Issue #22 – Hawai’i – Part II

Issue #22 – Hawai’i – Part II

ISSUE #22:
This week in MUSE:   Hawai’i – Part II


CONTENTS:
Smooth and Rough and Smooth
Kaua’i
The Story of Chocolate
Forty years
E ku’u aloha


NEWS AND NOTES:

Recommended:
Mangoes

LAKA

Geology of Kaua’i

Image Credits:
Cover art: Na Pali, photo  by B. Wujcik.
Smooth and Rough and Smooth: Mangoes, photo  by B. Wujcik.
Kauai: photos by B. Wujcik.
The Story of Chocolate: The Chocolate Shack, photo by B. Wujcik; The Story of Chocolate, and All About Chocolate brochures from Garden Island Chocolate.
Forty Years: Deb & Bruce (1979) photo by L. Wujcik, Deb & Bruce (2019) photo by B. Wujcik.
E ku’u aloha: Wedding Band and Wedding photos by B. Wujcik; Engagement photos by E. Baker.


 

Smooth and Rough and Smooth

Smooth and Rough and Smooth

The Big Island’s people are a great collection of ethnicities: Polynesian, Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Vietnamese, Portuguese, and Thai. Having lived in the multicultural Northeast for almost thirty years, we felt comfortable in the mix, readily absorbing new-to-us flavors. Locals were friendly and open, sharing island ways and styles and cookery with a smile, so we settled in. We were welcomed, if not quite adopted.

Kaua’i is different, though, in that many more residents are of Japanese descent.

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Forty Years

Forty Years

We went to Hawai’i to celebrate Jaimie+Max’s wedding, and Keith+Emilia’s engagement, and also our forty-four years together. It was a wonderful confluence of love and commitment, in a beautiful setting conducive to the ideal of a shared life. I do not have to tell anyone in a relationship long or short how hard it is to fashion a life together, to balance I and You and We … the Venn diagram of marriage is not – and can’t be – one of congruency.

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