Thanks for your comment.

It’s hard to write for a market you don’t even know exists let alone is listening. I say follow your heart and make your ideas useful for others. It’s not easy but it’s certainly sustainable.

Watching the flagrant and blatant disregard for the Sunshine Law — by the Chair of the County Council, and his advice that we simply “move on” i.e. “get over it”, has only strengthened my resolve to say what I see and share my opinions regardless of whether I am criticized for doing so and regardless of the financial implications (less time available to bring in income). But hey, if we can’t demand these folks being held accountable for their apparent Sunshine Law violations, we are in sad shape as a citizenry.

When I started my blogsite I had an optimistic goal. Several times a week, I would do three blogs one local (Big Island or Hawaii), one national or international, and one environmental (from polar bears to climate change). Now how often have you read my blogs about saving polar bears (very rare), and only infrequently have I blogged about International and national events.

However earlier today I engaged in a bit of “re-inventing” myself -with a commitment to write more about the world beyond our Big Island beaches — but which world affects our Island and its future. [Just think as the polar bears habitat melts away and many of this fellow species drown, those same melted waters will erode and drown the beaches we all recognize are important to our State's environmental and economic health.]

Also I decided I need to be more direct (is that possible?) and cut through chatter that is designed to veil what is really being thought or felt. Just tell it like it is, so to speak — and speak to what is “really” being communicated, not simply the words that are uttered.

And I see above that Damon is mentioning again about finding a “job” . Now he might make a great stock broker, or accountant, or good humor man, but it sure would be nice if he instead developed his skills relating to the internet, blogging, and story telling into a lucrative job.

Regards, M Wille

When all seems dark, there is light. Sounds corny, but it is true.

Aloha,