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  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRXQRyAC6F8      Here is the Hawaiian blessing I filmed last month.
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  • I would like to upload a video I shot last month of a Hawaiian blessing for a protest, here in Kekaha. Question? can I just drag and drop from my desktop or must it be uploaded to YouTube first? It's a beautiful Hawaiian chant along with a hula dance. The song chant sounds like something between American Indian and Buddhist.
  • Very nice. Thanks for sharing.
  • Thanks, Bonnie. I appreciate your comment.
  • Beautiful, Steve. Thank you so much for sharing such touching and relevant images...
  • In response to Bonnie's Email, this poem/thoughts present themselves -

    The Places In-Between

    Place

    The where I am

    And am not

    Out of place

    Place and no-place

    One and the same

    Tragedies occurring

    Outside ourselves

    Yet affecting us

    Feeling it, feeling them

    It feeling us

    Touching us

    As we respond

    Feeling of feeling

    Pulsing

    Oscillating

    With Affinity

    Always relational

    Providing our own

    Affect in return

    In response

    To the stimulus

    That triggered the

    Process that we are

    Always a part of

    A process that

    Influences us

    As we influence it

  • Wonderful Alan,

    I especially resonate with the line "we sing silently ourselves into being." I will use this as my chant during my morning meditation. Thanks.

    Ed

  • I'd like to invite all to read something I penned sitting silently admidst a sea of shimmering ants in my Sacred Circle on the "wilderness" part of my MROP (2007) experience (while watching an orb spider climbing and lowering itself on a single strand of thread in front of me):

     

         Like dreamtime, a shiver as I recall the connections.

         Embodied in soul, dancing, nourishing, evolving,

         spinning & growing.

     

                            The spider, power in her potency

                            arrives to hold our projections, as we lower ourselves

                            into what matters. From the heart, a thread unfolds,

                            moving to the rhythm, the beauty, the caress.

     

                                         Gathering the longings, rejected parts, losses and

                                         laughter we sing silently ourselves into being.

                                         Men, in harmony and reverence, touching the wounds

                                         and allowing the re-membering to bring us home.

  • Ruth,

    Can't wait to learn from you. I had volunteered to learn mask making from a dying tribe in western Canada but the curator of the related museum stated that the last mask maker, with the agreement of the few tribe members still left, had decided his skills would die with the tribe. I look forward to seeing the pictures. First question, do you have a camera that can download pictures to your computer?

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The World as it is seen, as affirmation

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