After weeks of dis­mal clouds and rain, I woke up this morn­ing with the ris­ing sun on my face. I felt quite bliss­ful and blessed like a true Easter mir­a­cle hap­pened. I under­stood per­fectly why peo­ple wor­ship the sun–the source of light and life.
Later in the morn­ing, the sun was cov­ered by clouds again, although not […]

We have a Uni­ver­sal­ist Radha-Krishnaism Dis­cus­sion Group on Facebook.com. We invite any­one inter­ested in dis­cussing Uni­ver­sal­ist Radha-Krishnaism among an intel­li­gent, sup­port­ive group of spir­i­tual friends to join us. Mem­ber­ship in Facebook.com is required. Aloha.

Since I did not make it to the MLK rally, I attended last night’s inau­gural ball at the Akeono The­ater in Pahoa. A num­ber of my friends were there along with good music, abun­dant food, and a cash bar. It was a great cel­e­bra­tion in true Puna style. It would have been even more enjoyable […]

My plans to go to the MLK rally today were dis­rupted when around one a.m. I was awak­ened by loud yelling and curs­ing and a cou­ple of shots. Then there was traf­fic going up and down my red cin­der dead end road in the jun­gle. Around 5:30, I was awak­ened by a police offi­cer who […]

I don’t fol­low the news very closely, so I didn’t know much about Barak Obama. Yes­ter­day, my wife and I watched the DVD, “Barak Obama: Who Is This Guy?” I didn’t much like him when I first saw him in 2004. I didn’t like the way he dealt with Jere­miah Wright. I voted for him […]

I haven’t posted here in over a month, so I fig­ure I should give an update. Things are going well and I hope all of you are hav­ing a good new year, although with the cur­rent crises we face I know it could be bet­ter for many. I’ve been absorbed in work­ing on my book. […]

I tried being an opti­mist and believ­ing things can change for the bet­ter. I actively worked to make this a bet­ter world for every­one by protest­ing, orga­niz­ing, preach­ing, teach­ing, net­work­ing, vot­ing, and other big or small ways. I worked within the main­stream and on the fringes. Now, after over forty years, I am very pessimistic […]

The cur­rent police chief pub­licly dis­missed the new ordi­nance passed by the peo­ple of Hawaii County mak­ing enforce­ment of cannabis laws the police’s low­est pri­or­ity. He said noth­ing would change and called those who sup­port mar­i­juana use “ter­ror­ist sup­port­ers.” Thir­teen other U.S. com­mu­ni­ties have sim­i­lar ordi­nances. This com­mu­nity has been sub­jected to a para­mil­i­tary marijuana […]

After the last two pres­i­den­tial elec­tions, I just about gave up hope of ever see­ing another free and fair elec­tion in this coun­try. Not only do we have a new pres­i­dent and hope for the future, but the peo­ple of Hawai’i, The Big Island, passed an ini­tia­tive mak­ing cannabis law enforcement’s low­est pri­or­ity.
Regard­ing Obama, the […]

Aloha. Last night I posted updates to the Uni­ver­salilst Radha-Krishnaism web­site such as a new tem­plate, new home page, new back­ground page, and a newly revised intro­duc­tion to Uni­ver­sal­ist Radha-Krishnaism based on process the­ol­ogy.
I con­tinue to work on my book, Uni­ver­sal­ist Radha-Krishnaism: A Spir­i­tu­al­ity of Lib­erty, Truth, and Love. I’ve also been land­scap­ing my residence, […]