People watching @ Island Naturals

[Wao nahele kane]

Kelena,
That description takes me all the way back to the 1960's, the Seattle Pike Street market. The only thing missing was the additional stench of patchouli.

[coastal]

@rocket man. I grew up in Cupertino as well. Right around the corner from DeAnza College. Apricot orchards they were. Mariani was the family who owned the land that Apple HQ is on now. Grew up in 60s and 70s too. Small world.

[malolo]

Frankly, I'm surprised Russell has yet to add a solar-heated showering-facility.
Were such a thing to become a reality, re-election would be a cinch!

[Todd H]

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Originally posted by Kelena

So I went to Island Naturals today...

I also was able to confirm some of my initial observations. Inside, were more a number of spacey people that were sometimes transfixed by what they were looking at. They were so transfixed they did not make room as you tried to pass by. Mixed in with the smell of warm curry was just a hint of body odor. Any deodorant sold there is just taking up space. No one uses it. I think soap is frowned on, too. An otherwise adorable toddler who needed a good scrubdown headed in my general direction.
As I left, I saw someone I know at the picnic tables. He is very eccentric but quite kind and intelligent and was having an early dinner. I don't know what it is about the Natch but it seems to draw some quintessentially Puna characters. I was there, too and I think I count.

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Kelena - Thanks for the recon mission to Island Naturals...too funny! Have you (or anyone else on Punatalk) been to the Saturday SPACE Market? How does it compare/contrast with the aforementioned market in Pahoa?

Todd

[kalakoa]

SPACE market feels like stepping through a spacetime rift ... suddenly you're in Santa Cruz.

[Kelena]

I haven't been to the Space Market yet and I am ashamed of myself for not going. An acquaintance sells some amazing one-of-a kind products there that come right from his place and I have been meaning to go. It's just so early in the morning and I am not a morning person. Or a noon person. Or an afternoon guy. Or an evening person. I just wanna bang on the gong all day.

I think there is a spot waiting for me at the picnic table in front of Island Naturals. A few more years on the island and I think I will be there. I'll be singing "Delta Dawn" with my volcano-ravaged voice. I think they need to do a study on sulfur dioxide and brain cells.

[Carey]

Yah, that punawebber has an amazing array of produce & is bringing in yellow dragonfruit tomorrow...so...well...YELLOW DRAGONFRUIT and buddah hands,,,and....oh you gotta go!

SPACE market is a great place to sample a lot of what East Hawaii has to offer....honey, bananas,(heck fruit of an amazing variety) teas, coffee, crystals & potions, all in the colorfully amazing SPACE theater...so you are able to experience it all in the 'theater of life'

I actually like the look of the SPACE market more than the grey tarp farmers markets...well, I just do not like the look of the grey tarps.... something inside of me riles at the fact they do need replacing as often here as they do & are then just trash...and they look so...rusty refugee... rather than tropical market... but that is just my opinion...

[kalakoa]

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I think there is a spot waiting for me at the picnic table in front of Island Naturals.

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I hadn't really thought that far ahead, and now you've given me something I can aspire to.

Thank you.

[Delta9r]

Rusty refugee! Hilarious! And so apt. Why can't they build pili grass hale like the old days?

"Life is labor, and all that is good in life comes from that labor..."

[Kelena]

I have one thing to say about those people hanging out in front of the Island Naturals in Pahoa -- I think they are all pretty nice in general and nice to each other. I love this sign I used to see everywhere in New Orleans: Be nice of leave!