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Here's a short little poem.

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I lived in Hawaii for 11 years.

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And nobody really
knew what I did there,

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but they knew I raced canoes.

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And one time I went to
the Kapalama post office

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to mail off a box.

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And the postmistress
was looking at me.

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And she looked at the
name on the box, my name.

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And she said, oh, you're the
one that makes those cookies.

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Yeah.

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But water was one
of my teachers.

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I mean, water is a being.

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And being out in the water
in the canoes really--

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it taught me.

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I went there to learn from
water, although I didn't really

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know it then.

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And it was a major teacher.

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And you go to water,
there's water, the ocean.

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But then you always go up to the
clouds and you go into the sky.

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And I think it was when
I was living in Tucson,

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because of the
water situation, I

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started learning a little bit
how to talk to the clouds.

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And it came because of
situations where I'm going up.

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You know, when you leave, you
fly up out of here sometimes

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and it's like this.

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Or the winds, I would start
talking to the winds too,

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and say, OK, we're
getting ready to go up.

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This happened the other
day, leaving Knoxville,

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and it was storming.

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And they said,
everybody sit down.

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It's going to be really--
and so, I think, OK.

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I told the clouds, I really
appreciate you coming.

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There's been a drought
here, a terrible drought.

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There's been fires.

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But you guys came
through and you really--

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you stopped the fires.

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And everybody is so happy.

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We saw the wild turkeys
out here because we

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hadn't seen them for a while.

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They were so happy to see you.

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So I talked with
the clouds that way.

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And we went up
and there was no--

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and it's not anything special.

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It's that we all like
to be acknowledged.

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There's a communication
that's always going on.

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It's always going on.

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So this is "Entering the
Principality of O'ahu

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by Sky Roads."

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Because I would come in.

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And I always learned things
from the clouds, coming in,

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and the winds.

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"Somebody sang these
clouds into being.

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Tell me, who is your singer?

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Does the song maker inhabit the
story of the pig god digging

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cliffs with an angry,
passionate love,

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or sing knowledge beneath
this misty cloak, perched

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on the shoulders of
the island spirit?

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I want to know
this song maker who

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continues to make songs that
lift the most humble spirits

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to the grass houses
of the heavens,

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songs that aren't paid for
by the money and influence

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of rich, fat, corporate gods."

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