Aloha! I am launching a web site for my recently published book, Kealohapauole , A Love That Never Ends! The name refers to Hawaiians’ deep love for the living spirit of their ancestors, as well as for the cultural landscape beneath which they lie. The burial practices of the Hawaiian culture of old left a landscape of burial sites where the deceased were laid to rest, often with objects that were important to them. Their prepared bones were wrapped in home produced kapa cloth and placed in a lava tube here or there, or in a cave, even beneath the sand on the shore. When the remains were laid to rest, it was expectation of the descendants that they would lie safely forever.

Sadly, many in the modern world believe that their plans for that same landscape should take priority. History and culture be damned! Many of them wrongly believe it would be impossible to develop in Hawaii without destroying what has been left behind.

That’s what this book is about. The age old gulf between two schools of thought, one Western, one Hawaiian. It’s the story of the Kona, Hawaii community’s ongoing twenty year effort to effect change – to change peoples minds. The battle has been fought on the streets, in the courts, at countless public meetings, at hours and hours of Burial Council proceedings, in the halls of Congress…but most importantly, on the ground and with the guidance of the ancestors.