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Snow Angel, Sand Angel Flashcards

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The whole class will make dioramas about the season they pick out of her straw beach hat.

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“Don’t let me get winter,” I say to myself.

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I reach in and spin the papers around: winter.

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Dried branches for dormant trees

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And white glitter to sprinkle on cotton-ball bald spots.

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My father helps me finish mine.

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“Migration,” I write.

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They come home.

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“In the wintertime, the golden plover comes home to our backyard.

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He’s skinny and hungry from flying three thousand miles nonstop from Alaska!

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I put my golden plover in the middle of the field.

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But this all makes me sad.

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My eyes grow big with excitement.

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“It’s three days old,” my father sighs.

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The storm came on Wednesday night.

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“Don’t run around too much on the summit or you’ll get dizzy,” my father reminds me.

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“We’re nearly inside the heavens.”

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“There’s a lot less oxygen up here, so you better take it easy.”

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“Oh cripes,” I tell him, out of breath, and so dizzy I think I’ll be sick.

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“Protect your hands, so you don’t get frostbite.”

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Someday, I won’t have to wear my father’s old socks, loose and wet, over my cold hands.

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“This is all we’ve got.”

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“Cheer up!” my mother calls to us as she tries to snap some pictures.

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“No way!” I yell back.

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“I’ve got two tiny lava rocks for the eyes,” he says placing them in the melting mound.

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“And I found this mamane branch for his pipe,” my father says.

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My mother puts an ume where his nose would be.

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“I made this pickled plum from our own tree.”

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They stand back and admire the lumps of ice.

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He places his ugly hunting cap on the stunted lump.

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“Native Hawaiians know the names of a hundred winds and all of the oceans’ currents,” my father tells me.

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Snow Angel, Sand Angel

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“The stars, too.”

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Each and every beautiful star.

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I don’t say anything.

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I will grow wings and fly away, rise up from the highest mountain and take myself to another place, more beautiful and special than this island, the only place my father and his father before him have ever known.

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The only place I know.

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My father takes us to Hapuna Beach the day before the New Year.

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“The beach is always right in your backyard,” he says to me as he opens the car door to the smell of kiawe trees and ocean mist.”

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He starts with his own ball of wet sand.

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He covers this with fine, dry sand, then wet sand again, then dry sand.

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“And here’s some driftwood for his pipe.”

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“A smooth pebble for his nose,” offers my mother.

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I begin gathering tiny pieces of white honeycomb coral.

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My mother finds seaweed for his long hair of many colors.

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I drag the sugarcane truck inner tube to the water.

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My mother tells us the name of the creatures.

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Hinalea, beautiful green wrasse.

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Manin, striped convict tang.

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Lauhau, golden butterflyfish.

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Humuhumunukunukuapua’a, painted triggerfish.

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Snow Angel, Sand Angel

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She shows us the rise and fall of honu’s tiny head and the glide of his shiny turtle shell.

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My father names the hundred winds that carry the fragrance of these waters to us near the far reef.

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I run up and down the sloping shore, the waves catching my only when I get tired.

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At the beach, I never feel dizzy or out of breath.

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“Watch.”

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I lie down next to him.

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57
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“You can grow wings in this place,” he says, “this very beautiful place that we know so well.”

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But I am not sad.

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The setting sun is a volcanic orange sphere hovering above the horizon.

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Climate zones are the weather patterns and temperatures of an area.

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Snow Angel, Sand Angel - Author’s Note

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From the time I was a little girl, I learned so much about endangered plants and animals, all living things, and life-giving materials like water, dirt, stones, and sand found nowhere else in the world.

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Snow Angel, Sand Angel - Author’s Note

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Sometimes we think we are more powerful than the plants, insects, animals, rivers, rocks, sand, moss, and trees that have been here for millions of years, but really, we are equal in the eyes of God.

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Snow Angel, Sand Angel - Author’s Note

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In fact, scientists call my home the Endangered Species Capital of the World.

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Snow Angel, Sand Angel - Author’s Note

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It will allow scientists from many nations to study the evolution of our universe and even explore thousands of galaxies beyond our own.

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Snow Angel, Sand Angel - Author’s Note

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The kia’i want to do what is right for Mother Earth - to protect her and honor her.

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Snow Angel, Sand Angel - Author’s Note

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Many indigenous peoples, like our kia’a, struggle for rights to safeguard their sacred lands.

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Snow Angel, Sand Angel - Author’s Note

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My hope remains for you to respect and take care of the sacred living and life-giving gifts where you live.

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Then you, like me, can tell your children, and their children, about your courage in protecting the place you called home.

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Snow Angel, Sand Angel - Author’s Note

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An explosion of lava from volcano crater? A stretch of beach with white, black or even green crystals of sand?

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Snow Angel, Sand Angel - Author’s note

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