tomorrow is a new day.

Tomorrow I leave from Maui to fly to Oakland. In the bay area I will start a life that is drastically different than any form of life I have lived before.

I already feel renewed. I already feel reinvigorated. In fact, it's hard for me to imagine a better place to go to; cosmic harmony seems to be filling this chubby puppy pretty well!

Of course I am aware that there are other places I would almost equally feel so invigorated for: New York for example. What good people reside there! (You know who you are, please). I must visit there.

But things are feeling right right now. Let's keep them that way. The stars are assuming their special formations in the sky, nature's leaves are rustling in the wind a perfect pace. This is when you know the direction is right.

A strange outburst of expression, I know. But let it be.

Love, Teodoro

I saw Talladega Nights today. I appreciated its satire of American culture. Good job Will and Ali G.

There's about a day 'til I am in SF. It's already feeling good. I even signed up for the carshare program so I will be driving around in a Prius or a Mini or a Toyota Tacoma whenever I want to!

I think that once I am there and settled that I can contribute more to this old website. However, my life may not again offer me all of the long moments of free time that this kind of writing and reflection requires. It's a good and bad thing of course. We'll see what happens; maybe I can make it work.

Tonight I was out on the other side of the island with a bunch of old high school friends. It was good times... We toasted to our futures, an important thing to do, from time to time.

Drifting Dream Memories

Life has changed so much.

I no longer live in a small house with tatami mats. I no longer go in the morning to hang out with pre-school kids and make them jump up and down. I no longer drive through kilometers of countryside as the sun goes down.

For a few more days I am on this island in the middle of the pacific. Then I will be thrusted over to the other side of the pacific, in an entirely different reality yet again.

It is hard not to think back with pangs of nostalgia, from time to time. Yet, it is not that simple; it is not as if I want to be there still....

It's changed so completely, so quickly. Like waking up from a dream. Everything vanishes and yet there are tidbits of what had happened while you were sleeping that flash in your head. Disconnected bits of faded colors. And yet they were real.

Life: Weirder and Weirder.

Here is the article. How? I ask...

The Beast in the Ocean

Yesterday I was at Pa'ia Bay Beach with my old friend Dannee and right as we were getting out of the water a dude walks up to us and asks us if we saw the strange shark-like fins jutting out of the water. We looked back at the light blue-green, filled with calcium and salt, and sure enough we saw a sharp-edged dorsal fin peak over the surface. The body, traveling slowly, was dark and large. Soon enough the rest of the beach's inhabitants crowded over to take a peak but the beast had already left. I really wanted to walk up to it to confirm its species (it was only about twenty feet away from me), but I didn't want to go down in history for being the man who got bit because he was stupid enough to walk up to a tiger shark.

My brothers have left. Luckily, my friends have picked up some of the slack created by their departure. Also luckily I have now received my new cell phone and can thus call all of my friends again. Joy to the world. They may be far away, but now they are only a phone call away.

My Brothas

My brothers and I had something that happens rarely these years: more than a week together. It was a really nice reunion and I am sad that they left tonight. Luckily, I will soon join them in the wonderful state of California.

So now I have a little over a week left with my parents on this beautiful island. It will be a good time.

And that's all for tonight folks. More will appear as the spirit moves itself. Patience, the mother of all virtues.