Aloha! ~ E komo mai ~

Hope your life is filled with love & abundance.

Please take off your shoes & make yourself at home. ;)

Hope you're having a lovely day, wherever you are.

Peace & blessings,

Issil & ohana

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a new language

July 27, 2011

every day, my baby teaches me how aloha needs no words ~ her subtle language shimmers ~ a rainbow arcs from my heart to hers i gift it to her express with my fluent hands & she jumps & flaps her wings to take joyous flight ~ Read more ~

tasting honey

May 20, 2011

tonite my baby strummed my acoustic guitar my two honeys in harmony clear-toned ~ open ~ hawai'ian chords * lovely * Read more ~

Water

March 15, 2011

When da world surrenders to water, you know who truly loves you. My love, my father, and my mother called to hear my voice, check my breath, be with me if it was the End. Read more ~

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Guggenheim & US tour

January 01, 2012

Ishle's work will be exhibited this spring at the Guggenheim Museum as part of their Stillspotting Exhibit. Check it out if you're in NY! Ishle is also available to tour colleges this year as a solo artist and as one half of Ohana Nui, an island roots reggae group with her husband, Ammon Tainui Watene.They have a CD called Homegrown ~ a compilation of love & movement songs recorded while pregnant with their first child. If you'd like to bring us to your college, please contact Joan Muira at Speakout Now, or directly at issilah@gmail.com. Mahalo nui loa & God bless! Read more ~

University of Colorado Show

October 19, 2011

Aloha! Issil will be the featured artist at the University of Colorado's Take Back the Night event on October 20th, 2011. She will also be teaching a writing workshop focused on empowering women, called "The Book of Light Workshop". Blessings. Read more ~

APIA Summit ~ Twin Cities!

August 04, 2011

Blessed to be able to attend, perform & provide child-care for the 10th APIA Summit in da Twin Cities, MN! Looking forward to seeing old friends, hearing some poetry, playing music with my love, babysitting some awesome keikis & having some vacation time to play tourists on da mainland. :) Read more ~