Today, I ventured out alone to Kiholo bay. This is about 40 minutes south west of Hawi. Jim and Leah let me borrow their Suburu Legacy and I packed up my back pack with a towel, orange, apple, water, snorkel gear, camera, Jim’s underwater camera, and sunscreen and took off. The dirt road is…
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Hawaii Day 5 – Beach 69 – The biggest humuhumunukunukuapua’a you will ever see!
I got to celebrate my birthday at one of Jim’s favorite beaches here in Hawaii. Beach 69 is a beautiful beach that has ample shade and snorkeling right off the shore. I went out 3 times, once with Jim and twice by myself. After a while, rather than swimming past the fish, I stayed in…
Hawaii Day 4 – Pololu Valley and the city of Hawi
Today was nothing short of amazing. Jim and I started early and got to the start of Pololu Valley a little after 6am. This is quite simply the most breath taking scenery I’ve ever seen. I’ve taken MANY pics and have a link to them here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/markdeso/sets/72157630598473752/ We came down the trail on the north…
Hawaii Day 3 – The Farmer’s Market
I spent the early morning and afternoon with Jim and his family at the Farmer’s Market in Hawi. We started early, a little after 5am packing up the van and the trailer with various tables, heating and serving implements and food stuffs. Jim has a booth and he and Leah serve up wonderful Puerto Rican…
Hawaii Day 2
Today started very early. We were out the door by 6:00 for coffee and a bagel down at the local coffee house, I met a man who wrote children’s books and two other men who raised and trained carrier pigeons. We went near the birthplace of King Kameyameya. His mom decided to give birth…
Hawaii Day 1
My friend Jim Land moved to Hawaii 3 years ago and extended me an invite to come and visit him. The last few months have been a pretty turbulent time in my life, and I took him up on his offer. I flew out today on an Alaska Airlines flight and sat with Nick, a…
Starting my meditation practice
I’m finding that my meditation practice is as important as any work out. I wanted to share my thoughts about it and what some of what it’s doing for me. First, thank you to @leobabauta, a member of fitocracy.com for posting an excellent article on how to meditate: http://zenhabits.net/meditate/ I have made a gentle practice…
Interesting Variation on “Chop Wood Carry Water”
I recently looked through my posts and noticed that I had a draft post that i started writing in 2009, shortly after my friend Linda Eskin took her 6th kyu test (LInda is now 2nd kyu). It had to do with a conversation between her and myself. The context was right after her test and…
You can be attached for as long as you choose to be…
Earlier this month I had the pleasure of attending the last two hours of a seminar given by Dan Messisco Sensei. Dan Messisco has a very unique, flowing and relaxed style of Aikido and was wonderful to watch and be instructed by. There were a lot of things that he said at the seminar but…
The First Precept
On a Saturday morning Aikido class a few years ago, Sensei brought in the book by Gichin Funakoshi, “The Twenty Guiding Principles of Karate”. He read us the first precept in full: “karate-do begins and ends with rei” “Along with judo and kendo, karate-do is a representative Japanese martial art. And with it’s fellow martial…
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