Kauai Business Report, November 2006

Clearing the Way

Space clearing brings health and prosperity to homes and businesses

Sometimes the answer to our problems is right under our noses – or within our homes and offices, as SuEllyn Hampton has often found during her years as a space clearing and feng shui consultant. Hampton, owner of Freedom's Gate Feng Shui, said that feng shui is sometimes thought of as simply rearranging furniture but it's much more than that. Coupled with space clearing, it can improve health, wealth and open the door to unexpected transformations.

Maui Entertainment Guide, April 2006

Peace Within the Rhythms

Drummer Kris Thomas finds freedom in music

It would appear that high speed drumming would be a frenzied activity, but for professional drummer and percussionist Kris Thomas, it's a voyage into the depth and freedom of music. With his dynamic stick speed, mastery of multiple styles of contemporary drumming from explosive rock and roll and high energy Latin salsa to blues, funk and reggae, Thomas is at peace with it all.

Kauai Woman, Winter 2005

Water Women

Making a life on the ocean

Spend one moment with Celeste Harvel and you know she loves her life. You'll probably hear her first - her hearty, free laugh or her exuberant exhortations to her windsurfing students at 'Anini Beach. Combine that with her smiling face surrounded by tight ringlets of hair, and you know you've met a woman who is happy to the core.

Latitude 38, December 2003

The Kindness of Strangers

If it hadn’t been for the captain and crew of the container ship Horizon Reliance, we may never have known the fate of my brother-in-law Stephen J. Brown. We still don’t have all the answers and, realistically, we never will. Thanks to the humanity and compassion of those aboard the Reliance, we know enough to understand and accept that he’s gone.

The Garden Island, Nov. 19, 2003

Traditional Canoes Provide Connection to Polynesian Voyagers

For the dedicated men who have worked for 10 years to build Kaua'i its own, traditionally designed voyaging canoe, the yearning to feel connected with their ancestors is strong." Just to understand and feel and experience the cultural background of how Hawaiians came to Hawai'i, and what the Polynesians in general as a culture accomplished throughout the Pacific," is reason for building Kaua'i's soon-to-sail voyaging canoe Namahoe, said Dennis Chun.