Sun. Ocean. Blue. Breezes. Palm trees.\u00a0 Sand.\u00a0 Molokai in the distance.<\/p>\n
Aerobics this am, 7:00AM.\u00a0 Walked from here at the Westin along Maui’s west shore.\u00a0 At the end of the walkway headed north is the Maui Sheraton.\u00a0 They have provided a historical marker, set in bronze and attached to a piece of black lava.\u00a0 It explains that the lava napali (cliff)\u00a0just ahead was, in the belief of the Hawai’ian people one of the places where souls jump off for the afterlife.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The sign reminds me of the observation that developers name their work after what they removed to create it:\u00a0 Fox Run, Oak Grove Estates.\u00a0 Those are shameful, but when a hotel sits on land sacred even by the business owners admission, then we have moved into another category of insult.\u00a0 Call it blasphemy.\u00a0 Idolatry.\u00a0 Worship of a false god. Call it what you will, but imagine the feeling.<\/p>\n
It made me consider all those Catholic churches built over Celtic holywells and all the Celtic holy days sequestered by church liturgists, then absorbed into an alien creed.\u00a0 The violence done to the sacred reality of another is, often, not obvious at a historical remove, but for those of us whose ancestors dressed the wells or leapt off the cliff to paradise, we remember.<\/p>\n
At the\u00a0sacred cliff I turned around and headed out on the beach.\u00a0 Boy, did my heart rate climb while I hiked on wet sand. (I take along my cardio rate gear when I travel.)\u00a0 The ocean has its way and I forgot that, walking down below the beaches crest.\u00a0 I thought I could move fast enough to avoid the incoming surf.\u00a0 Nope.\u00a0 Sand laden shoes and socks now drying on the lanai.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Sun. Ocean. Blue. Breezes. Palm trees.\u00a0 Sand.\u00a0 Molokai in the distance. Aerobics this am, 7:00AM.\u00a0 Walked from here at the Westin along Maui’s west shore.\u00a0 At the end of the walkway headed north is the Maui Sheraton.\u00a0 They have provided a historical marker, set in bronze and attached to a piece of black lava.\u00a0 It … Continue reading Leap Into The Next World<\/span>