The Safety Pin Cafe : He puko'a kani 'aina.. slow and steady making of island

The Safety Pin Cafe
"Beautiful on purpose!"

We have just bloomed a new motto. "Beautiful on purpose!" While sitting beneath our unplugged, nature-abundant air-conditioned cafe, eating the fresh pickin's of raspberries, Pete said, "Beautiful on purpose." Just like that! I turned to him in awe and thought THAT'S IT!

We are preparing to re-open and update our cafe. Like the olelo no'eau "He puko'a kani 'aina" that has been my guiding star ... slowly, because that's the way nature is The Safety Pin Cafe is combining it's mana, her life force, with that of Acoustic Tutu (my hand-drawn art with a story to tell).

The process includes these actions :

Ritualizing the connections with the multitude of potentialities
Gathering stories from here and there ...
Safety pinning them
Giving thanks for each mo'olelo
Tincturing them over time
Finding how they heal and change us
Sharing them in personalized doses
Asking the La'au nui ... the Tree People for their help when time comes for putting the mo'olelo onto their skins

Keep an eye on this blog. We are hoping to be ready to leap into our new skins in time for Acoustic Tutu's 3rd Birthday. September 4,2025.

😎 Mokihana

Clinton (Library), July 8, 2025

"we tell it slant"

We're not social realists, we're fantasists. We tell the truth, like poets, but we tell it slant -- we clothe it in symbol, archetype, and metaphor. But if we are to write or illustrate fantasy well we must do the work of understanding the classic tropes we use as best we can. Through reading. Through research. Through curiosity and sensitivity about lives and traditions far different than our own. Through building a relationship to the wild wherever we are. Know the place and the land on which you are rooted, and then move outward from there. - Terri Windling

THE SAFETY PIN CAFE'S MISSION

From the original medicine story The Safety Pin Cafe, its "Introduction" is the foundation upon which we offer what we know:

"We cross borders without regard, ignorant or arrogant of the protocol native to the transitional spaces that take us from this place to that place. Traditions remembered and practiced would maintain and pass along the right things to do, at the right time, and in the right frame of mind. Have we all become wanderers with passports un-stamped with the memory of teachings from the Ancestors and Nature? There are rituals to remember and common magic to induce respect and reverence for the beings and places that share this planet."

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