Kwanzaa is a celebratory period of seven days from December 26 - January 1 that acknowledges spirit, the ancestors, and seven principles for living more harmoniously in a ritual that is popular with many African Americans. It celebrates certain values to be embraced by the community, the family, and the individual to help create better, more productive, and fulfi lled lives. Although the African American community is small in the Hawaiian Islands, resident groups of African Americans and their friends and families gather together in a tradition to celebrate the 7 principles of Kwanzaa at the end of each year. The principles are: umoja, ujima, ujamaa, kujuchagulia, nia, kuumba, and imani. Dr. Ayin M. Adams has put together this delightfully creative and informative book to share the philosophical values, cultural poetry, recipes, and photographs of the unique beauty of the Hawaiian Islands and enhance the meaning, scope, depth, and intimate ritual of Kwanzaa.

For Ladies Only: Dedicated to the Color Pink is a moving and revealing small book in poetic verse about a major health problem, breast cancer, from unique personal perspective of the birth, development and growth of breasts. It is a healing sometimes humorous journey from dawn to night, from birth to death in the shadow of cancer, a group of diseases that is often still uncontrollable cellular growth affecting different parts of the body, but in women most often the breasts. Adams' personifies breasts as dear and intimate friends who are as essential as organs, as necessary as limbs, as nurturing as companions that accompany one through each of life's stages, rituals and processes. Her focus is on the affirmation of breasts, will, the unity of women in gender/health issues ending in a declaration of hope for a cure and an affirmation of the joys of life's intimate moments.

In this book, Adams presents a collection of essays on Hawaiian and Black histories in the Islands, discusses the historical keepers of black culture, interviews selected outstanding black residents who talk story and ethics, chewing the water. She presents significant cultural and community organizations and events of people working together. She shares speeches of Barack Obama in an effort to situate and dignify blacks in Hawaii and their significant and often overlooked and forgotten roles in the values basic to democracy: "we not me," freedom, equality and justice under the law, values of citizenship, service, community, family, the sacred environment, spirituality, compassion, health care reform, the end of poverty and homelessness, the development of a progressive and practical and empowering educational system, the history, formation and representation and diversity in the formation of the Hawaiian Islands after the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy.

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The Woods Deep Inside Me is a collection of pure soul poetry that embraces life in all its ultimate totality. Experiencing nature as a spiritual healer to whom you surrender your pains and offer your dreams, then bury the scars of the past and start the cleansing process of new beginnings.
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Walking Through My Fire covers an important chapter in Ayin’s life, a showcase of determination with which she walked the long road from early childhood in Brooklyn New York, to slowly growing throughout all the passages of life into the mature, whole, strong, positive human being she is today. Ayin has created for herself, a future full of positive, spiritual strength surrounded by the healing beauty of Maui. Walking Through My Fire is a poetic manifesto of a journey through the past, arriving in the now and looking fearlessly forward into the veiled mystery of the future.
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Writing a love poem is not easy for poets. Writing love poems with just that little extra flavor of erotica is a challenge. Throughout the creative writing process, you are walking a thin line and praying that you do not fall into the trap of using explicit metaphors. Award-winning poet, Ayin Adams has demonstrated this with elegance while avoiding potholes along her walk in Sappho's Garden. Ayin continues to surprise us by revealing another aspect of her rich spectrum of poetic talent. After much debate with her spiritual side, Ayin's first ever erotic book is born

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This spiritual talk deals with how to handle pressure. I walk without hurrying and I work without strain, for I am in tune with the Spirit of the Universe. What needs to be don, will be accomplished in the right and perfect way, in the right and perfect time, and I will know.

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Walking into a New Day, A New You and beginning anew. You can start your day over at any time, any moment of the day. Just by giving yourself permission.

A spiritual talk on coming to terms with one as a complete and whole person and understanding who we are.

What happens to us spiritually when we refuse to forgive? What costs do we pay. Learn what the High Cost of Unforgiveness is all about and how we may align ourselves.

Excerpt: It’s not about finding the right person, but being the right person. And when you’re being the right person, you naturally attract the right person into your life. Making a Divine commitment to your partner’s well being as well as your own. This CD is a most powerful workshop on love and loving relationships.