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Aloha Ahi Ahi UFOhana,
We will be gathering at Ounces Outdoors this Saturday 5p-8p instead of our usual 11am meeting time and place.
However, we will be holding a Lei Making class at Vendola Cafe at 11am. Please consider joining us and making a Lei that you can proudly wear at the Ounces Kanikapila. That is, unless you want to wear your Rabbit Ears?
You can check on the details for both events here.
Hope to see you at both!
Below, images from Marty and Don. Our intrepid traveler who are heading home from Budapest. Nice stickers!
Have a safe trip home Marty and Don! Thanks for the photos. See you at Ounces!
Below, click below to view images from last Saturday’s Vanikapila.
I want to share the following . . . a friend of mine shared this with me, too profound not to share.
Pope Francis wrote this in the Hospital. ❤️
“The walls of hospitals have heard more honest prayers than churches…
They have witnessed far more sincere kisses than those in airports…
It is in hospitals that you see a homophobe being saved by a gay doctor.
A privileged doctor saving the life of a beggar…
In intensive care, you see a Jew taking care of a racist…
A police officer and a prisoner in the same room receiving the same care…
A wealthy patient waiting for a liver transplant, ready to receive the organ from a poor donor…
It is in these moments, when the hospital touches the wounds of people, that different worlds intersect according to a divine design. And in this communion of destinies, we realize that alone, we are nothing.
The absolute truth of people, most of the time, only reveals itself in moments of pain or in the real threat of an irreversible loss.
A hospital is a place where human beings remove their masks and show themselves as they truly are, in their purest essence.
This life will pass quickly, so do not waste it fighting with people.
Do not criticize your body too much.
Do not complain excessively.
Do not lose sleep over bills.
Make sure to hug your loved ones.
Do not worry too much about keeping the house spotless.
Material goods must be earned by each person—do not dedicate yourself to accumulating an inheritance.
You are waiting for too much: Christmas, Friday, next year, when you have money, when love arrives, when everything is perfect…
Listen, perfection does not exist.
A human being cannot attain it because we are simply not made to be fulfilled here.
Here, we are given an opportunity to learn.
So, make the most of this trial of life—and do it now.
Respect yourself, respect others. Walk your own path, and let go of the path others have chosen for you.
Respect: do not comment, do not judge, do not interfere.
Love more, forgive more, embrace more, live more intensely!
And leave the rest in the hands of the Creator.”
—Pope Francis
And as she said and I agree, “Gives me some hope for humanity after what happened at the Filipino festival in Vancouver, so sad for the people who were killed or hurt. Prayers to them.”
Let’s all pray for more peace sanity in this country . . . and the world . . . pule no ka maluhia.
Carolyn’s back home now from her first round of treatment, she’s very tired and a little rough from the effects. But still the fighter that we’ve But Ken is with her, keeping her spirits up and attending to her needs. Keep her in your prayers and sending healing mana her way.
UkEkU
as we slowly swing,
forever in the balance,
time will show us all.
Mahalo Nui Loa!
-=SqL+Nohea+Jake=-
:EOT
