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If you were lost, would you use a compass?

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"The 'Original Instructions' (like the tools of the makua o'o) are not commandments. They are a compass, providing orientation, not a map." - Robin Wall Kimmerer Aloha ka'ua and welcome to Leo Kaona . My name is Yvonne Mokihana Calizar. I am the daughter of Helen Mokihana Amona Calizar and David Calizar, Sr. sister to David Calizar Jr. mother to Christopher Kawika Brown and wife to Dean "Pete" Little. I was born and raised on the island of O'ahu, first to breath the cool valley air of Palolo Valley as an infant, but moved with my Ma and Daddy to Kuli'ou'ou by the time my younger brother arrived in December of 1949. My brother and I are Filipino-Hawaiian and Chinese. Daddy was a windward side O'ahu plantation boy, Ma was a city girl born and raised on Aupuni Street in Honolulu's downtown neighborhoods. Pete and me with our wagon home This brief mo'okuauhau (genealogy) acknowledges with great aloha, the family upon w