The sun spreads its warmth across her face . . . . . .

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The Beauty of Mauna Kea
-Keola Beaamer

(Chant):
He lei kea noho mai (The soft white lei encircle)
Ia I ka mauna (The crest of the mountain)
Ka Mauna ki'eki'eki la (The mountain high above)
Ku kilakila (Standing high above)
Kilakila no luna (Standing in great majesty)

My friend and I would sometimes roam
The trails of Mauna Kea
And in the evening we'd come home
And see her standing there

The moon moves around her when she sleeps
Ths clouds stand beside her when she weeps
And I could be forgotten and a thousand miles away
And still I would recall the beauty of Mauna Kea

Now to any land you go
She will be with you
If you love her like I do
O Mauna Kea

And I live in the city now
And I see different things
And in the nights when I'm alone
She's in my dreams

The wind spins around her when she wakes
The sun spreads its warmth across her face
And I could be forgotten and a thousand miles away
And still I would recall the beauty of Mauna Kea
(pau)

Living in the shadow of its beauty........

We lived on the slopes of Mauna Kea. It was a part of our lives, towering over us in sunlight and darkness, in sunshine and rain.

As a kid I tried climbing to its summit with my brother and a friend. (There were no roads to the summit, then). The climb took all day and into the evening. The climb on the top third of the mountain gave all of us altitude sickness. We would be puking all over the place and feeling nauseated the whole time. Gasping for breath in the oxygen poor air, we would stumble forward for five days, then fall down and rest before getting up and repeating the sequence of gasping, walking and falling down every few feet. Amazingly, we did get to the upper reaches of the mountain!

As we made our way down the mountain it had already turned dark and cold. When we got to the car, a '55 Chevy we had borrowed from a family friend, the locks had already frozen over. So we got a rock, smashed through one of its side glass vents, reached in a pulled up on the door handle thus opening the door.

So we started to set off down the unpaved, dirt road in the direction of the Saddle Road. However, no sooner than we had set off........we ran into a ditch from which we could not extricate ourselves.

I was resigned to spending a cold, cold night in the car. However, my brother saw some moving lights in the distance. We started yelling toward those moving lights. Lo and behold, it was my parents with some family friends who had come to search for us. What a relief it was to sit in the sheep stantion cabin where they had set up a command center and drink hot coffee and warm my feet by the fire.

I have never attempted to climb Mauna Kea again. But I will never stop admiring her for her majesty.

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I hope guys stay go bookmahk deese websites onto yo' favorites list!

Ok......'nough.......pau.

Posted by Roland at July 23, 2003 02:02 PM