Happy Fourth of July

Happy fourth of july, as you may know, "Independence Day".... i have always known the 4th of July, 1776 as the birthday of the united states of america, when a document known as The Declaration of Independence was adopted by the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia, thus creating along with other symbols and texts, a written covenant, a "national imaginary". Here is an excerpt from this beautiful piece of writing:

"When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. "

I texted my dear friend Rachel in Northern California, she and her family had just been at a parade to celebrate the holiday. My brother Maui was watering maize in Salt Lake City. I am with the Homesteaders in Hau'ula, getting ready to eat lots of good me'a kai, am watching a Steven Seagal movie marathon on cable and just chilling before I leave TONIGHT to Aotearoa... and then on Monday July 7th arriving in Tongatapu...Can't wait!!!

The Steven Seagal movie is about a couple guys escaping from prison, and its long, and melodramatic, and what I'd expect on Spike TV! A whole station dedicated to B movies and B advertisements of "things you don't need" says Kat!

Where I long to be....Just "be"! Home is where the heart is...and other thoughts! My brain is on fire, and my legs getting numb...itching to go, and still stuff to pack...what stuff, that rules the senses. My stomach is still recovering slowly from the bottle of wine I drank yesterday to make a think twice decision: once while sober, once while not, and see which one rules!! Unless one gets the same answer twice, its not a think twice decision...Well I read that in one of these therapy books that lines 2 whole rows of Mom's bookshelf, and I believe it was called "The Road Less Traveled part II"...by that one guy...

So the journey continues. I am so excited right now, and butterflies in my stomach...must go eat..

I rifled through a boxes of family history documents here at Malu Malu 'o Paini, finding letters, which will frame up my autobiography....and that's pretty much what I did on my summer month in Hau'ula....besides hiking, swimming and not a whole lot else!