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    Rare Air Episode 35

    October 31, 2019 - By 

    With this installment, the Rare Air encapsulation of our July, 2018, trip to Hawaii’s Big Island is now complete. May the artifacts from those memorable days and nights dance around in our collective consciousness forever. It was an exotic continuation of our adventures started in 2012, when we first set out to explore America and its National Parks together with our kids. The “trip of a lifetime” for Beth and me, it played out beautifully, ending with us all coming home to Asheville… as Amelia and Riley readied for their high school senior and freshmen years, respectively.

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    Rare Air Episode 33

    June 27, 2019 - By 

    It’s my pleasure to share footage captured at the spot where the Ka’ahakini and Kolekole Streams flow together – at Kolekole Beach Park in Hilo, on Hawaii’s Big Island – from our trip in July, 2018. You can learn quite a bit more about this spectacular place by reading previous entries on this blog, which are just a click away, using the wayfinder below. To this growing record and enchanting video footage, I’ll add a few immortal words from William Shakespeare. “What is past is prologue.” Hawaii Big Island, July, 2018 . December 2018 desktop calendar: Slideshow featuring select photos…

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    Rare Air Episode 31

    February 24, 2019 - By 

    In 2018, a trip to The Big Island, Hawaii, introduced us and our kids to some spectacular scenery. Looking out across the island’s barren lava fields makes one rethink life itself, and its living flora and creatures automatically stretch our imaginations in exciting new directions, too. It all points the way to something more than the eye can see. In this and the next few episodes of Rare Air, the footage you’ll see presents the Kolekole Stream, home to the world famous ‘o’opu ‘alamo’o species of goby fish. Episode 31 is set at Akaka Falls, above which the ‘o’opu begins…

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    Rare Air Episode 30

    December 31, 2018 - By 

    Closing my eyes, I breathe deep, and the breeze honors me from every direction, even showering me with some of the leaves that have done their time aloft and now begin a transition back to dust. The present is so hard to latch onto completely... it seems so transitory and elusive. But after all, what we have is the now.