Braiding themes

Max is the time wave traveler, showing up in story and places; appearing as bridge and conduit.  In one story he arrives to reconnect with his mate and meets Lokahi a girl born outside of kapu.  Another time and place this same "Max" appears first in dreams of a woman who is lost to her gifts in the time she lives in the body.  Daring to loosen her grip on definitions, this time Max will take EL back into time to connect 1700 England and Scotland with Onomea on the Hamakua Coast.  The third theme and story that includes Max weaves Queen Liliuokalani into conversations with three other young women.  This story is the plot for a book She Would written by characters in a story I am writing called Splinters.

The motivation for this intricate braiding is bred from the marrow.  Genetic inspiration, and perhaps Liliuokalani's words

THE Hawaiian people have been from time immemorial lovers of poetry and music, and have been apt in improvising historic poems, songs of love, and chants of worship, so that praises of the living or wails over the dead were with them but the natural statement of their feelings. My ancestors were peculiarly gifted in this respect, and yet it is remarkable that there are few if any written compositions of the music of Hawaii excepting those published by me...To compose was as natural to me as to breathe; and this gift of nature, never having been suffered to fall into disuse, remains a source of the greatest consolation to this day.