Hāwane Rios Instagram – amplifying with reverence for sea of grief that has engulfed Palestine for over 70 years and over 70 days “Palestinian families in Gaza bidding farewell to their loved love, they were never numbers they were people who were loved deeply, remember their names.” kū.mā.kena vt. To lament, bewail, mourn loudly for the dead our word for intense grief i have never said this word so much in my life from the moment the fire burned through beloved Lahaina to the moment we stood at Pu’u Laina to kanikau for the many people who lost their lives in the flames to the moment the bombs dropped over sleeping babies it has been kūmākena they are not just numbers on our screens they are not just the bodies their spirits had to leave behind they are they were and always will be real people who lived and who loved who were beloved by those who cherished them who raised them who fed them who laughed with them who ate with them & dreamed with them israel is literally murdering innocent civilians and “christian leaders” like biden are busy signing off on more money and more bombs to be dropped over real innocent people. and why is it that all of the babies and young children we see are dead in their pajamas? it is because israel strikes at night when they trying to sleep but can’t knowing that the sounds of the bombs are coming closer i could not even try to imagine the fear of knowing that the home you love could come crashing down unto you and your entire ‘ohana in seconds so many christians – so many people who believe in jesus and who are celebrating his day of birth in just a few days are absolutely just fine watching palestinians die at the hands of their “fearless leaders” this country was cursed the moment they killed the first indigenous people of these lands it will be cursed for all eternity because there are too many of us too many descendants of the witches and ceremonial women that they could not burn, rape, beat, and hang, and murder to many of our ancestors survived and now we are the many and we still have the magic we still know the incantations we still pray in the middle of the night under the same stars and the same moon and so it is so it shall be