Kahalu`u flags

On my bike ride today, I took photos of flags being flown in solidarity with the anti-TMT kia`i. As I was taking a photo of a pick-up truck with an upside down state flag in it (next to a KAPU) sign, I heard a man call out, "what are you taking a picture of?" I walked toward the house and saw a man and a woman inside. "You live near here?" he asked, and I said yes. "I hope you don't mind, I've been taking photos of flags on my bike ride. I don't know what I think of the telescope, really, but I have one friend who stayed in a rental car there for a week and did security, and another who got arrested," I heard myself say in an accent that carried more lilt than usual. "We know people there, too," they said. I wished them well, and got back on my bike. At home, one of our Hawaiian neighbors said he noticed my team (the Cards) is doing really well right now. I said Kolten Wong's been wearing "Ku Kia`i" (protectors) on his sleeve. "What does that mean?" he asked.