<\/a><\/p>\nA rainbow graces Lanai.<\/p>\n
Robin Kaye<\/p><\/div>\n
When I first came to Lanai in 1974, it was to document a very challenged lifestyle. A spinoff\u00a0of Dole Co., Oceanic Properties, had announced plans to add 10,000 more residents\u00a0with second homes, hotels and other resort developments. (That plan didn\u2019t materialize then,\u00a0but my six-month project resulted in seven years on Lanai and eventually, my photodocumentary,
\n“Lanai Folks.” But that\u2019s another story.)<\/p>\n
Some of these plans have recently\u00a0been revisited, revised and are likely to be slowly implemented by Dole\u2019s latest successor,
\nLarry Ellison.<\/p>\n
Back in the \u201870s, I said this in “Lanai Folks:”<\/p>\n
\u201cThe daily generosity, the small but important\u00a0waving between drivers on the roads, the kokua to friends and strangers, the sense of place,\u00a0of belonging, the inherent goodness and lack of guile in many of the older Hawaiians \u2014\u00a0these, and, always for me, the beauty, depth and intensity of the land make it a good place to\u00a0raise a family, or just to be.\u201d<\/p>\n
It\u2019s now 40 years later, and you know what? Not much has changed. It\u2019s still a good place\u00a0to \u201cjust be.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Many of our friends wonder what we do over here on Lanai, a place where they think\u00a0\u201cthere\u2019s nothing to do.\u201d This misses the point, because here we don\u2019t do \u201cthings,\u201d we do\u00a0people. 8 a.m. Wednesday: I\u2019m cleaning up my banana patch. My single rubbish can is already\u00a0overflowing. My neighbor, who lives on the mainland, has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6197,"featured_media":1065351,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[],"post_format":[],"project":[],"coauthors":[30567],"class_list":["post-1065058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community-voice"],"slp_mobile_featured_image":{"id":1065351,"href":"https:\/\/www.civilbeat.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1065351","image_path":"https:\/\/d1l18ops95qbzp.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/2015\/01\/unnamed-1.jpg","caption":"A rainbow graces Lanai."},"acf":[],"slp_coauthors":[{"display_name":"Robin Kaye","user_nicename":"robin-kaye","author_link":"https:\/\/www.civilbeat.org\/author\/robin-kaye\/"}],"slp_acf":{"cb_article_type":"community","cb_article_footnotes":"","cb_excerpt_type":"standard","cb_author_contributor_type":"internal","cb_article_sidebar":""},"slp_primary_category":null,"apple_news_notices":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Life on Lanai: Still a Good Place to ‘Just Be’","url":"http:\/\/www.civilbeat.org\/2015\/01\/life-on-lanai-still-a-good-place-to-just-be\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/www.civilbeat.org\/2015\/01\/life-on-lanai-still-a-good-place-to-just-be\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/d1l18ops95qbzp.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/2015\/01\/unnamed-1-150x150.jpg","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https:\/\/d1l18ops95qbzp.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/2015\/01\/unnamed-1.jpg"},"articleSection":"Community Voice","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Robin Kaye"}],"creator":["Robin Kaye"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"天美视频","logo":""},"keywords":[],"dateCreated":"2015-01-08T10:04:34Z","datePublished":"2015-01-08T10:04:34Z","dateModified":"2015-01-08T10:04:34Z"},"rendered":"