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Carrie Inamasu-Aken

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He kanaka 'ōiwi au, mau a mau! I ka 'ōlelo Hawai'i no ka ola, mau a mau! He mea kākau, Aloha ʻĀina au. Noho e Nānākuli. All opinions are my own. 🪬🧿

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Lualualei, Oʻahu | My Lāhui Offerings 03.27.26

CURRENT OFFERINGS:

FREE TAROT READINGS for those affected, or who have volunteered or donated during this flood crisis across Hawaiʻi pae ʻāina:

- Three-Card Pulls
- Oracle Pulls
- Or Whatever You Want To Know (within reason!)

FREE FOR LAʻAU LAPAʻAU Healers & Practitioners providing healing mea during this time, especially to the affected and front lines:

- Sage
- Rosemary
- Thyme
- Lavender
- Noni
- & ʻUhaloa

***in limited amounts*** I can hopefully provide enough to get you to your next reup.

I offer all of this as I am tapped on time, mana and money to be an effective contributor to our lāhui in this time of crisis. But I always try to look at what I CAN do, not CAN'T. And this is what I CAN DO.

And this isn't for me to just give out all willy-nilly. Please look at this as reciprocal - I need to practice reading tarot for others and if no one uses the mea kanu I grow, it will go to waste.

You're helping me JUST AS MUCH as I hopefully will help you. Mahalo piha for all you're doing. Keep going.

Remember: nā kūpuna is watching us. Make ʻem proud and be pono.

#forlahuibylahui by @cayr_beyr

Fun Fact: I hate being perceived.

But we can't keep hiding, and staying quiet. Making excuses. Allowing our egos to keep us in a place of pain because we cannot allow ourselves to be imperfect, to be confronted, to be SEEN.

Kanaka will say:
That's not how I was raised...
I don't know how...
My own people will judge me...
I'm too busy...
Not my fight...
I don't trust so-and-so...
I got burned before...

It's all valid... but you're using it as a shield, hoa aloha. How can you grow and find your kaiāulu being stuck in your lepo? How can you move through life to find your kūlana and your kuleana if you won't allow yourself to give and receive within lāhui?

And to lāhui:
How can you not hold space for our people who know nothing, who haven't healed their trauma, who want to break generational cycles but you won't kākoʻo or give ʻike? Who haven't the privilege to live on 'āina, born on ʻāina, learn to be kānaka. That's not anyone's fault.

We're victims of colonization. And not every kanaka is built like YOU.

This is why when kānaka ke kūkākūkā nei, we do so in a circle. Because it's easier to MEET EVERYONE IN THE MIDDLE.

We gotta start reaching out and learn to catch everyone making the leap. We can't afford to lose people, lāhui.

Let's start bringing people into the fold. Ola.

#hulihia #kanakaoiwi #kanakamaoli by @cayr_beyr

Lualualei, Oʻahu | Talk Story About Giving Time, Mana or Money

Brah, I no like hear about how many times I said right or my heavy breathing. It's nerves, not fatness. 🤣

I don't like to video myself. I never know what to say and I never say it well. So, kala mai if this comes off negatively in any way. Just trying to show what I'm doing. Giving what I can.

It's about being active in community. It's about passing the baton to those who can run the rest of the way. This isn't the time to clout chase or get likes. This is activation. This is uplifting.

This is not the time to be hilahila, you guys. This is the time to lock in. If I can sit in discomfort in front of a camera, while other people are boots on the ground doing the damn thing, then you can too.

I just hope by showing what I can give and what I'm doing, it helps one another person do the same. And so on, and so forth.

People need help. Help them.

#landbackmovement #forlahuibylahui #donate #waianae #northshore by @cayr_beyr

Nānākuli, Lualualei, Oʻahu | De-colonization Kine Tingz

One thing kānaka don't talk about is how slow de-colonization can be. We're six generations into an illegal occupation. We are low-man on the totem pole, according to statistics. We're fighting battles on multiple fronts - economic, job security, housing, food, mental, emotional, physical. Our people would rather imitate another culture than be kānaka. We're losing ʻāina, wai, poʻe Hawaiʻi, the kūleana kahiko that our ancestors passed down. We have to unravel so much hakākā, so much hewa, so much pilikia - all BEFORE getting to what we ACTUALLY need to do. The process is SLOW for a reason.

We're told by people, "Let the old ways go! It doesn't exist anymore, why try?" Even our own kūpuna say that. They don't want to go back to ʻāina living, of hardship, of SURVIVAL. That was hard - now its easy.

All because we cling to a reality that scares us if we deviate from its path.

It's so much easier to stay plugged into the matrix than to take the red pill. And even at that, some of you fakas is taking BOTH pills 🤣

And I don't blame you.

De-colonization is hard. It's the hardest thing our kauhale is going through. But still, we do. Why? Because the alternative is so much worse. Because what we value is not equivalent to what we need. We'd rather stay stressed, stay in boxes, stay working jobs for haole corporations that will throw you out on the streets if it saves them money. We don't value our time, our mana, our kino, our waiwai. We have all we need HERE in Hawaiʻi pae ʻāina. All it takes is a little shift in perspective. A shift in values.

We're doing that work. But we can only go as fast as the slowest person in our ʻohana. Why? Because this isn't worth doing if my ʻohana isn't into the work. What's the point of me and my kāne learning ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi, planting mea kanu, learn about the mea kanu we plant, read nā puke about Hawaiʻi, go out into community, kākoʻo lāhui, do ALLLLL this work... only for my keiki to stay pressed about going Disneyland.

Brah, fuck dat MOUSE. You got Donald Ducks, now okay? Go feed ʻem the kale, brah. Kilokilo, babies. And learn.
#forlāhuibylāhui #fordaaina #kanakakinetings by @cayr_beyr

Lualualei, Nānākuli, Oʻahu | Storm Watch

What is it about kānaka and poʻe Hawaiʻi that when a storm is about to hit, we do the most?

I'm out here, taking care of 2-day old ducklings, picking popolo berries and watching ʻiwa float amongst ominous gray clouds. Storm? What storm? (Just kidding, I know it's coming.)

The rain has been kind. So has the wind. Most don't see it that way, but I do. This storm could be much more worse than what we're experiencing and (knock on wood), it hasn't. There are moments - pockets of relief - to recover and brace for the next onslaught. Mother Nature usually doesn't grant reprieves. She will rage and bellow and will rip away what isn't secure. Much like Life - or Akua, nā akua, nā ʻaumakua, Iesū, Buddha, Source, the Universe... pick your flavor, it's all the same nourishing food. Take advantage of these little pockets of relief. Take advantage of these slow times. Go see what needs doing and go do it before the chance is gone.

Float like the ʻiwa while the winds are calm. Prepare yourself for the things to come. If you can kilo, you can hoʻomākaukau.

In these gentle moments, I think of the people without right now. Without water, without food, without shelter, without ʻohana, without friends, without anything. It makes me think of the lack of resources I have to kākoʻo them. But, it makes me think of what I DO have and what I CAN do.

I have extra canned goods. I have extra bottles of water. I have a car. I have feet. I have hands. I may not have the strength to go out into the community to look these people in the eye and tell them it's going to be alright - I lost all my mental fortitude taking care of my dad before he passed.

But I know of people who CAN do those hard things. They just need resources. I have a few. I can do that much, I think. by @cayr_beyr

Read a Civil Beat article today and came across a poorly written comment.

I did the only thing I could do: I fixed whatever grammatical and/or spelling errors for them! There were quite a lot and it was a slog, but we powered through the edits!

We try to do the right thing out here, one perspective at a time.

Let me know if you see any other comments that need editing. I'd be more than HAPPY to lend my expertise.
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#forlāhuibylāhui #hehawaiiau #mauamau #comment #igotjokesfordays by @cayr_beyr

Just me doing some witchy-ass, kānaka kine tingz. Wat chu doing? #ealae #morningoli #gardenlife #laaulapaau #lavender by @cayr_beyr

Mālama Mākua Screening | LCC Waiʻanae Moku | January 30, 2026

I never post things I do. Or talk about them. I like to move in silence. I don't like to be judged or criticized. I don't like to be perceived. And I definitely don't like people being mahaʻoe. Lately, I've been called to share.

So, I do.

I've been slowly getting back into kaiāulu, sharing space, mana, ʻike and manaʻo with others. Blessed to speak with kūpuna and OG activists who have been integral in shaping the Aloha ʻĀina movement out here in Waiʻanae. Grateful to have their ear and to offer kākoʻo for the work they're doing. Grateful to work with people who also help. The warm welcome made the come back easier. And I'm ready to get to work, too.

Because Waiʻanae needs it. We deserve love.

I attended another screening of Mālama Mākua - my 2nd one, actually - by an amazing film maker, Mikey Inouye. Ofc, the vision and heart of the film is proliferated by the history, the perspectives and documentation of people who fought for Mākua Valley for the last 30 years. The screening is then followed by a Q&A with the director and kūpuna involved with the film. In this instance, we have Aunty Lynette, Uncle Vince, Uncle Sparky, Uncle Poka and Aunty Karen. And Mikey, ofc.

Piko, amongst other topics, were brought up in the Q&A. What does it mean to be Hawaiian? What can we do today to pick up the torch these kūpuna are passing down? Who will become kiaʻi of Mākua, of Waiʻanae, of pae ʻaina Hawaiʻi? The panelists pointed out that most of the young people - mākua, ʻopio and keiki - were gone after the film ended. But, almost all of the older crowd stayed. And why is that? We, as a community, need to have these moments to kūkākūkā.

We need to share thoughts. We need to share feelings. We need to share information. We need to listen to each other. We need to stayed informed. We need to plan. We need to dream. Together. Not apart.

And through all of this, I had a realization: What we crave as humans is connection. But kānaka? It's inherent. All we see is pilina. Our survival is BASED on pilina. And I've been starving myself of it, for one reason or another.

But... not any longer. And never again. by @cayr_beyr

It never fkng fails. Every time there's a major shift in our lives, some kind of bird outside the norm graces us with its presence. Every. Single. Time.

Owls.
Herons.
ʻAlae.
ʻIwa.
Now, add duck to the list.

My only question: Nā kūpuna... he aha tf?!?! Ke ʻoluʻolu, how come?!?!

#hoailona #maybe #whybirds #everyfuckingtime #brah by @cayr_beyr

by @cayr_beyr

Harvesting popolo. Trying to stay balanced. Trying to keep pono. Believing in the dream so much and taking action towards it to make all the difficulties WORTH IT.

Trying, trying, trying. Doing, doing, doing.

It's all I got right now.

Stay pule & pale, people. by @cayr_beyr

HULIAU O WAI‘ANAE – HALAWAI
Our voice. Our data. Our future. 🌿

Join us to talk story about how our environment and health issues that impact our kaiāulu of Wai‘anae. Your manaʻo matters what we share today can shape our ʻāina and our people.

Because data is more than numbers it’s our lived experiences. 💬

🗓 Nov 22, 2025 | 9–11 AM
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📍 Location shared after registration

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Ola i ka ʻāina, ola ke kānaka. When the land thrives, our people thrive.

#HuliauOWaianae #AlohaAina #KingdomPathways #WaianaeStrong #OurVoiceOurData #CommunityHealth #HawaiiHealth by @cayr_beyr