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		<title>What  a &#8216;wero&#8217;!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the past 40-plus years I&#8217;ve seen Maori at the Polynesian Cultural Center welcome many visiting groups of their countrymen with traditional greeting ceremonies, but I think the wero or challenge-and-acceptance protocol the PCC and Maori from the surrounding communities put on for Te Panekiretanga O Te Reo Maori on July 27, 2010, was one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Conviction overcomes affliction&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We have a tradition in our Laie 4th Ward High Priests group where we invite visitors to share something about themselves beyond the usual &#8220;my name is, and I&#8217;m from&#8221; moment that we do in our adult Sunday School class . . . and on August 8, 2010, we were privileged to learn a little [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rainy Rushmore!</title>
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Mt. Rushmore and surrounding region (if you don&#8217;t see a video window above,
please go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWp2Q05v77E)
Almost every time I saw pictures or movies of Mt. Rushmore in the past, its grand-scale patriotism instilled in me a desire to see it in person . . . so, even though it made for several long driving days [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arches! and getting there</title>
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A selection of pictures from Arches National Park near Moab, Utah (go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcZr15dhhq0 if you do not see a video window above)
The incredible natural beauty of Arches National Park — which I previously visited only once before in the mid-1970s on a  photo expedition to Monument Valley — speaks for itself, but in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Working on Kalaupapa family history records</title>
		<description><![CDATA[During our June 2010 road trip on the U.S. mainland, my wife and I visited with our friend and fellow Laie 4th Ward member, Sister Napua Baker, who is currently serving as a senior missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at the main Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Sister [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Revisiting hoodoos&#8230;and other trips</title>
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Bryce Canyon National Park in southern Utah is a great place to visit — or revisit, in our case: I first went there as a kid with my parents in the 1950s. Then, when Sally and I were on our honeymoon 40 years ago, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The beauty and harmony of Navaho rugs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the side benefits of recently staying at Jacob Lake Inn near the North Rim of the Grand Canyon was meeting the grandson of the founders, John Rich, who used his personal experiences and 40-year career of dealing in hand-woven Navaho rugs to help us understand the concept of hozho.
Rich, pictured at left, holds [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the North Rim again</title>
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On the north rim of Grand Canyon
My wife and I, along with several family members, recently drove from Las Vegas to the North Rim of the Grand Canyon in northern Arizona. For me, it was the first time in over 45 years I have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>B-52 and other cockroach tales</title>
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I first became aware of cockroaches when I was in elementary school in Salt Lake City, Utah, and we learned to do the Mexican hat dance to the music of La Cucaracha for a May Day program. Since then,  and even though I now know they are found in many places throughout the world, I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nanilaie.info/?p=521</link>
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		<title>Cultural serendipity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just a few days ago I experienced a brief moment of cultural serendipity when a number of Fijian and Tongan women performed a Fijian coming-of-age ceremony for several young women before they performed in nearby Kahuku High&#8217;s &#8220;May Night&#8221; program. The young women came on stage wrapped in traditional masi or bark cloth, which their [...]]]></description>
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