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
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
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.
Kaua’i
The Story of Chocolate
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.
