Kane and Lono Moons ... time to give thanks

We are just back from a quick drive down the hill to the Farmers' Market at Bayview.  One of our favorite farming friend sells the 'lowest-priced'starts and had snow peas, a generous bunch of dark greens and butternut squash starts.  For less than $10 we have food to eat over the weekend and starts to plant soon (but, not quite yet) for a harvest of winter food.  Another local family are expert worm folks, the whole family gets into the marketing of their enterprise and we all benefit from the tiny creatures who churn the earth into compost and worm castings.  Before heading home we stopped at the Good Cheer Garden.  A band of students from Bastyr College (naturopaths in the making) littered the rows of vegetables weeding, mulching, planting.  In the mix of the energetic 'litter' the piped piper of the gardens was orchestrating assignments from her kneeling position.  This garden feeds a mission we experience:  "growing food for a hunger-free community."  Pete's a regular volunteer at Good Cheer Garden, doing everything from mowing to trench-digging, hauling and installing green house and whatever else needs doing. There's a small push mower in the tool shed that'll be just right for me to get the orchard grass maintained.  We stopped to ask after it.  Once Pete got here attention she said, "Take it.  We'll ask for it when we need it."

As we drove back up the hill Pete was singing, "Back in the saddle again..."  It's what he's feeling, and obviously the many people and places that are touched by his hands of doing and makin' benefit from him being back in the groove.  Work and resources flow into our lives as we settle into our individual saddles.  We malama that seed of ourselves and Na Akua, the gods answer with our asking.  Today/tonight and tomorrow are the moons of recognition and thanksgiving to Kane and Lono.  These are the sources of malama unseen if one is unconscious of his-her connection and home-ness.  The rain, the air, the growing plants, the plants and animals that share their lives for our thriving.  Gods of health and harvest, these gods have many names and all attach to the source of malama ... care. 

Prayer and offerings

We have much to offer in prayer, Kane and Lono

• mahalo for the place that offers us time and softening ... we plant seeds
• mahalo for the patience to weather the waiting ... hoomanawanui
• mahalo for the company of people who are different ... we are different, they are different
• mahalo for the healing beliefs that are more frequent and choosen more often ... we change
• mahalo for the evolving nature of our relationships with family, community with our self
• mahalo for the abundance of help that we attract to make our home more comfortable
• mahalo for the work of writing and knotting together pieces of story from there, there, there and here ... blogs are the best!
• mahalo for harvests, planting, and cultivating ... ideas, food and our own nature
• mahalo for the recovering that takes place for my brother after a harsh period of chemo-radiation
• mahalo for what comes next

Mahalo are prayers the gods eat up.