06-22-2008, 06:32 AM
Very thought provoking post....thanks for posting this.
I think at times when the big picture is so overwhelming, and you may be right, the powers have the power and we little people are pretty much under their thumb, we have to turn to our own little corner of the world, our own block, perhaps even us and the neighbor next door. That is what I want to talk about after reading your post.
We came here 3 years ago, thinking we knew alot, not knowing much after all. Luckily for us, by the luck of the draw or what ever you prefer to call it, we happened to build next to good people, the kind you talk about that believe in a "help each other" way of life.
We, a pair of older hoales, off to have our adventure in paradise, to ecscape the dull and too well known world of over 30 years experience , raising a bunch of kids.
We arrived litteraly in our rental car with suitcases and weedeater, freshly boughten at home depot, tents from walmart and into the jungle we went with the weedeater revived up as far as possible which of course proved to be no match.
Our neighbor, who was a new arrival to hawaii in the 1940's after military service and of mexican ancestary, and who married a local hawaiian girl in Honolulu, came here to live at retirement, observed our futile efforts and immediately came to our rescue.
We ended up staying in the cabin behind their house, he helped us not only get the lot cleared with his excavator but jumped in many times in the building of our home.
They included us in several of there family gatherings, and we became aunty and uncle to there grandson.
There was an event that occured that we did that offened them because of a hawaiian custom and I think his wife has remained a little offish because of it, but is still quite civil to us.
I don't know if its because of being Okies, but we have always done the same, always helping neighbors when we could. And there have been times that we have helped our neighbors here also.
So isn't this what you are talking about? Getting down to this type of involvment again?
I will say if powers become too oppresive that people can congregate together and really bite hard and take back their own power.
But it think now is the time to help our neighbor next door.
I think at times when the big picture is so overwhelming, and you may be right, the powers have the power and we little people are pretty much under their thumb, we have to turn to our own little corner of the world, our own block, perhaps even us and the neighbor next door. That is what I want to talk about after reading your post.
We came here 3 years ago, thinking we knew alot, not knowing much after all. Luckily for us, by the luck of the draw or what ever you prefer to call it, we happened to build next to good people, the kind you talk about that believe in a "help each other" way of life.
We, a pair of older hoales, off to have our adventure in paradise, to ecscape the dull and too well known world of over 30 years experience , raising a bunch of kids.
We arrived litteraly in our rental car with suitcases and weedeater, freshly boughten at home depot, tents from walmart and into the jungle we went with the weedeater revived up as far as possible which of course proved to be no match.
Our neighbor, who was a new arrival to hawaii in the 1940's after military service and of mexican ancestary, and who married a local hawaiian girl in Honolulu, came here to live at retirement, observed our futile efforts and immediately came to our rescue.
We ended up staying in the cabin behind their house, he helped us not only get the lot cleared with his excavator but jumped in many times in the building of our home.
They included us in several of there family gatherings, and we became aunty and uncle to there grandson.
There was an event that occured that we did that offened them because of a hawaiian custom and I think his wife has remained a little offish because of it, but is still quite civil to us.
I don't know if its because of being Okies, but we have always done the same, always helping neighbors when we could. And there have been times that we have helped our neighbors here also.
So isn't this what you are talking about? Getting down to this type of involvment again?
I will say if powers become too oppresive that people can congregate together and really bite hard and take back their own power.
But it think now is the time to help our neighbor next door.