Truth.Faith.
LOVE.
Part Hawaiian, part Pake and Scottish; and part Colombian, part Scottish (hailing from the same MacGregor clan), we breathe an air, we pulse a blood rife with culturally-salient attributes. En homage to ancestry, a word [or few]:
De Colombia:
To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not understand why no one was as disturbed as he by the clicking of her heels on the paving stones, why no one else's heart was wild with the breeze stirred by the sighs of her veils, why everyone did not go mad with the movements of her braid, the flight of her hands, the gold of her laughter. He had not missed a single one of her gestures, not one of the indications of her character, but he did not dare approach her for fear of destroying the spell.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez | El amor en el tiempo de cholera
O Hawai'i:
The breath in man is the breath of Papa. Man is merely the caretaker of the land that maintains his life and nourishes his soul. There, the 'aina is sacred. The church of life is not in a building, it is the open sky, the surrounding ocean, the beautiful soul.
-- George Helm | Founder of the Protect Kaho'olawe 'Ohana
-- George Helm | Founder of the Protect Kaho'olawe 'Ohana
Of Scotland:
O, my luve's like a red, red rose
That's newly sprung in June
O, my luve's like the melodie
That's sweetly play'd in tune
As fair art thou, my bonie lass
So deep in luve
am I
And I will luve thee still, my Dear
Till a' the seas gang dry
Till a' the seas gang dry, my Dear
And the rocks melt wi' the sun!
O I will luve thee still, my Dear
While the sands o' life shall run
And fare thee weel, my only Luve
And fare thee weel a while!
And I will come again, my Luve
Tho' it were ten thousand mile
- Robbie Burns| Bard of Scotland
‘Aumakua
'Aumakua are as much a part of Hawaiian ancestry and tradition as the showing of respect for nature and its power, blessings and splendor.
One of the groom-to-be's ‘aumakua is the pueo, (owl) the other, shark (mano).
As 'aumakua are family ancestors whose ‘uhane or spiritform watch over, protect and help the living members of their ‘ohana or extended family, it is noteworthy when they make their presence known — oftentimes by the poetry of the moment.
The encounter could be a flap of the wings, a distant call or an abundance of luck. Benevolent, ‘aumakua are as ubiquitous to living members of their families they as they are in nature.