Sunday, April 26, 2020. random Sunday musings

The air is still chill, trades are off and on up here.  Cloudy more than not.  But when the sun comes out, warmth is nearly instantaneous.  You know, these things are a bit more challenging than at the beginning nearly two years ago.  Then, Iʻd wake, check websites to try figure out what was going on with Pelehonuamea, then sit and type for 3+ hours.  It was fairly regimented.  Now, as Iʻve said, thereʻs no sense of urgency to get The News out, so I have the luxury of more leisurely poking around, playing with topics, and trying to come up with at least semi-bright ideas.  The humbug is I get distracted.  Easily.  Holo there, then here, then farther over there...  Itʻs all good, though.  Keeps the brain working...

A few things:

The County of Hawaiʻi sent out a...press release, paha, clarifying news of an expected infusion of FEMA funds to help with repairs to infrastructure (mainly roads), post-Pele-visiting Keahialaka in 2018.

Not sure if the above will be legible on your device.  If not, please visit:

Clarification on FEMA Funding 042620

Iʻll editorialize on this incoming days, as I have in the past.

And while thatʻs percolating, I suggest time-occupying reading, education, and self-edification, via two favorite sites:

Jan TenBruggencateʻs excellent Raising Islands Blog

Raising Islands

and 

The good folks at Honolulu Civil Beat 

Honolulu Civil Beat

Please support them how and when you can.  Both sites are extraordinarily honest and informative.

And please start considering, in a mind-wide-open sorta way, what "Re-Opening" means.  Or should mean.  At this point in our collective journey, I simply canʻt imagine going back to how things were.  And thatʻs just two or three months ago...  I seriously doubt that itʻll be "Presto-Change-o"  Ta daaaahhhh.  All good.  As far as I can tell, our economies are in ruins.  For many, personal finances have taken catastrophic hits, and The Government(s), all of them, seem ill-equipped to respond substantively to our dilemmas and predicaments.

How will The Future work and function?  Tourists coming back and filling our hotels and beaches to over-capacity?  Our catering to their every whim?  The Rat Race re-established?  Debt-ridden consumers consuming on the advice of social media "Influencers"?  Sure hope not.

We have opportunities to reimagine and create our society as a better place for all.  I pray that we donʻt blow it.  

in downtown Hilo, by Robyn Chance... I smile every time I see this...

Till next time, then...

As always, with aloha,

BobbyC
maniniowali@gmail.com