03-02-2017, 07:52 PM
I always thought a forum was or should be a non zero sum game....in other words a game where everyone wins. But I'm wrong, it's a competition and PW wins. Abe died several years ago. But is it really a win because the real point I was trying to make is: Where is the "Local" news on Punatalk? In three days, no one could figure out for certain (except for PaulW ...and I credit him with good puzzle solving) that the young man who passed away wasn't so recent. My friend who told me about her devastating loss initially said it was recent but I realize it was in context of a story I told her about something that happened over thirty years so it was 'more' recent then when a fisherman got washed off the S. Point cliffs after fishing from them most of his life....a story the adults would tell us to try scare us from jumping off by the boat winch (didn't work then, doesn't work now).
Never turn your back on the ocean. He ia make ka opihi.
This should be good news though, no recent deaths down at Maku'u. The bad news is there is one Opihi picker who dies almost every year in these Islands. Competition for the expensive mollusks is steep and supply lower since Mashalese with carte blanche immigration policies (mass migration being another form of nuclear fallout) like to harvest what once was an exclusive Hawaiian resource. When I go down to local spots to talk story, everyone knows everything via oral history, maybe a little chronological disarray (Uncle Joe died last year or 4 years ago depending on who you talk to) but the story is there and it's always real in the context of the heart. The Punaverse here is very different and I am getting schooled. One needs to have a tireless level of precision and/or vaguery to survive. It may be why there is a little cross cultural disconnect.
But who cares what I think? Thanks to all who stick up for the underdog.
It's nonzero sum in some corners of the Punaverse afterall
Never turn your back on the ocean. He ia make ka opihi.
This should be good news though, no recent deaths down at Maku'u. The bad news is there is one Opihi picker who dies almost every year in these Islands. Competition for the expensive mollusks is steep and supply lower since Mashalese with carte blanche immigration policies (mass migration being another form of nuclear fallout) like to harvest what once was an exclusive Hawaiian resource. When I go down to local spots to talk story, everyone knows everything via oral history, maybe a little chronological disarray (Uncle Joe died last year or 4 years ago depending on who you talk to) but the story is there and it's always real in the context of the heart. The Punaverse here is very different and I am getting schooled. One needs to have a tireless level of precision and/or vaguery to survive. It may be why there is a little cross cultural disconnect.
But who cares what I think? Thanks to all who stick up for the underdog.
It's nonzero sum in some corners of the Punaverse afterall
