Mahalo

A humble thank you to the many, many things that have made this month wonderful: the ocean, sand, sea turtles, 80 degree days, tropical night showers, the sun, the full moon--twice--the 150 feet we walk every day to the most beautiful beach, the pineapples, shave ice, gin and toncis after an afternoon spent playing in the waves, my sister, my parents, the kids, jason, the baristas at Kalapawai Market, the windsurfers who didn't plow us down or run over my dad during his twice daily swim, the lovely cottages on the Big Island, the lava, the Honolulu Advertiser with its hard-hitting stories about the surf, the North shore, aloe vera after-sun lotion, sushi, FM 105.1, ("your Hawaaiian music station") and so on and so on..Mahalo.

Tomorrow, the midwest.