It´s been a great time so far.

Keith

From a western standpoint, rain is almost considered a bad omen or at least undesirable. Hawaiians actually count it as a blessing. I’m starting to see it that way. Many times the things that I was conditioned to loathe are the things that end up being the biggest blessings.

Dhaka, Bangladesh ©Keith Erickson

I started to upload older stuff onto flickr. I’m not sure how this site will turn out yet, but it’ll probably end up being migrated over and made my actual website. Wordpress is pretty cool in that you can do almost anything with it. So here’s the flickr address: my flickr site
Hope everyone is doing great

Keith

I spent the weekend sucking down energy drinks like a Mario Brother eats mushrooms. You can never, never have too many of them. Nope. Not possible. Now I know what your thinking. Aren’t those things bad for you. No, of course not.

(I’ll pause while you shake your head) Done? ….

OK, ok, so maybe they’re not the greatest. After all, it does seem a bit odd that as a society we’ve sort of come to the point where we shy away from stuff like water, milk, or fruit juice. You know… natural stuff. Furthermore, from a sheer marketing perspective it seems odd that we’d rather pound things with titles like “monster”. I mean could you imagine seeing that old Sunny D commercial now days? Let’s see we got milk, purple stuff and….. MONSTER energy drink.  (children chime in:) YEAH Ma GIMME A MONSTER! Am I totally off in saying that doesn’t sound right?

Anyways that’s all for the randomness. Take is easy all.

Ok now back to the senior project…

These writings have had what Paul Krietman would call mission creep. Originally, they started as a way to keep track of me when I was in Bangladesh, as well as a place for inside jokes and a venue to whine about topics such as lost love. I’m not sure what this is now. I’ve been going back through them to figure out the point where they started loosing that direction I long for.

So, realization of a problem is the first step to fixing it. What then does the immediate future hold? Well for starters a return to California. Otherwise what?…A construction worker migrating from island to island for decades like this guy?

Really, a nice enough guy and not the worst life ever… but it’s not for me.

Having said that, I’m not quoting any dates on coming back from Hawaii anymore. IT WILL PROBABLY BE SOONER THEN I TOLD EVERYONE. I realized that I’m still comited to my goal of working with NGO’s or non profit organizations that are trying to make sure peoples basic needs and secondly socioeconomic status is lifted. I’ve been hibrernating in Hawaii, I’ve realized. It’s time (past due) to continue working toward those goals.

What have I been doing so far in California? So far I’ve been working in a room where my grandfather and I used to watch baseball games while I counted my baseball cards, saw two of my closest friends get married, put a few small things to rest, and said what I hope is a short goodbye to some of the most important people in my life. This trip to California has been a little more confusing then relaxing. But I’m trying to be positive about it. Life has a funny way of coming back around to work itself out and show you where your going wrong. It feels a bit overdue to be honest. Rach used to say that I might need to scrub the floors first in order to get where I want. I’m still looking at this as that point in life, but it’s quickly growing old. The trip has put several things in perspective though. For instance, a note on the last few months: there’s a thin line between going a direction you don’t necessarily want to and masochism, one which I feel I’ve crossed several times.

One of the things I noticed as I looked back through these recent writings and last few months is a lack of wide-eyed awe at the world and people that was so prevalent before. It’s slowly coming back.

I hope all of you out there are well. Best of luck to all of you in transition. I hope our paths cross again soon.

I move around too much for my wallet, but too little for my well being.

The winds of change are blowing.

This is what I’m up to: Sixth Day Media

My phone numbere is back to the good old 805 thing..

That is all.

Keith

I haven’t been doing the more sterotypical Hawaii things.. just working. As such, I’ve nothing tremendous to report. When I do you, faithful blog reader will be the first to know.

Here’s some snap shots from my side of the island…