Song for Hana and the Spirit of Leho'ula : A Love Story, A Spiritual Journey, A Sacred Hawaiian Place

by Kinder, George

• ISBN13: 9780979174322
• ISBN10: 0979174325
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-06-25
• Publisher: Serenity Point Pr

Summary

A Song for Hana & the Spirit of Leho'ula is a love story that unfolds across the majesty of the Hana coast, a sacred place threatened by development. In A Song for Hana the author, lost and distracted, becomes engaged with figures of ancient Hawaii, is transformed by the experience, and comes to the spirit of the place and of himself in the hands of Leho'ula, heroine of old Hawaii.A Song for Hana is filled with lyric prose and poetry accessible to all, with nearly one hundred stunning photographs and scans of a single mile of Maui's Hana coast, often called 'the last Hawaiian place.' You can read this book as a narrative, an adventure, or as a spiritual journey. Each two-page spread can be explored as a meditation, or you can simply enjoy the gorgeous images, relax into and savor the beauty of the Hana coast.

Author Biography

George Kinder is Nationally recognized as the father of the Life Planning movement, the Harvard-educated Kinder is the Founder of the Kinder Institute of Life Planning. He has been a practicing financial planner and tax advisor for nearly 30 years as well as a poet, spiritual teacher, artist and photographer. Over many years, he studied digital photography with numerous master photographers including John Paul Caponigro and Katrin Eisman. His environmental sculptures and ink washes have been shown at Harvard. An amazing speaker, Kinder has spoken at many national conferences and been interviewed and featured hundreds of times in dozens of publications and in broadcast media, including Time, Newsweek, Oprah Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, the New York Times, USA Today, PBS and National Public Radio. During his professional life, Mr. Kinder has spoken before scores of large audiences and has led hundreds of seminars as co-founder of an international training organization.Kinder's two previous books Seven Stages of Money Maturity and Lighting the Torch have 30 û 50,000 copies in print internationally, with translations in Japanese and German. He has been frequently named among the most influential people in the financial services industry. Among many honors, Kinder recently won the 2006 Heart of Financial Planning Distinguished Service Award from the 30,000-member Financial Planning Association.