Look into My Eyes and Tell Me What You are Seeing — Look deeper still and ask yourself what you are feeling. Before a word is spoken take a long deep breath, or two, pause and look into where your soul resides. Maybe it need not be expressed with words. Perhaps your thoughts are best left untranslated into a language of common…

Stay Out of the Kitchen — The Heat is On The hot part of our summer has finally arrived on the Big Island. Solar cooking keeps our little home even cooler not to mention the chef! So, it’s time to snap together our lightweight Haines 2.0 Solar Cooker. It’s two summers old and worth its weight in gold. It’s a Solar Crock Pot But ten…

And Buried Treasure on a Maui Beach — Stormy Surf I’m barefooting on a beautiful cinnamon sand beach on the southern tip of Maui. Monster curls are crashing on the shore. I barely dodge an incoming wave as it chases me up the slope of the beach. As I run, I spot something glinting beneath the sand. Buried treasure forever…

A Love Story about Four Minutes to Serenity — Receiving a Loving Gift Standing on the stump of a freshly harvested coconut palm, I leaned into forty knots of fierce afternoon Trade Winds. The wind was ricocheting off the West Maui Mountains and funneling down the southern shores of Maui. I had no premonition of what was to follow. My entire being was…

Pandemic, Chump Change, China, Russia, Ukraine, Inflation, & Monkey Pox! Living Crisis to Crisis As if we haven’t experienced enough in the last three years there’s more to come! Guaranteed! And the media — social, print, radio, blogs, podcasts, streaming channels, television, and cable are headlining it with their flavored polarized views for profit! …