13 Jun “A Lei Around the World”
Growing up I liked to think about how my home-town region had been called "a sea of grass." Riding out to our farm where there was still native grass stretching to the horizon, I imagined the Spaniards' and American Expedition leaders' apprehension as they tried to lay track across the llano estacado. But years later, the weight of that epithet really came home to me as I gazed at the ocean surrounding O'ahu near University of Hawai'i where I was teaching. When the local swimmers took off unfazed into...