Help Apela Who Lost Everything in Hawaiian Fires

My friend and Elder/Auntie, Apela Colorado lost her husband suddenly recently and this week lost everything in the Hawaiian fires. Please help with $15, $150, $1500, $150,000, or more. Every time we "check-in" with loved ones in an emergency, we want to hear, "I'm safe." Yesterday, this is my WhatsApp exchange with Apela. Thank you for helping in any way you can.

AUG 9, 2023 VIA WHATSAPP:

MICHELLE: Apela, are you safe from fires? Love you, Michelle

APELA: The town burnt down. My and Chynas house gone. I have what I'm wearing, my car and computer.

MICHELLE: Oh no Apela. How may I help you??? What can I do?

APELA: I don't know.

MICHELLE: If you'd like I can start a GoFundMe campaign. I can also Venmo money if you need it. Or put feelers out for housing and help. I am here, Apela. Have faith. Help is on its way my love.

APELA: Thank you THANK YOU. Yes Go Fund - must replace everything ...

Read more about Apela Colorado's selfless service to the world: https://1earth-institute.net/about-us/apela-colorado/

(PHOTO CREDITS: Apela and I are on a Zumba cruise when I turned 50 years old. Video highlights https://youtu.be/aKiJc4l03-o)

(Cover photo of neighborhood hurricane fire used with permission: Adobe: Zane/Wasabi Publicity)

GO FUND ME SECURITY QUESTIONS

1. Who you are and where you're from

I am Michelle Tennant, living in the Great Smoky Mountains (30 minutes from Asheville North Carolina in Hendersonville | East Flat Rock neighborhood)

2. Your relationship to the people you're raising funds for

I am raising money for my Elder, Apela Colorado whom I met in Ceremony in a Hawaiin gathering called Wisdom Weavers. See the documentary from that gathering here: https://www.wisdomweavers.world/

3. How the funds will be spent and how they'll be delivered (be specific as possible)

ALL of the money will be given directly to Apela Colorado and her family and community to heal from this devasting fire.

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Pray with me:

Written by Wendy Whiteman, Wolf Walker Collection

To the Creator, for the ultimate gift of life, I thank you.

To the mineral nation that has built and maintained my bones and all foundations of life experience, I thank you.

To the plant nation that sustains my organs and body and gives me healing herbs for sickness, I thank you.

To the animal nation that feeds me from your own flesh and offers your loyal companionship in this walk of life, I thank you.

To the human nation that shares my path as a soul upon the sacred wheel of Earthly life, I thank you.

To the Spirit nation that guides me invisibly through the ups and downs of life and for carrying the torch of light through the Ages. I thank you.

To the Four Winds of Change and Growth, I thank you.

You are all my relations, my relatives, without whom I would not live. We are in the circle of life together, co-existing, co-dependent, co-creating our destiny. One, not more important than the other. One nation evolving from the other and yet each dependent upon the one above and the one below. All of us a part of the Great Mystery.

Thank you for this Life.

Aho Mitakuye Oyasin