One of my favorite running routes on Oahu is up Diamond Head road to the lookout. Over four years ago I stood there after a run, looking out at the ocean and decided I wanted to move to Hawaii. And I noticed a plastic bag in a tree. A black, plastic bag, knotted and wrapped around the limb of an old tree, weathered and torn, one frayed strand of it swaying in the wind. It…
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When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea and the sea drowns them out with its great wide sounds, cleanses me with its noise, and imposes a rhythm upon everything in me that is bewildered and confused. ~Rainer Maria Rilke
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Brian and I island hopped to Maui this past weekend to celebrate our one year anniversary. It was a relaxing and fun weekend and neither of us wanted to leave. There is a tranquility and spaciousness about Maui that I don’t think exists on Oahu, but I guess that is what is neat about the islands; they are all beautiful in such different ways. I always felt pulled to Hawaii, and aside from the obvious,…
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I have two friends in town from Vancouver for ten days, which means I get to pretend like I’m on vacation too. (That never gets old.) I took them on a tour of the southeast side of the island yesterday, from Diamondhead to Waimanalo. As we played on the beach, one of my friends commented that I’m like a happy little kid. I absolutely love having my good friends here with me, so I guess it makes me, well,…
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4.26.2011 (Written several weeks ago on my flight back to Hawaii.) Cruising altitude. We have been chasing the sun West across the Pacific and I just witnessed the kind of glorious sunset that brings tears to your eyes. I feel as though it was meant for me alone, because everyone on the plane has their window shades closed. I am reflective and thankful in this moment, even for the illness that plagued my body for…
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