Lunch and tales

Greetings and aloha to you!

It has been many months since I've parked myself at The Safety Pin Cafe, the blog. In real life the cafe is an everyday, every night happening. We live from a small golden wagon and from the tiny dignity of a porch space I cook up breakfast, lunch and dinner in a cafe that is as moveable as a safety pin.

I have been kept very busy with living, and writing, and those Lunch(es) at the Pin, though not quite manifesting as designed, have been happening in miraculous fashion. I'm here at the keys to leave this short post with directions to the place where lunch and tales, Myth for My Tale Bone, to be specific are being written and served on a fairly regular basis.

To find out why Myth for My Tale Bone go here.
To read the lastest of those tales? It's here.

We are preparing our Golden Wagon for a move soon, but I was pleasantly surprised to see that there were many comments left on The Safety Pin Cafe (from months past!) because I have been busy elsewhere. If yours is one of those comments, and you are a real and truly curious human, my apologies for not publishing your comments.

For now, I invite you to read the myths, poetry and tales that are currently being cooked, tinctured and served. There are some very meaty topics written, and you the readers are invited to support the heART based myths by paying for the posts. Become a patron, and get involved with growing a world that lends a hand. Art is important!

 Join me for tales, lunch and a latte at Myth For My Tale Bone.

See you there,
Mokihana

Lunch @ the P.I.N. is coming this Year of the Pig, 2019

People Indigenous Now 

(P.I.N.)

What began as a medicine story written on Forest Lane on an island in the middle of the Salish Sea grew into a storytelling gathering held in the summers on the Prairie Front on that same island in the Salish Sea.

Now years later, the roots and twigs of that medicine story distill into the stuff that an old woman with Indigenous Roots must share... lunch! Those of us who do carry the kuleana, the responsibilities of remembering, keep our promises by reminding other human beings (who have a tendency to forget).

Lunch @ the P.I.N. are opportunities to remember to remember.

To Begin:

Listen, hear and watch, mother, teacher, writer, Potawatomi sister Robin Wall Kimmerer

Then:

Re-wind and focus most intently on the Q &A Section of Robin Wall Kimmerer's talk "We the People ..."

It is the final minutes that holds the water, the essence, of what Lunch @ the P.I.N. is all about; asking and answering with Native awareness these questions, "If we are not indigenous, and do not have the right to (appropriate indigenous practices) 'How do we come into contact with ceremony that is authentic; and, why is ceremony important?'

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A Calendar and description of Lunch @ the P.I.N. Gatherings/Classes will be available sometime this year. Kimmerer's book Braiding Sweetgrass along with my personal journey as elder-in-training in the Kanaka Maoli culture (Hawaiian); and issues included on the sidebar "Spot and Learn" (to your right on this blog) will be important parts of "Lunch @ the P.I.N."

We need your help to serve up Lunch @ the P.I.N. 

Do you have a place to host a fragrance free and chemical free small gathering?
Are you, or do you know Indigenous artists, elders, young people who have story to share in small intimate gatherings?
Would you like to be a Patron and Supporter of Lunch @ the P.I.N.?

IF YOU'VE ANSWERED 'YES' to any or all of these questions please contact us.

E Ola Mau, to life ongoing!
Mokihana Calizar and Pete Little

360-632-2250 (Text or Phone)
Email mokihanacalizarATgmailDOTcom