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New Abra set day makes me insanely happy.

Troubling side effect of taking a three day camping and hiking trip to Haleakala.

I cannot make myself want to go to work each morning.

Ahhhhhh.....I just got back. Left early Friday for Maui with my friends Keala and Bruce. We camped near Hosmer Grove -- I don't like going to the legally designated places, honestly, so we took a couple of turns and made camp in a spot I am 90% sure wasn't legal.

From there, we hiked out Saturday morning to 'Aina Hau Bowl and hooked up with...
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Have not yet spent time in a tent on the upslopes of Haleakala but I will this weekend.

I can't explain in words how good it is to just get away from everything and everyone for a few days and revel in the complete silence.

There are times, up on the mountain, when I can wake up in the middle of the night and actually...
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I can't sleep well lately.

This is usually a sign that I need to fly the Big Island or Maui and climb something high and sleep in a tent for a few nights.

Sometimes I wish there was more cash to be made in just living day to day doing what feels right at the time.

Sometimes I have a lot of energy for creative work, but it is never predictable and never ready on a schedule.

But I spend a lot of my time in a day to day schedule teaching. Get to school at a certain...
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I've actually seen pics of O'ahu from space on December 31st.

Honolulu side actually has enough fire crackers going off to have a haze cloud visible from space.

So obviously, spending New Year's Eve with my cousins in Kalihi Mauka was loud and smokey.

But fun -- I don't know how my cousin manages it but he gets more banned fireworks than anyone I know...
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Hau'oli Makahiki Hau!

Tonight's plan involves more red firecrackers than people from the mainland can possible imagine.

My friend located her mother. She was missing. Turned up in a hospital with a broken arm. When the wave hit, she was slammed into a palm tree, breaking the arm.

But she managed to somehow hold on with her other arm when the water rushed out again. She must have seen a dozen people get swept away.

She's going to survive, but I don't...
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I spent a good portion of yesterday with a friend of mine from Thailand whose mother works at the resorts that got washed away yesterday.

12 hours of calling and no answers.

Suddenly, a lot of things in the world don't seem to matter all that much.