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Chapter 8, page 4
FACING SUNRIZE, part II
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" I'm ready" he shouted grabbing his pack and the jugs, and was off down the path to the hilltop in an unexpected flash. "Hey! wait up" she cried loudly as she picked up her pack and the jugs and skipped off down the path trying to catch up with him.
Harmony felt a chill as she passed the pool, and quickened her steps on the narrow trail. "How're you doing back there?" Maji called to her. He had reached the end of the trail. Now he started up the hill. When she reached the bottom, he was half way up, and stopped to rest at the little guava tree that provided a nice shelter from the sun. Harmony was glad to feel the full warm light of the sun again as she climbed thru the tall grasses. The air was so fresh and she felt so alive. The change from the dark shadows of deep soul searching to the bright light of day was dramatic and felt good.
When she reached the guava tree, she dropped her pack and sat upon a large rock. Maji was shoving guavas into his mouth, and handed her a large ripe one. She devoured it with a prayer. "Oh it's such a gorgeous day!" she exclaimed as he handed her another guava. "Oh these are so good. Sweet and tart! I love guayavas!"
"I'm glad to see you come out of your melancholy," he said. "Me too," she replied. "I'm so glad you were able to get away for a few days. I get the creeps sometimes, especially at night when you're working and I'm alone down here."
"No one ever comes down here. Have you ever seen anyone down here?"
he insisted. "No...but it's what I don't see that scares me. I feel like there's
someone or something in the pool...watching us. Waiting for me to be alone and vulnerable," she whispered.
Maji laughed heartily. "Oh Harmony, that's nonsense. "Your paranoid
imagination is running wild that's all. "It is...wild. Something is in the water, hiding, waiting for me." "If you're trying to scare me Harmony," he chuckled "you're not! Oh! you're a real card"
"I'm not scaird when you're here. It's when I'm alone...at night. I hear it breathing, moaning..calling me." "Hahaha!" he laughs. "You're still in that dream world. Snap out of it! It's just your fantasy."
"But what does it mean," she replied. I can't forget it. I only have pieces of the story, but it's a story I've always known silently, in my heart. I remembered something Maji. Some thing inside me clicked open, and I got a glimpse. I had forgotten myself in this world."
"You should write a book about it someday," he said charmingly. "Anyway, I don't want you staying here alone anymore. You're going crazy on me Harmony" "No Maji, I'm breaking through finally. I'm finally facing my...Self. I know I seem mad, but I really need this time. Do you feel you have a Destiny Maji?"
"Could be," he said gathering his stuff up again. "It's not for me to speculate. I don't need to rip open my brain to find out who I am. I am what you see I am. Just a man. A man who gets a big kick out of you!?" "Humph!" she says looking seductive thru her eyelashes. "I don't speculate on subjects I don't have a solution for," he adds throwing his pack over his back and looking up the hill to the top.
"Honey that's a dumb cop out," she says as they start up. "You're just like me...you care about the air we breathe, the water we drink. You don't want your kids drafted into some stinkin' war. We vote for leaders" she persists, following him up the trail through the tall grasses, " that we think have courage to communicate and compromise, so we can create a happy world. Everybody happy. Why not?!"
"You talk like a fool sometimes Harmony." he says sighing heavily. "I may be a fool Maji, but I'm not content to wait...until everything just implodes and only cockroaches can inhabit this Earth?" "Yup!" he says not even turning back or stopping his ascent. "Well suppose I have solutions?" she responds adamantly. "Right" he adds wearily.
"I bet if I were a man, you'd be all eager to hear my solutions" she utters under her breath. But he hears her and responds. "Harmony, if you were a man, you wouldn't even be here camping with me. Let men worry about the big stuff, and you just be nice, huh. And chill out!"
"Well then do something!" she replies emphatically. "How can I chill out when every 60 seconds another species on our planet becomes extinct." "Yeah, you're right," he admits reluctantly. "That's progress. But look where we are NOW..." "Are we almost to the top" she asks adjusting her load. "Just a few more steps,” he says. “I can already smell the pineapples." He reaches the top and looks about. There are plenty of small sweet ripe pineapples in the fields there. He turns back now to make sure she's making it okay. But she is still going on about her stuff...."Maji, don't you think the Universe would allow us to space travel if we had the right attitude towards
each other here on earth?"
"No" he replies. "I don't think our attitude has anything to do with it." "Well if we were meant to know those things," she cuts in. "Well maybe we have to prove we're an honorable species first." "We try Harmony, but...it's a cruel world" he admits. "We keep trying. Survival is a rough game though."
“Well," she adds, " the Universe made us intelligent enough to grasp it, but do we have the heart to work together still. We have Liberty and Freedom, and what do we do with it?... become derelicts. The Universe is no fool. We're not going to trick the Great Spirit into revealing the Mysteries of Life, Evolution and Space Travel, until we've reached a certain level of integrity and compassion...and responsibility." They converse as they walk down the road towards the sea...through the pineapple fields.

Harmony & Maji Have Breakfast in the Pineapple Field
Finding a semi-shaded grassy area, they drop their packs again and search for pineapples. The fields had been harvested three times already on this planting, and the community was allowed to go and pick what was left. The pineapples were all sugar by then, not tart; small, but very juicy and golden ripe. When they'd gathered all the pineapples they could carry, they sat on the grass to eat them.
Maji had a knife and cut them into spears. The juice ran from their mouths and down their arms. They didn't care. They couldn't ever buy pineapple this good from the market. They savored every delicate flavor 'til satiated, they fell onto their backs on the grass in blissful ecstasy. By and by, Maji sat up and took a drink of water from his jug, then splashed his face and hands to get rid of the residue stickiness. Harmony did the same. Then, quite unexpectedly, Maji said, "So what's your solution...?" Surprised and taken off
guard a bit, Harmony eagerly replied, "Well, it can't be to just go on killing each other and the Earth. My solution is to change the name of our planet, to Planet Harmony!" Maji almost chokes on his pineapples. He's coughing and laughing at the same time. She pounds him on the back to help. When he catches his breath, he's still laughing.
"Oh Harmony," he cracks, "you're really from outer space! Where did you come up with that one?" "Oh" she quips unaffected by his sarcasm, "you think that's dumb. But listen, when They gave me the name Harmony, it wasn't because that's who I Am, but who I Am Becoming. It helps me stay on my toes and not become complacent. I'm learning to take responsibility for my thoughts and actions. Growing myself wisely...wiser than I would have otherwise without their help. If humans called Earth, Harmony, we'd have something to live up to."
"Who are They....?" he asks curiously. "Kiarna and Moisa...." she says, "my Guardians from long ago”. You have Guardians." she tells him. "I don't see them," he replies. "You see them in your dreams. You see them when you need to..." He looks at her puzzled. She's right, but he wont admit it. "You wont admit it" she smiles. "Are you afraid of the Truth about yourself Time has hidden?" "Why,” he responds. “I should be able to figure it out on my own, without extra-terrestrial beings telling how to be human!"
"That's good," she licks the pineapple off his cheek. "When we can communicate honestly Maji, we can improve the human condition for everyone...even the birds and insects." She shoves a piece of pineapple in his mouth so she can continue. "Sometimes we're forced to make choices in desperation...out of fear. I know. If we could just give up the game of ownership. We share the sky, the rain, the sun...the Spirit...why not the Earth. We don't have to be so selfish." "So call Earth, Harmony. That's your solution?" he says
skeptically. "Are you sure it's not Communism?! Don't you like free enterprise?"
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