papa has another rollin’ stone, kidney stone! last year i got my very first kidney stone and they found i have two. the right side one came out last year and now the left is ready to rock and roll. speaking about kidney stones, how you get them, get rid of then and prevent. with age comes these simple painful joys!!!

a little about my new life and how it has been going. i explain my recent absence, silence, and embarking on this new life adventure mashed with equal parts fear, excitement and a whole hell of a lot more. nervous? yes. scared? kind of. excited? you betcha! this season of life for me is here, and will only move when i work, which is necessary. more to come for sure as time goes on, but hope this helps someone out there dealing with chronic illness and give you another perspective. heed the title cover friends and aloha always!

...sometimes is the best thing you can possess in life. it prevents ignorance and the passivity that can come from our day-to-day situations, and helps to give us needed confidence through restraint and self-reflection. it teaches us how to enhance our awareness through our hearing and sight, and bring us closer to our true meanings of self. enjoy this podcast, on how a necessary need for silence at this point in my life, has allowed me to set my necessary boundaries, to better help me understand how to comprehend that which is now in front of me - to speak without speaking.