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*And to keep her immune system strong she followed Dr. Goodhue's advice to abstain from alcohol, get plenty of fresh air and exercise, and consume a nourishing diet, low in salt. Page 144
"Fear is good. In the right degree it prevents us from making fools of ourselves. But in the wrong measure it prevents us from fully living. Fear is our boon companion but never our master.". Page 204
"I've come to believe that how we choose to live with pain, or injustice, or death ... Is the true measure of the Divine within us." ... "I used to wonder, why did God give children leprosy? Now I believe: God doesn't give anyone leprosy. He gives us, if we choose to use it, the spirit to live with leprosy, and with the imminence of death. Because it is in our own mortality that we are most Divine.". Page 307
**"With wonder and a growing absence of fear she realized, I am more than I was an hour ago.". Page 372
**my favorite!
Alan Brennert Quotes: *And to keep her immune
Rachel found herself wishing that the week would never end-that her father could stay here forever-but knew he couldn't. If there was one thing she had learned in her brief time at Kalaupapa, it was that all things end.
Alan Brennert Quotes: Rachel found herself wishing that
No. Grief and anger doesn't shock me." Catherine paused. "Rachel, do you remember that day at the convent when we saw the old biplane? Remember what I said?" Rachel laughed without amusement. "I don't even remember what I said." "'Who can doubt the presence of God in the sight of men whom He has given wings.' I recall that so precisely because I've had time to consider my error." She smiled. "God didn't give man wings; He gave him the brain and the spirit to give himself wings. Just as He gave us the capacity to laugh when we hurt, or to struggle on when we feel like giving up. I've come to believe that how we choose to live with pain, or injustice, or death…is the true measure of the Divine within us. Some, like Crossen, choose to do harm to themselves and others. Others, like Kenji, bear up under their pain and help others to bear it. I used to wonder, why did God give children leprosy? Now I believe: God doesn't give anyone leprosy. He gives us, if we choose to use it, the spirit to live with leprosy, and with the imminence of death. Because it is in our own mortality that we are most Divine.
Alan Brennert Quotes: No. Grief and anger doesn't
There is beauty in the least beautiful of things.
Alan Brennert Quotes: There is beauty in the
No land is more beautiful, and therefore more powerful. That is what I believe in, Aouli. I believe in Hawai'i. I believe in the land.
-Haleola
Alan Brennert Quotes: No land is more beautiful,
SMILE - IT NO BROKE YOUR FACE!
-on a stone in Kalaupapa
Alan Brennert Quotes: SMILE - IT NO BROKE
After a while the fear became a constant, cold companion, a simple fact of existence.
Alan Brennert Quotes: After a while the fear
Who can doubt the presence of God in the sight of men whom He has given wings?
I recall that so precisely because I've had time to consider my error. God didn't give man wings; He gave him the brain and the spirit to give himself wings. Just as He gave us the capacity to laugh when we hurt, or to struggle on when we feel like giving up.
I've come to believe that how we choose to live with pain, or injustice, or death ... is the true measure of the Divine within us. Some choose to do harm to others. Others bear up under their pain and help others to bear it.
Alan Brennert Quotes: Who can doubt the presence
How stupid could she be to think a clean person would love her
would risk death and decay and banishment for love!
Alan Brennert Quotes: How stupid could she be
The difference between Old Honolulu and New, she would come to decide, was the difference between a beautiful woman who was simply being herself and a beautiful woman calling attention to herself: a little vain perhaps, but you couldn't say she wasn't attractive.
Alan Brennert Quotes: The difference between Old Honolulu
It is enough for me to know that I left something of beauty behind and that it has thrived. I am content.
Alan Brennert Quotes: It is enough for me
Isn't it strange, how one so afraid of contracting a fatal malady ... should so earnestly wish for death, as well?
Alan Brennert Quotes: Isn't it strange, how one
But it's a poor church that cares only for what happens to a soul after it leaves this life.
-Damien
Alan Brennert Quotes: But it's a poor church
Legend holds that seesaws became popular with girls because on the upswing they were able to catch a glimpse of the world beyond their cloistered walls.
Alan Brennert Quotes: Legend holds that seesaws became
None of the patients could say the experiments didn't yield some benefits. It was the way the experiments were conducted that grated: with cold, clinical detachment. Masks, gloves, and carbolic acid were the order of the day fora ll staff, and while this may have been prudent it only made isolated people feel even more isolated.
Alan Brennert Quotes: None of the patients could
She already felt dead in everything but name. What remained to be taken from her? She longed to be enfolded, welcomed, into the earth - to breathe no more, love no more, hurt no more
Alan Brennert Quotes: She already felt dead in
She listened to a life's story that was, she discovered, richer than it was sad.
Alan Brennert Quotes: She listened to a life's
She thought for a moment, then said, When we are young, we think life will be like a su po: one fabric, one weave, one grand design. But in truth, life turns out to be more like the patchwork cloths
bits and pieces, odds and ends
people, places, things we never expected, never wanted, perhaps. There is harmony in this, too, and beauty. I suppose that is why I like the chogak po.
Alan Brennert Quotes: She thought for a moment,
Old Korean adage, "Even jade has flaws." Or, in other words: Nothing in life is ever perfect.
Alan Brennert Quotes: Old Korean adage,
Perhaps you need to look back before you can move ahead.
Alan Brennert Quotes: Perhaps you need to look
An aching vacuum inside her sucking the air from her lungs. She hung her head and wept fiercely, the emptiness inside her growing larger not smaller; she felt as though it would grow so large it would suffocate her just as surely as the sea would have
Alan Brennert Quotes: An aching vacuum inside her
By now the streets of Kalaupapa were filled with people racing for high ground - sick people crying
"Tsunami!" as nature played yet another mean trick on them, God's last best joke at their expense. It was,
after all, April Fool's Day.
Alan Brennert Quotes: By now the streets of
Summer in Honolulu brings the sweet smell of mangoes, guava, and passionfruit, ripe for picking; it arbors the streets with the fiery red umbrellas of poincianta trees and decorates the sidewalks with the pink and white puffs of blossoming monkeypods. Cooling trade winds prevail all summer, bringing what the old Hawaiians called makani 'olu' 'olu
"fair wind".
Alan Brennert Quotes: Summer in Honolulu brings the
Love, marriage, divorce, infidelity ... life was the same here as anywhere else, wasn't? She realized now wrong she'd been; the pali wasn't a headstone and Kalaupapa wasn't a grave. It was a community like any other, bound by ties deeper than most, and people here went to their deaths as people did anywhere: with great reluctance, dragging the messy jumble of their lives behind them.
Alan Brennert Quotes: Love, marriage, divorce, infidelity ...
And all they could do was sit, sleep, eat, and be reminded day after day, night after night, of their disease and eventual death.
Alan Brennert Quotes: And all they could do
Surrounded by darkness yet enfolded in light
Alan Brennert Quotes: Surrounded by darkness yet enfolded
Hawai'i has often been called a melting pot, but I think of it more as a 'mixed plate'
a scoop of rice with gravy, a scoop of macaroni salad, a piece of mahi-mahi, and a side of kimchi. Many different tastes share the plate, but none of them lose their individual flavor, and together they make up a uniquely 'local' cuisine. This is also, I believe, what America is at its best
a whole greater than the sum of it's parts.
Alan Brennert Quotes: Hawai'i has often been called
She would follow her father over the horizon and down the other side, where the world lay hidden.
Alan Brennert Quotes: She would follow her father
And sometimes she would dream again of being Namakaokahai'i, her waves rolling across burled coral beds, scattering moonlight, cresting higher and higher the farther she traveled over the reef. She was a colossus of water and motion soaring toward the black crescent of 'Awahuua Bay, her soul perched on the curling lip of the wave, riding it in the only way she could now; she felt the mana, the power in her waves, felt the rumble in her ocean depths ...
Alan Brennert Quotes: And sometimes she would dream
Love and a cough cannot be hidden.
Alan Brennert Quotes: Love and a cough cannot
Quoting an old proverb: "An empty cart rattles loudly." she said. meaning, One who lacks substance boasts loudest.
Alan Brennert Quotes: Quoting an old proverb:
- he took her in his arms and cradled her; offering her not God's comfort but his own, merely human, consolation.
Alan Brennert Quotes: - he took her in
Let the things of long ago drift away on the water
Alan Brennert Quotes: Let the things of long
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