If you pay attention to the surfers at the beach preparing to paddle out into the line up, you may notice most devotees to the sport are partial to stretching. As you watch them contorting into poses that gear them up for hours of surfing fun, some familiar poses may begin to appear – downward-facing [...]
What does the word “aloha” mean to you? Aloha “Hello”? Aloha “Goodbye”? What else? As a visitor, when you arrive in Hawaii, you are often greeted with “aloha,” a word that almost every person with access to reruns of Hawaii Five-O knows, at least loosely. But it’s so much more than a mere greeting, much like [...]
Some people might like bacon, but I, I love bacon. Sure, I’ve loved before, and I love now, but not the way I love bacon. My bacon-love is unconditional. My initial past loves had been failures— mainly because of my unforgiving expectations. But somehow, bacon’s found a way to my heart despite the hurtful things [...]
It’s not about how to achieve your dreams. It’s about how to lead your life. If you lead your life the right way, the karma will take care of itself. The dreams will come to you. - Randy Pausch, author of “The Last Lecture”
… Our biggest challenge is to look at our way of thinking, and see if there is a way to end the myth that there is somewhere to get to – that there is something else that needs to be done, that there is all this brokenness that needs to be fixed – our healing [...]
You are not happy because you are well. You are well because you are happy. You are not depressed because trouble has come to you, but trouble has come to you because you are depressed. You can change your thoughts and feelings, and then the outer things will come to correspond, and indeed there is [...]
And so I went surfing at a new surf break recently … new break and new people. Now, I’m already WAY comfortable at my home break, and the people there – so I find myself in a very unfamiliar scene. The break is faster to me, and the surroundings unknown. I am not yet familiar [...]
So I write, occasionally. Whatever comes to mind. Sometimes the thoughts just flow and end up becoming a story. Other times I take individual thoughts and string them together in an attempt to draw a line between two completely differently worlds and look like a genius or an intellectual. Either way, in the end, the [...]
The two little girls were sitting at this massive desk by the bathrooms at a furniture store (although the store is no longer there, the memories are still clear) – one at the huge leather chair behind the desk, and the other at one of the two chairs on the opposite side. Since I was [...]
