February 6, 2021
Dear All,
Thank you for trusting me with your handwritten prayers to the volcano goddess.
When I took your prayers to the edge of Halema’uma’u Caldera, I knelt under the tree where hula kuma, masters of Hawaiian chant and dance, leave their ho’okupu offerings while singing ancient mele prayers. It was very sad. I felt your grief and your pain of holding onto something you cannot have. It was like the vast empty smoldering caldera was inside your heart, not outside of it.
You have to let go of the pain of not having your wish fulfilled. That pain is keeping you from fulfilling your wish.
If you really really love that thing that you want—-do something as an act of your love.
Do not demand. Do not force your wish to come to you. Just do something—-where your wish can see you from where it resides up in heaven—-and I want you, with your heart, to show your wish that you love it with all your being. And that wish will see what you did there, that you built something, you created a project, you did something grandiose, because the love within you inspired you to, as a monument, a memorial to your unspoken wish.
Heaven cannot resist the call of a pure love.
Your prayers have been burnt upon the caldera. It is cleansed of your pain. Now, call it back to you from heaven by building something here on earth for it to come back to.
This is a small lock of12 inches of my hair wrapped around flowers which I gave to the volcano goddess. The rest of my hair I donated to Locks of Love, an organization that makes wigs for cancer patients.
