A year ago I made an episode for my And still the waters rise podcast that offered my thoughts on racism and violence in America and its connection to the colonial-opression experienced in Hawaiʻi. As one year later, there were bombings in Bahgdad, the mass shooting in Orlando, and #BlackLivesMatter was still a necessary movement, I took up the mic again. This time I chose to express myself through spoken word poetry.
However, as I have new opportunities opening up for me in the year ahead, I have known for some time that I must face these challenges and determine the ways in which I will navigate them more successfully. Not only is it critical to complete a project, from a spiritual perspective it is vital that the people who contributed their time and mana are reciprocated. Offering them a means to have a reproduction of the work, as a touchstone of their experience, is important.
Read MoreClick on the link to view a short video called the TATTOO PRINCIPLE that offers a bit of inspiration to stay the course when life asks you to face your deepest fears.
