Vicky Durand’s Adventure Blog #27

August 7, 2023

Welcome to Blog 27

It has been a grand and glorious week starting last Friday when my daughter Marcie arrived in Hana and we met them at Hana Farms for salad and pizza. This was the beginning of many fun activities.

I covered Sat. lunch in last blog. My architect Mireille and husband Harold flew in and we all had dinner at the Ranch restaurant Saturday night. A new treasured friend, Carol, had the haku lei made and surprised me at the restaurant.

Sunday morning my two friends and major helpers Alana and Megan arrived on the early plane into Hana.On the way back we went to the bay to see the Saturday unveiling of the Queen Ka’ahumanu statue. Ka’ahumanu was the daughter of the Great Maui King Kekaulike and Ha’alo’u. She was born in a cave just around the corner from the Bay. The statue is a beautiful addition to the Bay which is a meeting, swimming, canoeing and resting place.

Sunday afternoon Indrajit arrived with Jessie (kalo specialist), Brittany (voyager) and film maker/producer Alex. They all helped with some stuff here and trimmed the lichee tree so we could eat lichee.

Sunday eve we had dinner for twelve and that was a task with a camp kitchen, but it turned out really great. After dinner we all sat around a big bon fire while Alex filmed us talking about our coconut project.

The land blessing on Monday was beyond fabulous! After six months of talking on the phone and planning a date, it finally happened! Lei’ohu Ryder along with her partner Maydeen ‘Iao drove out from Kula. Lei’ohu is a Hawaiian spiritual leader, visionary, singer/songwriter, healer, and educator. They are truly Kumu with amazing Aloha. They did a magnificent job and it was the best having them along with so many friends and family here on this special land. After the ceremony we all enjoyed a delicious lunch prepared by chef minded farms under the fragrant Pak Lan tree.

Over the next days everyone slowly drifted back to their own places. I miss them all, but I am very happily here on my pu’uhonua with wonderful memories along with big dreams and plans for the future.

What especially comes to mind today as I write this is the famous quote from mother. “You are today where your thought have bought you. You will be tomorrow where your thoughts have taken you.”

Wishing everyone similar thoughts and thanks for tuning in. I am so sorry that many of the wonderful pictures were taken in video and I am having trouble loading them into blog. Maybe by next week I will have some help.

Aloha Nui

Vicky