Aloha 'oe to a great activist and a great Hawaiian, Marion Kelly.
Tonight's service at Church of the Crossroads looked like a forest, with koa trees, ohia lehua, and huge hapu'u fern forming a kipu'u.
The lovely and brilliant Marion Kelly was a steadfast progressive and will be missed very much. From Malama Makua, protesting the wars, protecting the environment, Save our Surf, nurturing the young Pacific Island graduate students for generations, and being a beacon of ku'e (resistance) for her whole life, she is loved. For her brilliant academic and field research on this aina, she is respected and cherished.
Aloha 'oe, Marion. The room was filled with people who hold you in their hearts.
That is how to inspire and move change in this world. Ku'e!
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Aloha 'oe Marion Kelley!
I did work there a couple times helping to get it in shape for World Wetlands Day two years ago. Except for the mosquitos it's a wonderful place. Do you know Doc Burrows by any chance?
Good sense of humor too.
The amount of strength it took to get all those rock features in place is incredible I really love the stairway there going down to the water line and then the stick walkways anchored by water lilies in the marsh.
I've got some funny stories about that place.
My coworker was an horrid alcoholic and had developed an ulcer at the ripe age of 21 - we do out there to work one day and he's near "dying" - he can't keep up with the Kailua Hawaiian Civic Club members who are visiting and so he drops out of beside the trail. Coming back my supervisor and a couple of the HCC members are discussing his plight - well we'll just get "the sick one" some noni...and he asks what's that and is told how bad it tastes and "the sick one" just has this oh no face on his look. It was pretty ripe.
There are a lot of car break-ins there so we never left anything in the State vehicles when we went there to work for Doc and survey with Martha Yent - always broken glass on the ground and what not. When my car got stolen and stripped - the thief drove it with no seats in the vehicle to Kapaa Rd and dumped it. I went out there to retrieve it and sure enough there's an old white gentleman who's always working there and he comes up to the HPD officer to report another car break-in.
It's a special place 
