Several days ago, I went in search of Hawaii - it's past I mean - modern Hawaii wears its history on short Aloha shirt sleeves - I traveled to one of the few active archeological sites on Oahu with a restored heiau (temple). 

Temple always meant to me something imposing in which everyone stood in awe.  The heiau at Waimea Bay, site of a once thriving Hawaiian settlement, was awesome but not in an imposing way, rather in a supposing way.  The stone tiers upon which the temple area is built wer...
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