The surf rolled in and back out leaving a precious gift in its frothy waves. Baby Elias fished an antique rum bottle from the water. There was a letter inside. "Help me", it said, "I'm all alone." Everyone feels alone, it's part of the human condition. But the truth is we're all connected. Our sorrows connect us. Our dreams connect us. We are all the same. But we can all use a little advice from time to time...

Tuesday, September 14, 2010


 "What wonderful thing are we going to do today?"
 --Every morning we greet Baby Elias with this question.


When we visited the  Pu'u Honua O'Honaunau, "The City of Refuge," we came upon a native dressed in a loin cloth carving a Tiki. He stopped his carving and told the assemblage about being a little boy sitting with other boys at an elder's knee. "What lies beyond the horizon?" asked the elder waving his hand out over the vast expanse of ocean.


The boys were embarrassed. They didn't know. The island was their entire world.

"Life," said the elder. "Life lies beyond the horizon."

We adopted that motto. We are endeavoring to explore beyond what we expect to see from our vantage point.

The horizon of the mind is the same. We think we know what is, but from a higher larger perspective we see more.

Said Zig Zigler, "Go as far as you can go and when you get there you can always see farther."

Together we will see farther...