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RE: Introduce yourself - Johnd - 09-26-2014
quote:punagirl. My parents were holocaust survivors, actually them two our of 14 in the family. I myself not American born and not haole. Reverse racism is racism. I don't need lessons, I always respect others. When I go to Germany, the germans usually do a lot of apologizing, I don't hold a chip on my shoulder. But on the other hand I see that folk in this islands just like across Polynesia always expect to get something out of the next ship on the horizon. Trust me when I say that for 20 years I was the most culturally sensitive person regardless. No more. I have seen throughout all these years people coming to this island with dreams and every penny they owned, and all they left was a clearing on an overgrown lot. Folk are sold an idea grown out of a marketing stunt, in my opinion it will be more honest to tell incoming folk what to expect here, besides pulling magical stories out of thin air.
Originally posted by mermaid53
quote:Welcome to reverse racism. Now you know how it feels for non whites all over the world. You've experienced a rare lesson which will now give you insight that most won't experience outside of a white world. I have lived all over the world and seen racism in all colors and have been at the brunt of some of it depending what country I lived in. It cultivated tolerance, flexibility, strength and made me a well rounded person. Good luck and happy life to you and your family no matter where you are living.
Originally posted by Johnd
Hello everyone, my name is John and with my wife Nancy we count 28 years in Hawaii. Althought we lived mostly in a small "sugar" village in the Hamakua, we have been in Puna for the last 8. Raised our kids here, in those days when a white boy and girl would come home everyday from school with bruises from punches, and just very few local kids would be allowed by their families to come to our birthday parties. Nancy and I farm our land and like to think that we independent of the grid; we threat lightly on this earth. We grow food and orchids in our lovely place. Nature itself is the only thing that still keep us here, but we are getting old and have too many booboos and sometimes the racist rants start to get under our skin, so we have decided to throw the towel in and retire in lovely Norfolk in the UK. It is going to be hard leaving behind the land, and the peace we have here, but having a decent hospital and medical care available to us has become an important necessity. Before we both get old and craggy we want to live in a cosmopolitan society and have access to a wide variety of options like municipal running water, a decent public transport and a pro active community where we are not called "foreigners" when we park in the "wrong" place. Unfortunately, our kids have no desire to come back to Hawaii given their the bad treatment they endured for years. One is a scientist living in the Ecuadorian Amazonia, and the other lives in Paris working as a graphic designer. We hoped that they would want to preserve the land that we worked so hard for all this years, but they could not care less to even visit this place. Several folk have made offers to buy our place but we keep making excuses to elongate our time here. No regrets, bittesweat memories, and whole lot of hard work ,our dear coqui frogs singing the night, our wonderful neigbors in Puna... all die hard haoles with dreams....which we dearly hope they become true to them.
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RE: Introduce yourself - TomK - 09-28-2014
A flame war on an "introduce yourself" thread. Who'd have thunk it?
RE: Introduce yourself - punagirl - 09-29-2014
Why are you throwing me into this? I started this thread years ago but haven't commented it on it for some time. Don't throw my name in the mix.
Atlanta/Pahoa
RE: Introduce yourself - unknownjulie - 09-29-2014
Thankyou JohnD for your honesty!
RE: Introduce yourself - Jaylon - 10-11-2016
Oh, excellent. Now that this thread has had two years to cool down... Aloha! My name is Jeremy. A couple of months ago I moved from Kainaliu to South Point Road. Somehow, convinced my partner, Carol, to move here from New York. And now we're fighting vines that creep along the ground and tug on tree branches. Anyone know if we have to? Do those vines choke out trees or live symbiotically with them?
Mahalo for your help.
Here For Aloha. Here for Pele.
RE: Introduce yourself - leilaniguy - 10-11-2016
There are probably a thousand different vines on this island, all can be invasive. What does it look like? flowers? size of leaf? Does it stink, give you a rash?
RE: Introduce yourself - Jaylon - 10-11-2016
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Originally posted by leilaniguy
There are probably a thousand different vines on this island, all can be invasive. What does it look like? flowers? size of leaf? Does it stink, give you a rash?
Aloha! Thanks for responding. Small light green leaves. Thin light green stalks. I haven't seen any flowers on them. No allergic reaction and they don't smell.
Here For Aloha. Here for Pele.
RE: Introduce yourself - Punatic007 - 10-12-2016
As a general rule vines will eventually weaken or kill your other plants if you let the vines climb all over them.
Gardening is high maintenance on the Big Isle, but you can get fresh flowers, fruits, veges and awesome beauty looking out your windows year round from your efforts.
If you are a gardener you are in paradise.
RE: Introduce yourself - geochem - 10-12-2016
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Originally posted by Jaylon
Aloha! Thanks for responding. Small light green leaves. Thin light green stalks. I haven't seen any flowers on them. No allergic reaction and they don't smell.
I would recommend that you check with the West Hawaii Master Gardners: http://www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/UHMG/WestHI/index.asp
Not sure what their phone line hours are, but the East Hawaii group takes calls from folks needing just the kind of information you are looking for. As leilaniguy says, there are a huge number of different invasive vines on the island and it takes some real detective work to figure out what you are dealing with. But the wet side of the island typically has one group of vines and the dry side has a completely different set - which is why I recommend the West Hawaii MG group...
RE: Introduce yourself - Jaylon - 10-17-2016
Mahalo for all your help. There's now another vine that has what look like purple grapes on it. Since it's climbing up a banyan I think I'll let it play out. Who knows? Maybe we end up with grapes? Or poison. One of the two. If you don't hear from me again....
Here For Aloha. Here for Pele.