Mike Foley's blog
Here are a couple of samples:
What a ‘wero’!
Over the past 40-plus years I’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 […]
Hot, quaking, chicken-skin metaphors
[Oriignally published on April 12, 2009.] A number of times during this morning’s Easter program in church the music so moved me that I felt a thrill fill my body as tears welled in my eyes . . . which leads me to some thoughts on those familiar feelings. In addition to the Easter music, […]
Barbed wire jump
In a recent meeting (actually a Latter-day Saints testimony meeting) a young lady in our church shared a story of faith that involved praying for her car . . . which reminded me of two incidents where we did something similar years ago in Samoa:
Waikiki cabby days: late 60’s
[By Mike Foley, originally published May 10, 2009] My wife, Sally, and I wanted to go to a certain restaurant yesterday, and because it was the closest one to where we were in Honolulu, we ended up on Kuhio Avenue (a block mauka of the beach) in Waikiki and right across the street from one […]