Aloha Lāhainā

Conspiracy theories are born out of pointing out individual facts in order to go viral without bothering to connect all of the related dots.

More than one thing can be true at the same time.

It takes time and much patience to connect dots over time, holding back comments on anything until we can be confident of our own understanding of a situation rather than quickly jump to someone else's conclusion.

Many sources include conflicting information and much that we do not agree with.

We can spend time looking into the common factors among them and sourcing the facts and then researching the agendas and the influencers of the publishers who publish them and those who distribute that content and what they choose to highlight or how they choose to package and present their version of the story.

We can still make mistakes in our analysis.

We can be grateful and respectful when proven wrong

We can quick to make the correction and admit our mistake.

But with this approach (more often than not), people will come to us later and ask, "how did you know?"

#bekind

"It will be told"

"Community stepped in where government was missing in action."

"The stuff of conspiracies is a natural human response to make sense of the unexplainable, to protect ourselves in some ways. But there's a bigger story here with a less cartoonish villain which is our own inability to accept things and to admit our faults, our mistakes, our miss-steps. Imagine being the person who made the wrong call on day and what they're living with right now. There's a bigger story that's more human, and that doesn't have a cartoonish villain -- but has people who are working hard, who are banding together and who are surviving and it's an inspiring story and it will be told."

Jeremy Lee Quinn, Reporter (18 August 2023)

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From a friend

Aloha and Mahalo Maui.

Leaving today and although I’m happy to head home I’m also wrought with sadness and loss. Although Lahaina wasn’t our “home” it was our home away from home. It was a place our family found peace and happiness every summer. All year we waited to get to Lahaina. We love the people, the town, the "Ohana".

As I left for the airport I was at Walmart trying to return something and I told the cashier I didn’t have the receipt because we left everything in the fire.

A minute later, a women tapped my shoulder and handed me a wad of cash. She said she hoped it would help a little and that she was sorry and hoped my family was safe.

I immediately said no no thank you. Please give it to someone local. We are leaving and I was okay.
That’s what this place is like. Kindness and generosity all around.

We will continue to support the efforts for recovery and hope that one day we will be back as a family.

My prayers and love to all the people of Lahaina.

Ps. It was great to see the WCK folks from DC arrive to help. Go team go!

Hug your friends and family today.

Xxjhv

15 August 2023 at 9:38am

From cyberspace

Posted: 18 August 2023