Collecting Coconuts

“Great and terrible can mean the very same things. Yet, I now understand both.”
–Keiba

Some people pray for rain. Others pray for it to go away.

Anne Lu’akanitz, Hawaiian and Jewish by blood, finds herself amidst both prayers in the Hurricane.

Will she find her family? Her friends? The science and plants she dearly loves amidst the island? Some people seek research. Some breathe it.

Haki Lindsgren, Swedish and American by blood, seeks both in the high tops of Aconcagua Mountain ranges amidst a snowstorm. He has a research partner, but where is she?

Will he find her? Will he finish his research? Or die trying?

How do they both fare?

“The trees quit dripping long enough to hear the silence.”
– Anne.

Stacy Graven is a graduate of Weber State University with a B.A. in English Creative Writing. It all began with the love of books as a three-year-old ‘book-shopping’ in the family room, as her mother recalls. You will often find her with the dear people that she calls inspirations including colleagues, friends, neighbors, and the family God has granted her. Aside from writing, you will find her teaching piano, adventuring to her heart’s content in nature, serving in a church community, and dancing. Two of her other works are Ivory and Ink and Perhaps, Miss Hazel Ansbro.