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Posted on: Tuesday, April 27, 2004

THE LEFT LANE
Mothers at heart

Advertiser Staff and News Services

Have a hanai family member you want to honor this Mother's Day?

We mean hanai in the sense of someone who is like a mother to you, even if she doesn't share your bloodline, and even if there's no binding agreement keeping you together.

Send your essay about why the person deserves the honor, and we'll print a sampling of responses. Please identify your neighborhood and include your daytime phone number. Photos are welcome. Send entries to relationships writer Tanya Bricking Leach at tbricking@honoluluadvertiser.com or at The Advertiser, P.O. Box 3110, Honolulu, HI 96802.

Please submit by Friday.

Less mad about you

Beat back anger through storytelling and puppet play? A weekend of lectures and a workshop with two visiting peace experts promise to teach innovative ways to find harmony and manage anger through exercises, case studies, role-playing and games.

Hemlata Pokharna, a researcher at University of Chicago, and Dr. Mandakini Pokharna, who practices internal medicine in Chicago, were trained at the Center for Nonviolent Communication in La Crescenta, Calif. The sisters will give a free lecture at 7 p.m. Friday (and a follow-up workshop Sunday and Monday; $30 fee includes box lunch, $10 for students). The lecture and first day of the two-day workshop will be at Honpa Hongwanji, Hawaii Betsuin, 1727 Pali Highway; on Sunday, it moves to Central Union Church.

Information: Jerry Chang, jrchang@hawaii.rr.com, 373-3654; or Ana Zir, anazir@hawaii.rr.com, 956-5771.

Good deeds to do

Maui-based Inner Ocean Publishing's new title, "MoveOn's 50 Ways to Love Your Country" (Inner Ocean, $10.95), premiered at No. 6 on the New York Times best-seller list Sunday in the how-to category — the first time a Hawai'i-published book has done so, according to Inner Ocean's Katie McMillan. The book is a collection of 50 stories telling how ordinary citizens changed their communities for the better. It is the first in Inner Ocean's "call to action" series; other activist groups are being contracted for future projects.

MoveOn is a grass-roots movement founded in 1998 by two Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, Joan Blades and Wes Boyd, frustrated by partisan politics, waste and do-nothing officials. Information: www.innerocean.com.

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