Weather:\u00a0\u00a0 Another Sunny Day in Paradise!\u00a0\u00a0 8:13 AM\u00a0Maui Time
\nAloha , all you wind-whipped, wind-chilled center of the continent land lubbers!<\/p>\n
As I write this, the Pacific washes up on a white sand beach, birds gibber in the palms off my 8th floor lanai and the temperature heads toward 80 degrees.<\/p>\n
Thanks to my recent work in Taoism, I’m trying to reframe my expectations of air travel.\u00a0 I now consider it a sort of gauntlet or trial by combat necessary before one wins the hands of the fair lady, the Islands.\u00a0 All in all the trip was not bad, save for an hour and a half spent wandering among slot machines, blinking lights, hurried travelers trying to find the ATA counter, which was, as in O’Hare of old, the maximal distance from I came in and resulted in an equally long trek back to get the gates.\u00a0 Sigh.<\/p>\n
Got to Maui at 7:35 PM Maui time, 11:45 PM CST.\u00a0 There is nothing else on the planet like the smell of Hawaii.\u00a0 It caresses\u00a0 you the minute you arrive and lets you know you’ve come back at last.<\/p>\n
Had a strange experience about a half hour out from Maui.\u00a0 I begin to feel I was coming home.\u00a0 You know this feeling, the warm secure sense that a place of safety and comfort awaits you, a place where are you are welcome and where you belong.\u00a0 Don’t know what to make of it, except that I liked it.<\/p>\n
In order to connect to you, dear reader, I spent 20 minutes with the Bangalore cyber connection goosing the\u00a0net to the room so I could finally get on the web.\u00a0 Now, I’m going to breakfast.\u00a0 Catch you later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Weather:\u00a0\u00a0 Another Sunny Day in Paradise!\u00a0\u00a0 8:13 AM\u00a0Maui Time Aloha , all you wind-whipped, wind-chilled center of the continent land lubbers! As I write this, the Pacific washes up on a white sand beach, birds gibber in the palms off my 8th floor lanai and the temperature heads toward 80 degrees. Thanks to my recent … Continue reading Just Another Day In Paradise<\/span>