playlist: a place i'd rather be (hawai'i)

there is a place i'd rather be.

it's somewhere very far away. somewhere that i cannot recall, somewhere that i cannot name.

but somewhere that i know from whence i came. and somewhere that i can still place just the same.

perhaps a different world, perhaps a different life, perhaps a different time, perhaps a place that is still mine.

i think of it now and then, at moments when i'm alone, at moments when i'm lost, at moments when all is lost. at moments when i stand at the precipice and look out upon the abyss and see the face of chaos and hear its roar and feel its power and know the darkness that seeks to consume this world.

at moments when what i need the most is a spark of hope that starts a flame that brings a light that opens day that rests in stillness that finds the serenity that is the truth of eternity lain out all before me like a map to the meaning of the soul. and reminds me that there is good in this world.

there's a place i'd rather be.

it's somewhere very far away. somewhere that i cannot recall, somewhere that i cannot name.

but i know where it will be.

and i know that i can find it.

because, you see, it's in me.

keali'i reichel "kawaipunahele": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIovxJK5rQo

keali'i reichel "maunaleo": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PA1xzuP0nkI

keali'i reichel "in my life": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MynGNffwV0g

jake shimabukuro "hula girl": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9iJy5-COAA

kina grannis and david choi "my time with you": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2ehcBDfFFc

namakana: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkqj4y8WQPc

carl ray villaverde "he'eia": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mW5_chAgg8c

note: yeah i know 2 of the groups above aren't really from hawaii or hawaiian. but they involve ukuleles. that and the music fits. so i figure it makes them close enough.