Aloha and Greetings Beautiful Tribe-
I write to you all from San Diego, on the eve of Aleia's final corrective heart surgery. The procedure will take place tomorrow, Saturday March 3 at approx 8 am.

Yesterday Doc Lamberti, the amazing surgon who spends days and nights at the hospital operating on and tending to many beautiful little bodies, approached us and said "We didn't operate today...laugh, we're just waiting for the stars and planets to be in alignment...laugh". Doc didn't know that this saturday will mark a day of a full moon as well as a full lunar eclipse. This is a day of seeing our intentions manifest as well as connecting our Virgo everyday routine aspect with our Pieces spiritual aspect. As Keith reads to me of this sacred earth union i know that it is truly one of the many lessons of this journey.

With so many of you all across this planet gathered in support of our continued success, we join together yet again to share joy and celebrate life and its many wonders. This lunar eclipse also brings the opportunity of many magnificent epiphanies-revealations beyond our deepest imaginings. So to be completely open on this day-in love and gratitude is to serve Aleia and her healing as well as each of us in ours.

My deepest gratitude and breath goes out to all of you who have continued to pray, sing, gather, move energy, draw, write, donate, and hold light and love in the celebration of life for us and our amazing daughter. An open heart hears all cries and prays for everyone. And to Aleia for continuing to surrender to the one union with infinite faces. Aleia the master-maker, my greatest teacher here, you are divinity in openness, the flame of eternity and joy.
It my greatest honor to be your momma, friend, daughter, sister, queen, playmate,niece, granddaughter, teacher, student,reflection...
You are all in my heart, your souls make the dance that is my light.

Blessings and Joy!
The Momma, the Poppa, the One

BAMBOO APPLICATIONS/ bamboo facts

Did you know that….?
1. There are over 1400 species of bamboo and probably many more.
2. Bamboo grows at phenomenal rates, up to a foot in a single day!
3. A mature 100’x100’ patch of clumping timber bamboo can produce enough construction materials to frame an entire house every year.
4. Certain bamboo root clumps can live for hundreds of years, providing an annual yield of materials.
5. A species of Bamboo was the first plant life to return after the atomic bombings of Japan.
6. Bamboo has one of the highest rates of photosynthesis of any plant species.
7. Certain timber bamboos have better tensile strengths than iron or steel on a strength per weight basis.
8. Bamboo is actually a specie of giant woody grass, giving new meaning to the idea of living in a grass hut.
9. Bamboo has over a thousand household and industrial uses including high quality paper.
10. Bamboo enriches soil with beneficial microorganisms.
11. Bamboo retains soil and lives on even after harvesting the culm or stems.
12. Bamboo is a nutritious food source for both humans and animals.
13. Appropriate, beneficial bamboos can be grown, harvested and treated right here on the Big Island with no negative impact to the soil or greater environment.
14. Bamboo is at the center of a sustainable eco-ethical industry worldwide and that new industrial applications are being developed every year.

OTHER BAMBOO FACTS FROM the INBAR website
·A sixty-foot tree cut for market takes 60 years to replace. A sixty-foot bamboo cut for market takes 59 days to replace.

·Over one billion people in the world live in bamboo houses.
·The world trade in bamboo and rattan is currently estimated at 14 billion US dollars every year.

Bamboos are giant, woody grasses which put out several full length, full diameter, naturally pre-finished, ready-to-use culms ("stems") each year.

·A single bamboo clump can produce up to 15 kilometers of usable pole (up to 30 cm in diameter) in its lifetime.

·Described as the 'wood of the poor' (India), 'friend of the people' (China) and 'brother' (Vietnam), bamboo is a wonder plant that grows over wide areas of Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and Latin America. Millions of people depend on this plant for their livelihood.

·The existence of a Bamboo Age has not been ruled out. ·Its use in food and cooking goes far back in history.
Bamboo's potential for checking soil erosion and for road embankment stabilization are now becoming known. It is equally important for providing fast vegetative cover to deforested areas.

Bamboo's role in the construction field is equally substantial. Hundreds of millions of people live in houses made from bamboo. In Bangladesh, 73% of the population live in bamboo houses. It provides pillars, walls, window frames, rafters, room separators, ceilings and roofs.

There are about 1,500 documented traditional uses - from cradle to coffin - for bamboo. A few of these are:

Household
aphrodisiac - ashtrays - bagpipes - barrels - baskets - beds - bikes - blinds - bookcases - bowls - boxes - briefcases - brushes buttons - candlesticks - crutches - desks - dolls - egg cups - fans - fences – fire starters - firewood - flutes, drums, xylophones and other musical instruments - flooring - flowerpots - frames - furniture - garments - gates - grain storage - hairpins - handles - hats - hookahs - incense sticks - jars - kites - knives - laquerware - ladders - ladles - lamps & shades - landscaping - matting - mattresses - medicines - napkin rings - organ pipes - ornaments - paper cutters - pegs - polo balls - rattles - rings - ritual objects - skewers - splints - tea whisks - toys - toothpicks - torches - trays - trellises - umbrellas - walking sticks - water storage – whistles - wine storage - winnowing trays

Industry
activated charcoal - acupuncture needles - aircraft parts - alcohol - beer - dowel pins - fireworks - light-bulb filament - looms - paper pulp - rayon - silk cocoon trays - weaving shuttles

Transportation
boat hoods - boats - bridges - cables - carrying poles - carts - caulking - dirigible - junks - rafts - wagons - wagon floors - wheelbarrow

Fisheries
baskets - masts - floats - nets - outriggers - fishnets - fishing poles - sails - traps

Agriculture
baskets - dams - dikes - farm implements - food - forage - grain - hummers - irrigation pipes - props – sluice gates - stakes - windbreak barriers - windmills

Construction
hen houses - houses - plybamboo - posts - reinforcements - roofing - ropes - scaffolding - screens - shingles - stilts - temporary shelters - towers – flagpoles…

For more information on the amazing properties of Bamboo check out the informative websites of two related organizations: the International Network of Bamboo and Rattan or INBAR is located at http://www.inbar.int and the American Bamboo Society’s web pages can be found at http://americanbamboo.org.

Blessings,

Keith

Navy To Use Sonar Despite Court Rulings Act allows exemptions from environmental law during wartime by Joan Conrow When it comes to complying with environmental laws, the U.S. Navy has proven to be as slippery as the marine mammals that federal statutes strive to protect. Last August, the Navy said it would comply with the law and conduct the studies required to use high-intensity sonar at all its major ranges, including those around Hawai'i. Conservation groups, seeking to spare whales, dolphins and other ocean animals from the potentially lethal affects of underwater sonar, breathed a sigh of relief. But recently the Pentagon announced that the Navy doesn't have to comply with the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) while it's conducting those studies. Donald Schregardus, deputy assistant secretary of the Navy for the environment, said the Navy sought the exemption because "we cannot stop training for the next two years" while the studies are being done. Schregardus is the same man who, last August, vowed the Navy would no longer attempt to circumvent the law, as it had done in seeking a six-month exemption from the MMPA to allow the Rim of the Pacific summertime war games to proceed in Hawai'i. At the time, the Navy was facing litigation over its use of sonar in Hawaiian waters, just as it is currently facing a lawsuit over similar activities off the coast of Southern California. The Pentagon's announcement came shortly after the California Coastal Commission declared that the Navy's proposed safety measures for the sonar exercises do not adequately protect marine life. The commission urged the Navy to adopt a number of additional provisions before conducting its planned training. Instead, the Navy appealed to the Pentagon, and it invoked the 2004 National Defense Authorization Act, which allows the Department of Defense (DOD) to grant itself categorical exemptions from environmental laws during times of war. In a three-paragraph memorandum, Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England excused the Navy from all provisions of the MMPA in its use of high-intensity, mid-frequency sonar for a period of two years and stated that, in that time, the Navy would "execute the plan coordinated with the Department of Commerce to come into full compliance" with the MMPA. Joel Reynolds, a senior attorney with the Natural Resources Defense Council, says the exemption is "a clear admission by the U.S. Navy that its current operations violate the protective standards" for marine mammals. "It's not that the Navy can't comply with the law. It's that the Navy chooses not to." Reynolds and other lawyers, representing conservation groups in the fight against the Navy's unfettered use of sonar, plan to proceed with their lawsuit, anyway, contending the training exercises also violate other federal environmental laws. "The Navy has more than enough room in the oceans to train effectively without injuring or killing endangered whales and other marine species," Reynolds says. "Whales and other marine mammals shouldn't have to die for practice."

Presence and breath to you all my friends of the globe.

I am blessed to be here and grateful to all of you who reflect success around me! 
Aleia is sleeping soundly tonight in her new room in the intermediate care unit.  She is healing at rapid speeds.  After writing this email I will return to sleep with her this evening as Nicole seeks rest and santuary at the hotel.  We were transferred today to the same room we left two weeks ago!  Halleluah  and as we returned Aleia was happily greeted by all of the amazing I am U (Intermeddiate Care Unit) angels.  We also got the stretch limo crib which is big enough to lay next to her in bed.  We have made many friends here at this gathering of spirits.  A great mending tree for us all.

I look at Aleia's scar on her chest and realize the reflection of her truly opening her heart to us!  Aleia is my messenger and on this road I chart the direction home.  I call upon you the universe the grand collector of all,  I am ready to receive the Sanctuary home of our living well, to provide a safe and nurturing space where abundance of life is shining in our lives, a peaceful foundation in which to dig our roots deep and honorably in symbiance as our family grows.  I am creating the essence of music to radiate from my healing soul and provide a source of service to all.  Aleia, swinmming next to Nicole, Raven, Blaize and I at the beach.
Golden rivers of consciousness embracing the goodness of our spirit, vibrating with breath.
Rented biodiesel tours exploring the organinc mountain farms, childrens books published from the press of Mrs. Soul,  Sacred Designs functioning in many arenas of commerce and education.  Recording music with the children, sharing the love expression though action!
Blessing our neighbors, honoring the garbage men and politicians, gratitiude for the prisoners and those fighting in the war for?  Concious capitalism, vision force, whole foods, aesthetics, The successful wellness center operations and functional community relationship providing tourist and visitors a true experience of the island community, My sisters and my mother and father close together in union.   Auntie R and uncle TT, poppa haneman, and adelaide you beautiful soul.  I am blessed and grateful to be alive.

Aleia you are my messenger!

Breathing,

Keith



"A battle of sorts, possibly of the lessons now so that peace is the message of the rest of our lives."  Keith

Wednesday, March 7

Today we enter a new chapter in this amazing adventure. Around 7 pm we return to room 323 in the IMU. As we settle in Keith mentions a "wrinkle in time." Our little "wrinkle" has been the space of two weeks and in those two weeks, two heart surgeries. Our daughter's chest opened and closed twice, 13 days with only iv fluids "to eat,"
a beautiful man sharing his time, focus and strengths with our daughter. There is a new universe of intimacy in our lives as we share the care of our daughter with nurses and doctors plenty.  We now have a new caregiver every twelve hours, twice a day "getting to know" the person who will give care to our daughter.

Tomorrow, Aleia will have her final of two chest tubes removed. We will be able to hold her as much as we want. Breast feeding will return to normal. Aleia will still need some healing on her leg, though soon we will return to the Big Island. She has many scars across her beautiful little body-I always said i would love to do a book on scars and their stories, perhaps keith will be the photographer.


For now I retire, to deep breathing in the Delta way, Thank you Cassandra!
-visioning of our home, and healing sleep before another big day in the world of the Soul Tribe.

 In gratitude and infinite joy,
       The Great Momma Soul

Today the shadow cast as the moon danced in front of "Kala" the
sun.  A time of inner strength and the determination to follow
through!  Earth changes abound and the simple term "Love thy
Neighbor" is commanded through our consiousness and will to heal.



From the North to the South the East and West may our energies be
unified!  Connected to source we gather to bring light and
change.  From the roots, finding the water  once only thought
to be there.  The wellspring now full as we embrace the
stars.  Bring health to all who seek its temple.  Breath to
the core to inspire the life flow within our physical vessels! 



It is Sunday evening as I sit in the "Living Room" lobby of our
hotel  preparing  the networks facillitating our 
journey  home.  Aleia is peacefully sleeping with her mommy
in the castle of health called "Rady Children's Hospital".  There
is only room for one of us to sleep there, so it is my honor to be
doing this work as I prepare the gound for us to walk back to our
sanctuary on the Big Island of Hawai'i.



Tomorrow we begin our discharge process from the hospital and we will
see many doctors and pack up our temporary home. Then, move into the
hotel room for two additional weeks to stay close by and attend
periodic visits to monitor Aleia's heart.   My gratitude
emanates in all directions, blessed by the beauty of god and goddess in
all their names surrounding us in this amazing and epic walk.  A
change of the four months we have been hospitalized.  Aleia's
grandpa and Auntie arrive tommorrow evening to meet her for the first
time.  I know she feels them coming! 



Wednesday the 21st I will make the journey to Austin and join a team of
world changing visionaries at the Vision Force Bootcamp.  As a
part of a global competion, social change agents from all over were
asked to submit applications describing thier idea of vision and the
tools inside required to get there.  On the 21st of February the
selected participants were announced and I recieved my invitation to
attend.  The Vision Force Bootcamp is a four day intensive joining
30 changemakers together to resource the necessary tools to facilitate
the vision.  I am honored to be chosen and very excited to
attend!  After the event I will visit  my father, who will
drive down from a little town named San Angelo and share an early birth
day together.  We are both born April 5th. 



It brings me great joy to bring these tools back to our communities, and begin the rest of our lives this way. 



Community health and wellness brings about a whole new meaning as we
return to our projects back on the Big Island. We are standing to
empower our local island communites through sustainable methods and
encouaging local economic development.  We are networking the
communities to become allies effecting the greater change.  Our
Health and Wellness market place will serve as a model to other
community entreprenuers focusing on Concious Capitalism.  Through
the eyes of a village we are building a space to gather, to experience
the joys of connection, honor the culture and perpetuate its beauty,
educate and nourish our youth, heal and move our bodies and express our
souls.  As we share the tools of sustainability, health and
wellness is achieved and once again we move forward in ease.



I honor you all in your journeys, I honor my self in mine.  We are
all blessed in infinite rays of abundance and love.  Remember to
breathe, I reflect this to myself again as I breathe with you. 
Through you we are blessed,



Keith

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For me you are the "I" that is creating the amazing stand for peace in the world all around.  For you I am the amazing beacon of light that stands for the space of unconditional love in the face of all challenge and triumph. 

I am enamoured with honor and confidence in this amazing journey that we have created here.  I have just returned from Austin, TX, after attending the www.visionforce.com bootamp with 28 visionaries from four continents across the globe.  The inspiration of life and the knowledge the change that is occuring as we speak is opening the hearts of millions across the globe.  This past weekend, we distinguished a life of honor vs. integrity, taking a stand vs. position.  The tools recieved here exceeded my grasp on the relationships that we have with everyone in life.  Realizing the truth that exists in removing walls of judgement to see everyone as they stand for their justicce in life.  As a community leader this training ignites the powerful presence necessary to stand and affect the change as a powerful visionary commited to improving our social conditions.  Ready. yes I am ready in the face of feeling fear, and doubt when I narrate that nobody cares enough or that there is not enough time, or that my leadership is to weak.  I stand for being the one who leads our peoples in Global Peace, Social Justice, Youth education and the beautiful example of gentle masculinity with the strength of unconditional love.  through you I am blessed, and I encourage you to explore Vision Force and the amazing tools that Michael Skye has to offer.

In breath as life I am honor,

Keith

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