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Matthew Dekneef

@mattdknf

writer, editor

 Hawaii
instagram.com/mattdknf
Joined March 2009
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I'm I'll buy a $20 bottle of wine years old now.
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Wrote about some beautiful Hawaiians for @them.
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“To be māhū is a blessing,” reminds Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu. “To be māhū is greater than the gender binary—male, female, those are the ordinary people. I can see the world from two different sides.” More at @them: bit.ly/3i7Q1dP 📸 Mahina Choy-Ellis.
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Scarfing down a hamburger over the hood of my idling car between jobs while Dion plays on the radio
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Solving Wordle in da club.
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Naming themselves “developers” is an astounding PR strategy.
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My first order of business as a gay Polynesian uncle is to not let my niece grow up thinking “Landslide” is an original song by Josh Tatofi. This island girl will know Stevie Nicks!!!
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I’d rather tip housekeepers at hotels $75 then pay a cleaning fee to an airbnb host.
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If I text you “🥭” it means my heart doing the tango
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Hit a noseride on a long left just as a catamaran was passing by everyone aboard started cheering and I felt so embarrassingly cool 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Summer so far; Patterns of abundance. – at Honolulu, HI
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The 2022 Class of the CAPE New Writers Fellowship as follows (L-R | T-B) . . . ⭐Kiran Alamelu Subramaniam (@subrawoman) ⭐Kat Jiang (@KatJiang) ⭐Liz Fields (@lianzifields) ⭐Matthew DeKneef (@mattdknf) ⭐Kirk Damato (@kirksays) ⭐Sowmya Ashokkumar ⭐Sandra Hamada (@sandyhamada)
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Hawaiʻi stay evergreen – at Honolulu, HI
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Local journalism thrives when the people in charge of it are personally invested in the community — and when those people understand that good journalism speaks truth to power regardless of who holds it. 7/
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Kana‘ina, the Hawaiian chief who struck the first blow to Capt. Cook on February 14, 1779. A ship’s journal recounts: “Kaneena [sic] especially, whose portrait Mr. Webber has drawn, was one of the finest men I ever saw.” Happy Valentine’s Day to this man.
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“A Man of the Sandwich Islands with his Helmet,” 1779, portrait by John Webber on Cook’s 3rd voyage.
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Lyft driver said “land back,” barista threw in a free poi donut. Lāpule living.
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Not wordle, just entering a local person’s house 🟫🟫🟫🟫🟫 🩴🟫👡👡🟫 🟫🟫🩴🩴🟫 🟫👟👟🟫🟫 🟫🟫🟫👠🟫 🩰🟫👡🥿🟫 🟫👞👠👞🟫 🟫🟫🟫🥾🥾 🥿🟫🩴🩴🟫 🟫🟫🟫🟫🟫
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Franco Salmoiraghi’s timely “I Ola Kanaloa! I Ola Kakou: Photographs of Kaho‘olawe, 1976–1987” on view at Arts & Letters. Never-before-seen images of early Protect Kaho‘olawe ‘Ohana access trips as activists worked to end the U.S. Navy’s bombings of the island.
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