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Kokua for Kauai | Being Here Now is Where I Belong!

I am realizing that calculated risk is in imperative action if I am going to fulfill a life of purpose and promise. This concept has always been present in my mind, though sometimes, similar to a thick canopy of tree tops blocking the sun’s rays, it’s enormity and necessity is veiled from my mind’s view. Just the concept, “calculated” & “risk” resonates to my core. I need a certain measure of extreme in my life, but I need to know I have planned properly for it, enough to which I am not putting myself in harm’s way. Planning isn’t always a triptych path of the roads to come, but more a trial and discovery through life that allows for, at the moment a risky decision is made, the ability for the mind to spin it’s rolodex of events, and says: “Yes, you got this!” of at least, “Hey, I am pretty sure you won’t muck it up!” Where do I belong? Where do any of us truly belong, swimming amongst other bodies on this small island, swimming in a larger body of water in the pac...

Aloha Friday Motivation | Irish Pub Edition | #32

  Sláinte and Happy Aloha Friday! ( Blog Link ) St Paddy’s day is a lot of things to a lot of people, the least of which is a celebration of the actual St. Patrick. In fact, if you looked from afar at the debauchery and hooliganism you would swear you were witnessing a celebration of Bacchus, god of wine and giver of ecstasy (of course substitute the wine for Guinness and Irish Whiskey)! In 2008, for an entire year, 52 consecutive Sundays, I spent my late morning into afternoons at an Irish Pub, Anna Liffey’s (The Liff), in New Haven CT taking in (too many) pints of Smithwicks and a troop of amateur Musicians who would gather from 10AM until whenever each Sunday to play an Irish Jam session, not that dissimilar to this video . Some Sunday’s saw 20 musicians, some saw two, but there was always music emanating from the traditional irish pub (conveniently located sub-street level) on Sundays. Every Sunday was St. Paddy’s day that year. Now, every St Paddy’s Day brings me back ...