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GOD’S COUNTRY

Wouldn’t you know it, we are now sitting in the middle of America the Beautiful, in lawn chairs on the deck behind our rented space, interpreting fluffy white cloud shapes in a deep blue sky. Seriously, you can see God smiling down from heaven in silky rays of light upon the purple mountains. And I […]

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HOMELAND INSECURITY

I don’t mind admitting that our recent move to Anytown, USA has me spooked. I woke to solid proof the other morning when I realized I had just dreamed about corpses two nights in a row. In both dreams, I was circumstantially forced to look at the unburied dead. Although I did everything I could […]

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HAOLE ALOHA

It is Sunday. I go for a long walk. Sunday is a good day to walk because the traffic isn’t as bad. It is a bright, blustery, wet, winter’s day on Maui. I head off down Makawao Avenue, holding onto the bill of my ballcap to keep it from blowing off. For the first half […]

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THE AMERICAN DREAM – A PARABLE

I would like to share this fable with you. It is one of those stories that made the email rounds a few years ago. The American Dream…… An American businessman was at the pier of a small coastal Mexican village when a small boat with just one fisherman docked. Inside the small boat were several […]