Changes and Samenesses

I don't understand grammar all that well. I've had people tell me I don't understand spelling all that well either.

People have differences. People have agreements.

Individuals find things that change in there lives. Some of these things bring comfort or even elation. Other of these things bring sadness or even acute distress. Sometimes these things are the same things.

We also find things in our lives which remain the same. Likewise it is with change. Sometimes having things not change is good or even very good. Also sometimes having things remain as they are can motivate stress and dispair.



I pushed my wheelchair up from the Pac ific Ocean to ten miles below the highest point on the island of Maui. The distance traveled was about thirty miles. The height gain was about 7500 feet. The time elapsed was around 21 hours.

Three good people traveled with me. These people did there utmost to help me get as close as I could to the top of the hill. They took turns walking with me. Maybe the company during the push was the most important part. No, definitely for me the best part of this push was the intermixed company of the three wonderful individuals who took turns sharing there presence with me as I did my best to work toward the summit of Haleakala.

Last summer I learned that sometimes it is useful, well practical, gosh it can be life threateningly important- to realise that the summit, in a certain vital sense, isn't so much an absolute spatial thing but simply the place from where you begin your return.

Is the return a return toward comfort and safety? How are change and sameness linked to comfort and elation and distress and sadness and even safety and fear?

Thank you to those who read this blog. Thank you to those who comment about this blog. Thank you so much to those who help me live my life and work my way through it all with some grace, a few smiles, and an occasional blog entry.

Posting

Okay, the airplane ticket problems were worked out by the kind woman at the check-in desk at the Boston airport. Al that time on hold with the CheapTickets people and no headway, but ultimately, mercifully, at the last chance it all worked out fine.

So here I am in Makawao, in Maui, planning to start up Haleakala in about six hours. I've got strong support from two people who are very important to me.

The blog has had strong support from another person who is important to me.

I appologise for my absence this past five weeks or so. Things have been somewhat overwhelming in a few different ways. I have been distracted, mentally, emotionaly, and physically also.

The ski season finished iup well. The last run down the lift line at Wildcat was worth all the hard work and experimentaion of the preceeding months.

Now I am trying out surfing experimentation. I have tumbled off the board and climbed back on. I have scrapes on the sides of my knees and a bit on my face from the surface of the surf board. I have a bit of sunburn, just a bit.

Tomorrow though, well in just about six hours, I think I'm gonna get in the water off Hoburn Street and then start up toward a point 10,000 feet higher. I'll mostly be traveling on Haleakala Highway. We'll see how it goes.


----posted by Seanonymous