"Return"

"Return" by Lunel Haysmer (C)

"Return"

In the beginning we are light.

Then we become solid and heavy.

Finally, we remember how to fly

and we return.

This year many of us have said farewell to members of our ohana, including Phil's mom, Margaret.

Down at MacKenzie Park on the ocean here in PUNA, there is a pohaku stone everyone knows -- moved by the power of the ocean waves to its resting place on the edge of a outflow of pahoehoe overlooking the ocean.  One day when I was meditating on it, I thought it moved!  Returning home I wanted to capture something of the transformation that my eye could not see, but that my heart felt. The meaning of the word "PO" includes Original Darkness.  However, like many cultures around the world, its meaning reflects a place of Infinite Potentiality, the birth place from which everything comes.  In physics it would be that space/moment just before the Big Bang. As we say goodbye to our loved ones, we are bidding them farewell on their return flight home.