TMT construction begins Monday 15 July

[glinda]

I really do think it would be a shame to lose the TMT, and the advancements it promises in our understand of our universe. But what I believe Josh Green was saying is all that, to the people here, the people born here, is far less important than preserving the fabric of the community. The love people feel for each other. The nods and smile passed between them a they go about their day. The smiles when they see each other in KTA's parking lot. The parties, the sporting events, graduations, weddings, and baby showers, all the I went to school with his sister, my cousin married his brother, we go to the same church, yeah we are in the same halau, the same canoe club. All the camping and fishing and surfing and another generation of kids growing up together. And the funerals. All the shared moments that bind, the magic of what enriches a close knit island society, the magic of how their lives are all intertwined. That is what I think Josh Green was talking about. What is critical that it be protected, preserved.

As such, and as I said all along. I really wish the TMT hadn't become the icon of something it really has nothing to do with. It's a pawn in a drama set in motion lifetimes ago. But that's what it is. It is the grain of sand in which the line was drawn.

Hopefully Harry will find a way. I really hope so. And you know, I know Harry, and know how sacred he holds the well-being of this island's community. I also know, in the past he's been more comfortable in his role as dictator of events, as was his to do as CD director, than he was with the democratic process of being Mayor. Though he's aged, and this really is a critical moment involving all the people he grew up with. He's not just a mayor, he's deeply woven into that fabric himself. This is his personal community. In other words his heart is in it too. So with that I'm praying he can find the way, he'll figure out what to do..