Life Power Now - for gay men

Aloha friends,
When my dear friend Cid had her birthday we agreed that, since our lives had changed so dramatically since moving to the Big Island, we would henceforth re-number our birthdays in Hawai'i. She had her second birthday in Hawa'ii in July; my first birthday in Hawai'i is today.

I've written about lava and rainbows, waterfalls and tropical skies, aloha and people as varied as the wild orchids. Time runs both fast and slow. You can take two days off and people remark that they haven't seen you in a while. Friends leave for two months and return, and it is as if you saw them just yesterday. It's all part of the flow...

It's the same as anywhere else (well, maybe not the lava, of course! <grin>). What makes the Big Island special for me is how the very air seems to vigorously knock about my assumptions and preconceptions, and how the intentions of people, mine own and others, manifest themselves in uncanny and surprising ways.

So it seems entirely sensible to number birthdays differently, because life IS different when you change your patterns and assumptions. And, amazed to be here, I find myself in the Pe'epe'e waterfall, one side braced, and one side embracing, my first birthday in Hawai'i.

If I were to make a birthday wish, it would be for everyone I know to find their own kind of waterfall. But being the unsentimental Virgo that I am <grin>, I'll simply wish you all much love and aloha...

Paul