PELLIUS!WOW! THANKS!
Nice words from a Kamaina and sincerely appreciated.
But only a small part of what you said is factual.... and I knd'a gotta thank some of your North Shore neighbors for some of the favorable attributes you find in myself.
And you might know a few of them such as Reverend Saul (Kahuna, Alison Brundage (Hahuku nurse), Tommy Kono, Timmy Leong ... and a dozen or so other true Hawaiians at heart who always gave me a shit-load of grief when I saw the negative side of an individual's situation.
No intent to get overly mushy here but you and I were neighbors once, but now after 45 years of living in Paradise, I still find myself trying to think how one of the 'locals' would respond to a 'neighbor's' problem... and this positive stuff just comes out.
Yoi live there now, so I'm sure you see what I'm trying to explain every day ... or at least once a week for sure.
Mahalo, Pellius, mahalo!