Very early Thursday

dang! i can't believe i'm still up reading journals. 3 more to go! but all so interesting. gotta go to bed soon.

wanted to invite you all to go to my other blog, maoli talk, to listen to my interview of poka and james on "dreaming hawaii". i audio taped an "issues that matter" video segment from tuesday, april 22. it went all over the place, but eventually it got to a description of the stages of decolonization that poka has on his website: 1) rediscovery and recovery, 2) mourning, 3) dreaming, and 4) commitment [http://www.opihi.com/sovereignty/colonization.htm]. i think we're in all phases at once. my students are in both phase 1 and 2. most of us are in phase 2 and 3. a very small minority may be in phase 4. anyhow, the discussion was moving toward the invitation to participate in dialogue and to 'dream' the nation as best case scenario. the question always is: if not this (what we have now), then what? all the kingdom advocates, especially those that have already created their governing structure and filled their positions, seem to be already rolling along. one wonders what they might want with the rest of us. the upshot of the talk was that we ought to be having these circles of discussion to dream what we want to dream and to be the masters of our own fates. in other words, if we go down, we ought to be able to say that we made bad choices. as it is, we've been going down because we've been impacted upon. we inherited a situation not of our own creation. so maybe it's time to have that discussion to figure out what we want, rather than just what we don't want. and then take responsibility for its success or failure.

it takes a few minutes to download the audio, a 58 minute program. but i'll hope you'll listen anyway and give input.