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Puff the Magic Dragon and the Land of Honali? Honahli? Hanalei? Honahlee?
Who remembers the old Peter Paul and Mary song, Puff the Magic Dragon? I do! It was one of my favorite tunes when I was a little girl, not because of the story it tells because it is rather sad, but more so because it was easy to sing along with and conjured up images of friendliness in an otherwise large, scary creature. I mean, what child would not love to have a friendly dragon with whom to play?
If you need to refresh your memory of the song's lyrics, you can listen to Peter Paul and Mary sing the song on this YouTube recording.
The song rose to the surface in my memory this past weekend when I was deciding what to post for my Silent Sunday photograph-only blog. When we visited the Hawaiian island Kauai in 2013, we drove through a town called Hanalei. A very quaint mission church sat on the main road. We had to stop to photograph this church at my insistence.
Immediately, upon our exit from this quaint town, the lyrics of Puff the Magic Dragon sprang to mind and I started to sing the tune (much to my family's dismay because I am almost always off pitch). But, I enjoyed the memory nonetheless. The memory of the song was connected to the name of this town, Hanalei. Or, at least, so I thought!
