I’ve been getting patient, but persistent messages that I need to go up and spend some time at Mauna Kea. Something to the effect, “you need to come up and see me.” To the Hawaiian’s, all the peaks on Hawai’i island are sacred, but Mauna Kea is the most sacred. I feel quite honored that [...]

I had planned on getting a “meatier” post up this week, but I’ve been busy with other stuff. I hope to have something more substantive up in a few days. How many of you have ever seen coffee “on the hoof?” This image is from right outside the house I’m living in on a sustainable, [...]

A while ago, we took a trip over to the Waipio Valley on the east shore of Kohala. The Waipio Valley is a very sacred place to the Hawaiian people and was the home to many Hawaiian rulers. When you visit the valley, you need to first ask permission to enter and if you get [...]

Did you ever have one of those days when you didn’t know why, nor did you really think to ask why, and you found yourself getting ready to do something or go somewhere that you had not consciously planned on? That happened to me a couple days ago. I got up and did my web [...]

The other night I took a trip down to the Keauhou Beach Resort, to the Verandah Lounge, which overlooks a lagoon on the Pacific to watch the sunset and have a beer. As I was sitting there enjoying a Red Ale from Kona Brewing Company, bathed in the gentle salty ocean breeze and the warm [...]

Well, it has been quite a while since I posted here, but for about a year after moving to the island of Hawai’i, the island sets the agenda for you – if you let it. If you don’t let it, the first year can be rough. There have been some ups and downs, but for [...]

I had wanted to get an update posted earlier, but things have been quite busy. Had several things to get done within a certain time frame and wanted them out of the way. One thing left to do tomorrow and then I hope things will settle down. We are looking for another place since this [...]

Sidney is in Kona and I’m on my way to see the little rascal. They say he is doing fine and the woman I talked with called him a sweetheart – which he is.