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Our first real performance as “BEYOND the STARS” was on the Big Island in February of 2023. Since then, the island has been a touchstone for us, though only thanks to the grace of the many people who make it possible for us to be there. During our stay this past winter, Christina wrote a song that expresses the gratitude and affection we feel for the place and its people.

There’s a deep symbolic resonance between Hawaii and the band name we chose for entirely other reasons. I won’t go into it here, other than to make the general point that touring as a band is something like being couch surfers. Short of fame, the whole enterprise depends upon the grace of other people who aren’t far removed from strangers.

Every time we land on the island I am struck by a sudden sense of terror at the state of dependence we have just put ourselves in. My hope is that this song makes plain the thanks we feel to all those people who have made it possible for us to stay for a little while in paradise.