Hawai'i Adventure Beginnings

Hello, everyone! This is my first video of something I have done that is practical to this blog. It marks the start of my journey to Hawai'i just before I met up with a group of young people engaged in trying to protect our biosphere following the 2016 International Union for the Conservation of Nature's World Conservation Congress. There will be more to come as this promises to be quite an adventure!  This beginning video is going to be followed by the video about the ending of my trip so there will be more to come!

Out of Limbo: On that Hawai'i Vibe

            Well, I’ve been in Hawai’i about a week and we are over half-way through the Earth Works Art and Music Tour and I can’t believe that it has been that long.  We’ve been going so crazy and hopping all over Hawaii (well, Oahu actually) doing awesome things, meeting awesome people, connecting in unique and meaningful ways and participating in opportunities of a lifetime that all too many people can only dream of and yet should be experienced by all and its all come together so quickly and suddenly that I can barely keep up with it all.  Not even a month ago I didn’t know about the Earth Works Tour and shortly before that I didn’t even know about the events that would lead me to find the tour and the people it has brought me too.  I’m so glad I decided to do this and the connections I’ve made and experiences I’ve had I not only want to last my whole life, I think they are going to change my whole life. 

I’m having a blast with this group of people, the Young Protected Area Leaders and have never felt so accepted and part of group before and been able to be at one with myself.  It’s been so rapid the change in circumstance and experiences that I’m going to be processing this for the next few months.  I’m so glad I came here!  It has reignited my life and has provided so much inspiration and meaning in the form of people, places and activities that I can’t wait to share it!  It was exactly what I need to jump start my blog via all its rich material, experiences and the content I can generate from it regarding the culture I’ve experienced, the principles and ideas to add to my blog, the perspective from new ideas and foreign concepts I’ve experienced and what I’ve learned about myself rather than searching (aka slogging) for online material that is not my own experience that I can extract meaning from and force it to conform to my blog.  That has definitely been something that has been lacking in my blog and this tour has opened wide open once again.  That has been the real blessing of this tour, the opportunity it has provided to be at one with myself and what is going on around me and within me, my strengths, weaknesses, inconsistencies, nuances and contingencies and to feel the flow of energy and life within me and to tap into and release my creative energy.

For once I am not worrying about all these little distractions and can just focus on what is immediately in front of me and just be in the moment.   I pulled this together so quickly that I didn’t have time to fret about every little detail and had to leave many things up to chance out of pure time constraint necessity that I would’ve otherwise fretted over out of conditioning or been talked into fretting over and it has taught me much about myself.  And that brings me to how I got into coming to Hawai’i.

Just like I said above, not a month and a half ago, did I even know about any of these opportunities nor that these people existed let alone that I would be participating in them.  Just a week ago I was I working in a Teavana store with a group of people I greatly enjoyed being around but was not living for myself or doing what I wanted out of life and I was miserable with myself for it.  All that has changed since I came on this trip after learning about the International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s World Conservation Congress via Facebook, which took place in Hawai’i between September 1^st and 10^th, all of which I missed out on because of two Teavana.  And that’s how it started and what led to me being in Hawai’i right now, all of which will have to wait until next time because I am about to leave the location I am in which has Wi-fi.  Aloha!