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[EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>]

Today, I am listening to Hawaiian music.  Keahli'i Reichel.
I was meditating and just letting the music move me, when I suddenly 
realized that the words and the rhythm of the songs remind me very much 
of what I would call Native American music of both North America and 
South America.  It just made me rethink the Polynesian connection to the 
population and exploration of the Americas.  Maybe mankind originally 
came across the Bering land bridge, but I wonder if that asteroid/comet 
that exploded over North America (aka the Clovis Comet) 13000 years ago 
might have wiped out much of that population and then the continent was 
possibly repopulated from South and Central America by the descendants 
of the Polynesian culture.  I think I will re-read Kontiki, by Thor 
Heyerdahl.

B
--
"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will 
not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius 
will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the 
world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone 
are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve 
the problems of the human race"

~ Calvin Coolidge