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August 08, 2005
Change is Relative
Change is relative, and I'm not talking about the stuff rolling around between the couch cushions. For me, this weekend has been very much a visit to the past.
Ben Discoe, a good friend from Parker School, visited with his new wife, Debra. I hadn't seen him in ages and many memories of high school were discussed or triggered.
On Sunday, Sherrie Ann and I took a round-the-island trip with stop-overs at Hapuna beach and south Kona. Hapuna was quite nice with low surf (but choppy); body surfing and otherwise frolicking in the sand and waves further drew images, smells, sounds, and feelings from my childhood spent on that side of the island. South Kona deepened the experience as I met people whom I'd either not seen or have known for two-thirds or more of my life.
And yet, all of this nostalgia was sprinkled with the salt and pepper of change. A healthy dash of new housing development here, a speckle of new stop lights and stores and roads there. However, besides being more crowded and less open than before, the Big Island hasn't changed much over the past 30ish years. Of course, any of us who've spent time here could site specific points at every turn as to how it's different, but the overall feeling is much of how it was back then.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that not only has everything changed, nothing has.
Posted at August 8, 2005 03:42 PM | Life and Work
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