My Holoholo Diary

My Holoholo Diary Summary Loving Hawai'i and having repetitive dreams of the Volcano Goddess, Kupuna Pele, brought Nancy to take a mid-life journey to the Big Island of Hawai'i. With her partner Paul's agreement, she embarked on what she calls "a sabbatical between being a mother and a grandmother."My Holoholo Diary records her adventures, mystical experiences, and challenges while living in the Hawai'ian culture. Nancy's colorful stories bring local Hawai'ian people "to life" with their pidgin English, native wisdom, humor, and warm Aloha. Most especially, this Diary is intended as a tribute to her spiritual guides Haleaka Iolani (Auntie Aka) and her mother, Kalehuamakanoe (Auntie Fern), and their Ohana. They encouraged Nancy to write down and share these invaluable ancient Hawai'ian teachings, wisdom, and customs. During this year, she had valuable training in Lomilomi massage and the principles of Ho'o'ponopono, met sovereignty activists, and a captain and crew members of the trans-oceanic voyaging canoes. Nancy shares some almost-unbelievable supernatural experiences she had and the ways they catalyzed a change in her world view. As many kahunas say, including Aka and her mother, "Imagine what we could see if we could lift the veils." Having come many times before to the Big Island on vacation with her family, this time she arrived alone, six days before the New York Twin Towers attack on 9/11, 2001. She immediately witnessed the Island of Hawai'i come together as a community, as people lost their jobs, due to the shutdown of airports and the sudden halt in tourism. She joined the local people as they met to dialogue, to problem-solve, and renew the old self-sustaining ways of their ancestors, and to kokua (help) each other. Her Diary sometimes reads like a travel…