Kahu Soulutions

06/11/2026

06/08/2026

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
- Samuel Johnson

Art: Tianhua Xu,
Ganesha is the patron of writers, travellers, students, commerce, and new projects (for which he removes obstacles from one's path) and is rather fond of sweets, to the slight detriment of his figure.

One of the explanations of Ganesha’s broken tusk is that of Krishna throwing his axe at Ganesha after he blocked his entrance to the private apartments of his parents Shiva and Parvati. Ganesha allowed the axe to hit and break his tusk so that no-one could say that the axe, which was in fact his father’s, was not a fearsome weapon. Yet another but less picturesque explanation of Ganesha’s broken tusk was that he snapped it off in order to transcribe the epic poem Mahabharata, dictated by the sage Vyasa who wished to preserve the story for all time. This version explains Ganesha’s association with writers and intellectuals.

06/06/2026

Before there was a Philippines, there was Kapwa.
Kapwa is a pre-colonial Filipino concept that has no direct translation in English. The closest is: the self that is shared with others. It is the recognition that you and the person beside you are not separate — that your identity includes them.
It is the root of bayanihan. It is why Filipinos feed strangers. It is why an OFW sends everything home. It is why a Filipino community in California shows up when one of their own is in trouble.
Colonization tried to replace it. It is still here.
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