Tie Dye & Guitars...
It was his first time back to the islands since before he could remember times on the beach with his Mom and Dad…and she (his Mom) gave me a list of photos to take, knowing that someday they would have more meaning than at the very moment they were taken. Who knew that day would come so quickly?
And on the list was to take him to the hospital where he was born. They joked and acted silly for the majority of the time, until I called the shot to be serious for even just a moment. This one’s for your Mom I said, and he stopped at the top of the stairs and smiled…
As they walked down the hill, I picture myDarlin’ Robert Kenui Pope climbing the stairs a little over sixteen years prior to this moment, excited beyond belief to see his newborn baby son at the same hospital. The present swirls into the past with the blink of an eye, and I am looking at the very same guitar t-shirt myDarlin’ is wearing in this photo finding its’ home in his son’s quilt.
This t-shirt found its’ way into myDarlin’s closet during a trip to Savannah a few years prior. He was so excited to find a tie dye shirt in the shape of a guitar, representing his love for music. And he wore this special t-shirt as we walked on the shores of the ocean on the east coast.
Today myLord, I am grateful to ‘connect the dots’, tying memories from the past to the present to the future. My hope is that he will always remember this day, standing with his Dad wearing this shirt with the hospital in the background, knowing the joy he felt welcoming his baby boy into the world. Malama pono…
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