikapoliopele,

born from the mouth of Haumea

rolls into Waiakea and Hilo bringing his thunder, lightning, rain.

The sky lights up the Panaewa forest outside my home

rain stomping on our totan roof and waking my moʻo

who calls out for me as I try to compose this poem. 

----------------------

Anarchy - non recognition of authority or other controlling system

Education anarchy pushes back against the authoritarian

    corporate structures

    standardized curriculum

    definition of success and thriving, challenges, barriers, obstacles, deficiencies, "readiness"

    as defined by the OTHERs

Anarchist  as the lava that is Pele, devourer, creator, contemporary, heat bringer, kupuna

Anarchy as Pele manifested into heat and vog, sulfur and rock, rivers of fire, stone thrower, bomb maker.


Pono - moral, upright, righteous, excellent, sustaining, survivance

fairly small words that explode with the possibility for hulihia and hoʻoulu

Pono as Hiʻiaka, Hiʻiakaikapoliopele, younger sister, brought as an egg in the bosom of Pele

The life bringer, gardener, surfer, dancer, peace maker


Pono anarchism  as a hula sustained by love and rage

Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Kino (an indigenous logic model): post 1 of 4

Passion I have. What I need is to practice my elevator speeches, those short informative program synopses that can be done in the time it takes to ride the elevator.  Of course it will take me 4 posts. Post 1: The honua: building on solid ground The Alana culture-based education course is graphically depicted by the above logic model. The honua (green box), the earth, represents the mo'ok ūauhau, the geneology of this program that informs and guides the building of this course. Dr. Shawn Kanaʻiaupuni and her team lay the foundation for culture-based education (CBE) modeling and immersion within the course. Dr. Walter Kahumoku and Keiki Kawaiʻaeʻa, in consultation with Dr. Bernice McCarthy (4Mat) bring to the geneology the work of moenahā, a curriculum planning concept based on the way kupuna taught. Makawalu, literally eight eyes, is a concept practiced by Kaʻimipono Kaiwi and her teachers at Kamehameha Kapālama to encourage multiple perspectives in the standards-b
Post a Comment
Read more

5 things that teachers do when they are in all-day workshops

1. Listen attentively for 10 minutes Presenters: welcome to your worst teaching nightmare. Teachers learn how to be antsy from their students. If you have a lot of middle school teachers, expect them to act like middle schoolers, ADHD disorders and all. You have 10 minutes to hook us and we want to get up, move and be active every half hour. 2. Talk to our neighbor while the presenter is still talking This practice is a natural way for teachers to use each other as a sounding board for the connections they are making to their own teaching (or they're just gossiping). If you can't tell the difference between productive noise and idle gossip, you need to go back to the classroom and practice. 3. Text and read posts When speakers talk about another author, or another concept, we get on our smart phones and look up the links so we can expand our knowledge immediately. (Or we're blogging or catching up on our email). Don't be offended. Only kick us out if we don't realiz
2 comments
Read more

The Last Teacher

  6/4/24 Anna's last day was Friday, May 31, 2024 She collected all of her gifts and notes from her students Took pictures with her seniors who she had as freshmen four years ago Turned in her keys and walked away from her Georgia classroom made up of predominantly  black and brown students  who needed her to stay. She is not (really) leaving because of the constant shift of politics/policies/procedures of her school district She survived that. She is not (really) leaving because she suddenly lost her colleague and mentor last year, her marigold. She survived that. She is not (really) leaving because of the overwhelming needs of her students  Who continue to need her even after they have left her class.  She did this tearfully because she was both too empty and too full to stay another year. She is going to graduate school for counseling in the fall Her next dream is to do horse therapy for children and young adults. She sees this as a failure on her part.  She could not stay in th
Post a Comment
Read more