Around 2006, I started to get the urge to visit Hawai’i. It came on sort of slowly, but there were all sorts of things pointing me toward the Islands. I would turn on the TV and there would be a program on about Hawai’i, or about the volcanoes here. Even on this blog, I started to get people contacting me via my contact page and signing their emails, Aloha. Friends started sending me links to things in Hawai’i out of the blue and not knowing why they were sending them. I of course took note of all these “coincidences” and started to take the time to look inside as to what this all meant. Fast forward a couple years, and I knew that I would be moving to Hawaii. I’d never visited, but I just knew. Hawai’i was where I was supposed to be.

In February of 2009, I boarded a plane and headed off to three weeks on the Big Island. By the time I had taken ten or so steps on the tarmac (no jetways here, and the entire airport is open air), I knew this was home. I spent three magical weeks exploring the island, and felt the warm embrace of the spirits here.

In December of 2009, I packed up my kitty, Sidney, and we boarded a plane for our new home on the Big Island of Hawai’i.

For “about: the early years” see my About 1.0 page.

Aloha nui loa,
Richard

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