Where I Live, There are Rainbows

My brother hates when I say this publicly but I really don't care for most Hawaiian music.  Most popular Hawaiian music these days consists of people singing country ballads with a ukelele.  It wasn't always like that.  One that I've always liked is the Hawaiian Lullabye.  It's short and simple, and something I used to sing to my son when he was little and we lived on the Mainland.  

What I didn't know is that it was written by a father who was singing to soothe his critically ill infant daughter.  Well, I guess it was also written to soothe himself.  There is nothing worse as a parent, to see your child struggle and not be able to actually fix it.  (In case you were wondering, his daughter did survive.  Although she has permanent brain damage, she works for Easter Seals helping ill children.)

There are so many things beyond our control in life.  But we can always choose to see things in a different light.  

Where I live there are rainbows
With life in laughter of morning
And starry nights
Where I live there are rainbows
With flowers full of color
And birds filled with song

I can smile when it's raining
Touch the warmth of the sun
I hear children laughing
In this place that I love

~from Hawaiian Lullabye, 

by Peter Moon and Hector Venegas

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