It’s been over a month since I’ve posted anything here and there’s lots to catch up on.

Been traveling…on a bit of a “walk-about” – both literally (5 to 10 miles a day) and figuratively (lots of reflection, introspection, and contemplation)…

My daughter, Kelli-Rose Hooser Simmons, gave birth a few days ago to a beautiful little baby girl – “Harper Camille”…who is the 4th Hooser grandchild/moʻopuna. Though the birthing journey was a bit of a challenge, both daughter and granddaughter are healthy and doing well.

While traveling, I’ve been doing my best to keep up with email, text, and telephone – but it has been challenging doing 100% of my work on my phone. My goal it to begin a new chapter…do a bit of a “reset” and begin again writing and working and supporting and yes fighting 😉

Remember “Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.”
― Frederick Douglass

During this past month, I’ve continued to write my weekly The Garden Island column and I also had a column published in the Honolulu StarAdvertiser.

In the coming days I will post those columns here as well. And…I will dig into the story and provide more details on my “walk-about” and those adventures of the recent 45 days or so.

Yours,

Gary Hooser