Small one today... Even on Sunday Wash Day, get my breakfast at the same health food store. Greens (kale salad + other cruciferous like red cabbage and broccoli), w/ beans or tofu -- the greens-&-beans diet that broke my depression and weaned me off my state-funded 'psych doc's "therapy" pre-covid -- pharm. Suppose I've developed a fierce loyalty to it, given it's done that, plus saw me thru running only 300 ft at first (200 lbs) to 2 mis in 13 mins flat over hilly terrain, with a mask on. Will always use as the basis of any diet, not seeking to initiate radical change (such as pancreatitis, which starves you w/ only ice chips to eat and water to drink 6d -- so your GI tract stays off and the pancreas can heal). So imagine my surprise -- healthfood store had no kale salad today. Usually this place has two versions, one w/ shredded beet (too sopped w/ beet juice, which is full of sugar) and one w/ edamame, chopped red cabbage, tomato & carrot. Pick just the cabbage, beans and kale from the latter, and pile on my own from the DIY side. Cup of tofu chili, and off to the mall. Nope -- both versions were missing. Which must mean there's a run on kale for some reason -- hopefully the farms supplying the store haven't run into flood-related problems... which has happened before, to Whole Foods' formerly-excellent salad bar (prior to 'Mazzo taking over, of course). People go on and on about Maui produce reaching this and that milestone vs. non-organic produce... but if you're still encountering flaws in the organic supply-chain w/ weather, it's not on par yet (do wonder if the hotels, which have robust lobbies in County and State legislatures... have anything to do with it, as bagged broccoli stem salad, which I used to eat with my chicken breasts, are also gone -- this time from Safeway shelves. The resorts steal all our water for their broken sprinklers and golf courses, so kowtowing to pay-thru-the-nose customers over residents? Not a stretch). Seeing both those cruciferous products gone today... pretty rare, maybe 3x in 10y. Hope it's back for the week of the New Year
This is a video from a playlist for a YT channel dedicated to stories about paranormal events in Hawai'i: Like this channel, since it's curated by an uploader who's ethnically Hawaiian, and knows much of the history, culture, and lore of not only Hawaiian sources of the unexplained, but those of the cultures that made up Local culture, from before the plantations to very recently. Thing about growing up in HI... came up knowing stories local (and Local) only on Maui... and esp in my era, technology simply didn't allow sharing of such stories to reach further than the shorelines of the islands they occurred on, or scant whispers by phone of family on neighbor islands. So many of these stories are just as new to me as you... but confirm my own experiences on Maui, on mainland, and in other parts of the world. The Saddle Road story to me, felt the most chilling -- I knew of the Pali cliffside road on O'ahu being extremely haunted by quite physically-dangerous and spectacularly-frightening spirits (as is the Pali Road here on Maui) -- which ime, belongs to a small club in lore: only Native American cryptid lore (from mostly East Coast but all over the US), are as infamous as a comm'y, for physically harming those who cross their lines in the sand (even Japanese accounts don't have as much solid proof of the spirit world causing direct, injurious harm to the living other than sickness, madness, and other small and explained-away symptoms -- and Japan is packed tight with ghosts). Makes sense -- both sets of cultures are nature-worshipping... and even in the reign of Kamehameha I (late-18th / early-19th century), order were kept in Hawaiian society, thru ritual human sacrifice. The sheer amt of sightings / accounts of physical interactions of Saddle Road spirit cadre, with hapless people (and one part-Hawaiian) who crossed at the wrong time, is surprising -- as much documented in media back then, as orally-passed to me, tall and all, of Maui events, scary. Mind you, there's just as much classic apocryphal ghost yarn stuff here (mostly from recent times), as stories that come uncomfortably close to my own personal accounts... however, much of the source material isn't nearly as cobbled and arranged for effect as Ghost Hunters, for example (which iirc, still haven't found any ghosts ). But if you want a generally-good source of what the commotion's about, when you mention Hawaiian ghost stories to your Local colleague or friend... Lopaka's videos are well-researched, with plenty of the cultural background of the ancient Hawaiians to learn for your own visit to the State someday... I know I'll be using it... 'chicken skin' is right
