Legacy

It is the gifts I inherited from the ones before me and I ponder on the things I have or the things I do, that were transferred to me.

The features on my face perhaps was one thing that was bequest unto me, an attribute that makes me….me.

I have possessions, both tangible and not, that also make me who I am. That has in essence trained me, and whether I knew it or not was preparing me for life.

The execution of study that when applied displayed the knowledge or the cognition process that when in practice was about the learning.

This then becomes the pattern, the activities, and/or exercises of my unique genetic endowment that become my normal and the implementation set forth by effort is engrained in what is hereditary.

I set the example or even become a model. For it is through the usage and utilization of all that is my legacy I pass on and ultimately is what I do.

It is therefore that I conclude:

Legacy is what was done,
what we do, and will continue to do.
What I do is—LEGACY!

We will continue to ride the rodeo—LEGACY!
We will continue to wrap the Pā‘ū—LEGACY!
We will continue to plant tomorrow’s homeland forests—LEGACY!
Stories will continue to be told upon cultural landscapes—LEGACY!

To each and every ‘ohana and the legacy that you hold I say, “Ea—Life!”

Contact writer and photographer Ku‘ulei Keakealani