Hope the teaching goes well.

Joanna

Joanna

Thanks for sharing it. I’ll treasure those words.

Joanna

I don’t think of sunsets with Ka l? hiki ola normally, but that may be because I am not a night person by nature. Yet those who may feel they are, could certainly have their Ka l? hiki ola moments then… You helped inspire me yet again Joanna, with how I finished the progression of my Mauna Lani photo set just now! If I may have just one more link, you’ll see what I mean: http://www.flickr.com/photos/rosasay/sets/72157605699480400/

Emily, I cheered out loud when I came back here and saw your comment, for when reading this earlier I was also trying to find these words from you, and Twitter was not cooperating with me! Thank you so much; this is a wonderful place for them to be, and I have now just added them to my Tumblr too. I’ll put that link with my comment name if you wish to see it. Your thoughtfulness was such a gift then, and now it will continue for me in three treasure places!

Sunbeams
~by Hafiz

Even
after
all this time
the sun never says to the earth,

“You owe me.”

Look
what happens
with a love like that –

it lights the whole
world.

Robert, it’s a powerful wake up call right enough. I’m glad you enjoyed it.

Brad, thanks for sharing that prose poem. I can feel your wonder in those words.

Karen, I can picture you doing just that, because your words and actions reflect that sense of wonder and the peace that you gain from it. (No blushing, please)

Rosa, isn’t billowing such a wonderful word? Imagine having the idea to connect that to language. The words you teach us and share with us do billow though – with aloha, and with the wind I guess, that once helped us to navigate our way round the world.

I was tempted to include another photo of yours too – I’ll pop the link here for those who are reading the comments. It’s magnificent. A beautiful capture of the sun, floating towards the horizon, before she’s gone.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rosasay/2592453176/

Thanks for your wonderful teaching this month Rosa, in words, by voice, and with your photos.

Joanna

The poem in total is so grand and all encompassing, and it will be one that I sit with often in my morning pages to come (in but one exercise within my own Joanna-inspired coaching with writing!) At this first reading, this is the part that leapt off the page at me, daring me to own it, doing so fearlessly:

“do you think there is anywhere, in any language,
a word billowing enough
for the pleasure
that fills you”

There are several words, and the three Joanna-connected words that come to mind for me at this moment are Ka l? hiki ola, Mahalo, and your spirit spiller’s Aloha. Because of them, I am now “billowing.”

Karen