"Come Away" Home Page

Because my Picture Gallery is full and there is something amiss with the SiteDelux software that I use to create this site, I am unable to add the cover photo for the dvd as I have with my other videos. Maybe in time, Bizland will work it out. It's not their fault. There's a glitch in the software. Hope you don't mind.

     This is my original Banana Patch Fantasy Productions theme song. The main footage is from 1982. One clip at end of song was filmed in Feb 2013. The stream was so loud I had to cut the sound and added the song track from my
On Beautiful Maui album :
(Mynah Bird link on this website. Scroll down)
    The song track was longer than the footage I had, so I went out and made a clip to cover that excess. While I was setting up
the camcorder, a  beautiful Hawaiian woman appeared. I was filming on her property. Her name is Mo'i. That means Queen in her language. She sure lived up to her name that day when she recorded the clip for me. She did a really great job!
I want to thank her for her generousity and understanding.
I was afterall tresspassing on her land.
Mahalo (thank you) Mo'i for your Aloha and Kokua (helpfulness).

   I came to the Hawaiian Islands when I was 21 years old
in 1964 seeking refuge from the cruel racists
during the Civil Rights Movement.
My boyfriend and I were working for the
Hata family in Haiku. When we finished that job,
another worker there, Mr. Freitas, directed us to
the Joseph family who had a banana patch off of
Kapakalua Road in Haiku where the
old LDS Church stood at that time.
They needed someone to help keep the grass down
around the banana trees and also wanted someone
to live down there to keep tresspassers and thieves out.
They had a house in Kokomo where they lived.
They invited my boyfriend and I to live in the little
shack by the stream. It was a lovely place to live.
No electricity but we didn't need it.
It was a great experience for me, a disabled orphan
from New York City. Mrs. Joseph kind of adopted me.
She taught me alot about her culture.
She even taught me how to plant kalo (taro).
We harvested it and cleaned it together.
She laughed when my hands were stinging
from the sap of the kalo. Then we cooked it
over an open fire in a saloon pilot cracker tin
before pounding it into poi.

I remember how we were sitting by the stream together
when she handed me the poi pounder.
We made the poi in her mother's mango wood bowl.
It was a moment in time unlike any other I'd ever had.
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph taught me there was still
humanity in this world, by the way they treated me
and the Aloha they shared.
Because they practiced it, they didn't need to preach it.
I am eternally indebted to them for that.
All the days of my life, I try to live up to the
great gift of friendship they taught me.
I would not be the fortunate and happy person
I am today if it were not for them.

This website is dedicated to their memory.
My hope is that all who come to this site
will be transformed so as to have the courage to
express the goodness within, and give thanks
to the Great Spirit from whom
all goodness originates.
I hope you enjoy my song and this video.