Category: Life on Earth (Page 8 of 23)

My official blast off for the Big Island of Hawai’i is about 10 days off. I’ve left some of my stuff here until I can determine exactly what I’m going to need over there, but one load is on the way. It will end up costing me more money to do it in two moves, but I don’t want to take stuff I won’t want or need, and don’t want to end up having to put stuff in storage. My two vehicles are on the way, and one will be waiting for me when I get there – hopefully – so I don’t have to rent a car.

I have three places to look at as an initial rental once I get there, so I should have a good base of operations within a few days.

I’ll be coming back to Wyoming for a couple weeks in the spring to finish up some stuff around my house to get it ready for sale, and also to send whatever other stuff I decide I need or want with me over there. The rest will be sold and/or given to the Salvation Army.

It’s interesting as I sort of flow back and forth from excitement about the move to a feeling of “oh crap I’m really doing this!” I’ve certainly never felt like changing my mind though.

I realized I’ll be spending the holidays, and my birthday on the island. I think Christmas day may be spent at the beach – or at least part of it. Same for my birthday.

I’ve finished up the first phase of a website redesign for my good friend Frank DeMarco at his Hologram Books site and blog, (check him and his site out if you feel so inclined) and I’m getting into packing and moving mode big time now. I called the moving company and set a date, so now the move is even more real than it was. Still more to do on the Hologram Books site for Frank, but the rest will have to wait till I am at least partially settled on the Big Island of Hawaii.

I’m not sure how many of you have noticed, but there has been a palpable shift in energy. For several months after the first of the year, there was a positive shift and I was quite hopeful, but I started noticing a shift to the negative polarity, and by September, it was quite strong. I truly hope this swings back to the positive polarity. Many of my friends have noticed it as well.

It is important for each and every one of us to keep ourselves from being pulled into the negative energy that is not so prominent, and in anyway that we can. The more of people that can keep themselves in the positive polarity, the less effect the negative energy has. This certainly doesn’t mean that we have to check our opinions at the door, just that we need to keep from dipping down into the anxiety and anger that is floating around.

This one will be short, and I’ll try to keep at least a few short ones coming between now and the time I leave toward the end of November.

So where have I been? Here mostly getting the house ready for sale, sorting through all my junk treasures and trying to decide what moves with me to Hawaii and what does not. I’m being pretty vicious when it comes to deciding on what goes and what does not, and I want a pretty streamlined, simple life over there. Schedule now is that I’ll be on the island in November sometime.

I still haven’t bought property on the Big Island  so when I land I’ll effectively be homeless. That is an interesting feeling; exciting and a little scary at the same time. I’ll look for a place I can rent month to month while I am looking for a place to buy.

I’ve also been working on web stuff for others in and around the prep work for the move. I like doing that sort of stuff and it come easy to me for the most part, and I can do it from anywhere I have internet access. Maximum flexibility and I don’t have to wear a dress shirt and tie. I’m going to like that about Hawai’i. Formal attire means you wear sandals or flipflops instead of going barefoot.

The world and the economy of course keep coughing and wheezing, but if you believe the hype, there are green shoots!! Problem is it is entirely too early to tell if they are flowers or noxious weeds. At the risk of being a pessimist/doom and gloomer, I don’t think we have seen the bottom of this hole. I could of course be wrong. I’ve been wrong before and I’ll probably be wrong again.

I have more subjects for posts rattling around in my head (either that or it’s rocks – hard to tell the difference sometimes) and will be posting again soon. No, really I will. Seriously I will.

I got back to Wyoming on the 7th of this month, and it was a shock to be sure after three weeks in the arms of the Big Island of Hawai’i. It was an incredible journey and I’ll be sharing some of the special moments over the coming weeks.

The photo at right is the view from the lanai of the ohana unit (family unit) I was staying in during the last two weeks of my stay in Hawai’i. You will notice the overcast sky. Most of my second and third week on th island was overcast, or at the least partly overcast as it is “winter” there. Kiluea is also putting out a good bit of gases right now also, and that contributes to the grey skies. The place is on 1 acre of land, and I can’t say enough kind things about the owners. They were incredibly kind and generous with a true aloha spirit. There is just about everything you can think of growing on this property, and I was told that if I got hungry to just go out and graze. Many mornings when I got up, outside the door on the table on the lanai would be fresh picked mangos, oranges, tangerines and avacados. Also each morning when I woke up they would have put their copy of the “West Hawai’i Today” newspaper on the table outside my unit for me to read.