Day 225: This is Getaway Week, because I’m on the island of Kauai, The Garden Isle, and it’s definitely a get away for me. I’m typing this while I sit on the beach under a tree, marveling at the color of the water and the sea turtles body-surfing the waves. Not my normal Monday.
This morning, we chartered a helicopter tour. The pilot gave us a birds-eye view of the entire island. It was the most thrilling experience. And reverential. The grandeur of what God created for us is incomprehensible. What a beautiful world we live in. The people here show respect for the beauty of the earth. It reminds me to do the same.
When I was a little girl, my mom taught me a hula dance and explained that each movement told a story. I have no idea where she learned it. I wish I could ask her. The words were “Oh, we’re going to the hukilau, the huki huki huki huki hukilau. Everybody loves the hukilau, where the laulau is the kaukau at the hukilau. We throw our nets out into the sea, and all the amaama come a swimming to me. Oh we’re going to the hukilau, huki huki huki huki hukilau.” My mom would have loved everything about this place.
A shopkeeper in Kapa’a picked two flowers out of his tree and handed them to my daughter-in-law and me with the instructions “It goes behind your left ear if you’re taken, and behind your right ear if you’re takin’ applications.”
There is an old photograph of Mom as a young woman with a flower in her hair. I wish I could ask her the story. Did she know about the meaning? Or was she just enjoying the beauty of God’s creations? Either way, I better wear a flower behind my ear in her honor today. #MomsCompanyTowels #GetawayWeek #FlowerBehindYourEar #GoingToAHukilau
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