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Dawn Morais
Communications Consultant/ Instructor/ Blogger/ Issue Advocate • Born in Kerala. Raised in Malaysia. Living in Hawaii.
Blog Archives
A Living Wage: In Utah, as in Hawaii, lawmakers say no to struggling workers
The Fight for $15 in Hawaii ground to a halt in late February this year when it reached the Senate’s Ways and Means Committee, chaired by Senator Donovan Dela Cruz, a Democrat. The effort to help workers make ends meet…
Tagged with: Brian King, Donovan Dela Cruz, Fight for $15, gender gap, Hawaii, Minimum wage, Utah
Posted in Business and Justice, Fight for $15, I BLOG, Uncategorized, Women's Rights, Workers' Rights
Posted in Business and Justice, Fight for $15, I BLOG, Uncategorized, Women's Rights, Workers' Rights
Zen in Hakalau: Akiko’s Prayers
Wondrous Prayer We live in modesty and simplicity, palms together, head bowed in gratitude, giving thanks for each inhale and each exhale. We settle deeply, surrendering our bones and our being to the earth, grounded deeply in our precious Hawaii.…
Tagged with: Akiko Masuda, bamboo, bananas, Big Island, Breadfruit, Buddhism, Hakalau, Hawaii, Peace, prayer, Religion and Spirituality, Zen
Posted in Environment, Grace, I BLOG, Peace, Spiritulaity, Sustainability, Uncategorized
Posted in Environment, Grace, I BLOG, Peace, Spiritulaity, Sustainability, Uncategorized
Zen: Buddhist B & B in Hakalau
No TV. Limited Wi-Fi. No cell phone coverage unless you walk down the road to find a hot spot. Silence from 6.30 p.m. to 6.30 a.m. No microwave. No shoes in the house: a sunny yellow and white relic of…
Tagged with: Akiko, Akiko Masuda, Big Island, Buddhism, Buddhist Retreat, Foodshare, Hakalau, Hamakua, Hawaii, Hilo, Meditation, Miyo Harumi, United States, Wailea Valley, Zen
Posted in Big Island, Coqui Frogs, Environment, Hamakua, Hawaiian Values, I BLOG, Listening, Mochi-pounding, Seniors, Sustainability, Uncategorized
Posted in Big Island, Coqui Frogs, Environment, Hamakua, Hawaiian Values, I BLOG, Listening, Mochi-pounding, Seniors, Sustainability, Uncategorized
Our Silent “Amens”
You know how some preachers like you to give them an “Amen” to affirm what they are saying? I tend to stay stubbornly silent. Don’t like “amens” being extorted from me as I try to enter my own meditative space.…
Tagged with: Hawaii, Jasmine, Kainoa Keauli`i, SB 2511, Single use Bag Fee Bill
Posted in I BLOG, Uncategorized
Posted in I BLOG, Uncategorized
“Honor” Limbaugh: Pass the Bag Fee Bill.
Radio Station KPUA on the Big Island was the first radio station in the U.S. to drop Rush Limbaugh — and they did it with class and clarity. Now Hawaii legislators can follow this brave effort to lead the nation…
Tagged with: Bag Fee bill, Chaminade University, Civic Engagement Club, Diana Sellner, Hawaii, Hogan Entrepreneurs, Rush Limbaugh
Posted in Civic Square, Civility, I BLOG, Talk Radio, Uncategorized
Posted in Civic Square, Civility, I BLOG, Talk Radio, Uncategorized
Catholicism with Aloha
Free. Of the stultifying pronouncements of clergy at the highest levels far removed from the lives of people on the ground. Free. Of the biases of tradition that have their roots, not in the Gospels but in the circles of…
Tagged with: aloha, Catholic, Fr. Raimon Panikkar, Fr. Roy Bourgeois, Francis of Assisi, Hawaii, John Henry Newman, Michael Eric Dyson, social justice, Sr. Joan Chittister, Thomas Merton
Posted in I BLOG, Religion
Posted in I BLOG, Religion
Dawn Morais 