Voices from Hawai‘i — KR

"It wasn't my decision. It was an invitation to me."

At Ho'omau Ranch on Hawaii Island, Irene Taira sat down with SITH Representative KR (Kamaile Rafaelovich).

KR and Irene Taira smiling with a horse at Ho'omau Ranch

It begins in the mist at Ho'omau Ranch. KR says she was once invited by the ranch itself: "Become this ranch's person."

Her days with the ranch began with a welcome from red and yellow lehua, the same flowers as in the painting in the late Morrnah Nalamaku Simeona's office.

A red lehua blossomA yellow lehua blossom

And to this day, she says, she has kept stopping and cleaning.

There was a court case, and she could have lost all her money. If she had had to make a choice there, KR says, it would have been to stay home. But instead of choosing for herself, KR decided:

"I think I'll take the invitation. Because it's so exciting."

Like freshly baked natural-yeast bread, we keep changing moment by moment where we cannot see.

"Your Ho'oponopono today is different than it was yesterday."

Finally, a picnic mat that turned up brand new, the answer to towels that never dried in Palolo, and meeting people we find difficult. After cleaning for three days, KR called back, and they both started laughing.

"You found a treasure. Just clean up the treasure and it's there."

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