The Bowl of Light by Hank Wesselman is a beautiful book detailing the friendship between Hank Wesselman, the scientist, and Hale Makua, the Hawaiian Elder. Makua is the carrier of great ancestral wisdom, and the conversations these two men shared over the course of their 8 year friendship are profound and inspiring.

It was a great loss to the Hawaiian community and to the world when this wise elder died in  car crash in 2004. It is wonderful to have at least some of his knowledge preserved here in The Bowl of Light.