aloha friends i really doubt many read this but if you do i also know alot about the gatherrrigs i hawaii.i scouted the hawi site and by gthe way helped haul out 4 truckloads of trash and one junk car.i also started the seed of our moder day hawaii gatherring 4 years ago and was very intrigral at ivery event.i am also one of the rainbows who heatedly told some fakers they were fakers.i feel m etta talks kinda negatively about the gatherrig.land use issues that i call da aina come up randommly and are felt by all who are conected to this magical place.at first i felt like i let my rainbow tribe down after hawi but god that i call akua came and lifted up her wings.ya we had to move a few times but are we just a bunch of pussies?trying to have 12 day regional in hawaii which is all about land use issues right now i 08,a 12 day peace and love fest i this day and age of no child left behind is amazing that we have pulled it off at all.and by the way metta is the man he did really step it up and really served his community well so dont feel their is anamosity towards me and metta i love the guy and his family for who they are not just what they do.but i feel he is missrepresenting alot,this expierience for all invovled was onerwhelmingly beautiful. that god let us gather i waipio which would never had happened if we planned it i personally was told by bishop museum last year at ka alu alu afdter being photoed to never try it in waipio.well we not oly tried we succeeded.waipio is not only for the rich white people who ride horses all over the valley that shit and destroy the aina.think all who were against were not land owners they were power trippers.and ya i told the guy who wrote the letter he was a pun and you kow wkhat he is a punk.but metta yelled louder at me than i did at the guy.do two wrongs make a right and the guy says be mellow ya metta be mellow.i had the greastest time in waipio ineryone i know who was there did too.dont believe the hype listen to your heart.i love your gatherring idea i just want to know did you plan to cut me out.because i am on no power trip anywho will actually focallize and mae the dream a reality is welcome to fill my shoes i have been wanting to tae them off anyways and play some bluegrass with the boys.