I’m Needing Another Staycation… No Place Like Home

Posted on July 1, 2010 by Damon

Well I was going to go skydiving tomorrow in Kona, but that has pretty much “Flown out the window” and “Gotten Grounded”.  So now I’ll be still heading over to the Royal Kona Resort tomorrow evening and checking some things out on the way. The nicest thing about getting over to the Kona side of [...]

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Maui Resident Appointed Next US Poet Laureate

Posted on July 1, 2010 by Damon

W.S. Merwin, who was appointed the next US poet laureate today, couldn’t get any less Washington. The 82-year-old Zen Buddhist lives in a rainforest in Hawaii, where he spends much of his time nurturing endangered plants. Merwin’s poems, which he still composes in longhand, are spare, unpunctuated, and ethereal. Often limning the immutability of nature [...]

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