Ha'iku Ponowai

Ha'iku Ponowai

“It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing.

It doesn’t interest me how old you are.
I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love,
for your dreams,
for the adventure of being alive.

It doesn’t interest me what planets are squaring your moon.
I want to know if you have touched the centre of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life’s betrayals or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain!

I want to know if you can sit with pain,
mine or your own,
without moving to hide it or fade it or fix it.

I want to know if you can be with joy,
mine or your own,
if you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful, be realistic, or to remember the limitations of being human.

It doesn’t interest me if the story you’re telling me is true.
I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself, if you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul.

I want to know if you can be faithful and therefore be trustworthy.

I want to know if you can see beauty even when it is not pretty every day, and if you can source your life from God’s presence.

I want to know if you can live with failure,
yours and mine,
and still stand on the edge of a lake and shout in the silver of the full moon, “Yes!”

It doesn’t interest me to know where you live or how much money you have.

I want to know if you can get up after the night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone, and do what needs to be done for the children.

It doesn’t interest me who you are, how you came to be here.
I want to know if you will stand in the centre of the fire with me and not shrink back.

It doesn’t interest me where or what or with whom you have studied.
I want to know what sustains you from the inside when all else falls away.

I want to know if you can be alone with yourself,
and if you truly like the company you keep
in the empty moments.”

THE INVITATION
by Oriah Mountain Dreamer

This is a composite of three photographs. Two of a sunset sky over Ho’okipa and one of a lovely young woman I photographed at the annual Ha’iku Flower Festival.
The two sunset images are stitched one over the other. I erased the background of the image of the young woman. I then stitched/layered the images together and selectively desaturated the colours. I then applied a slight Gaussian Blur to the sky using the Lasso Tool to make my selection. Then, I flattened the layers and smoothed the digital noise.

Copyright © Sharon Mau 2009
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Being Alive by Joseph Campbell

“People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life.
I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking.
think what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances within our own innermost being and reality,
so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.”

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