Whoever and wherever you are, around the world and across the Universe, know that you are warmly welcomed.

I invite you to browse, linger, catch glimpses of a life that is perfectly imperfect with its highs and lows, joys and woes, beauty and ugliness, good and bad, mundaneness and sacred and points betwixt and between. 

Perhaps, herein, there's a smile, groan, lesson, or a shared experience for you. ~AU

Most Recent Journal Entries:

Life has been a bit hectic of late, and I have found a more efficient way to post tidbits of my life here:

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• Birds of a Feather Flock Together: Ka `Olelo Hawai`i, September 1, 2003
  
  

• Epilogue:  Laki, Heaven's Sweet, Smiling, Shining Angel, August 2003
  
  

• A Lei Hali`a
  The Association at the BB Discovery Center Gala, July 2003
  
  

• Maui Lavender - Nânea a`o Kula, July 2003
  
  

• A Tribute to Moe Keale: Web Site, Late June 2003 
  
  

• A Tribute to Moe Keale: Journal entry, 6/21/03
  
  

• Heaven's Reject:  Mid-June 2003
  
  

• Magnificent Obsession: Early June 2003
  
  

• Tom's 70th, April 2003
  
  

• Lilo & Stitch Review
  
  

• The Daffodil Garden: Spring, 2003
  
  

• 'Da Hawai`i Club, Fall, 2002

  - The Flourishing of Hawaiian Song and Dance 
  in Southern California Backyards
  
  - The Power of Words in Hawaiian Songs
  
  

• The Art of Marriage: Sunday, 6/16/02
  
  >>  A Web Photo Album: 
  Kristen & Sean, Together
  

• A Wedding Reminiscence: Saturday, 6/15/02

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, "Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?" Actually who are you not to be?

You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.

We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's in everyone, and, as we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

~ M. Williamson

"The only gift is a portion of thyself..."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson