We all have had life-changing moments, and beginning tomorrow I will return to work for the rest of the year after 21 years of blissful retirement. I will still board the Island Princess on 19January2022 to begin my world cruise. Some of my sudden past transitions include: Leaving Hawaii for the very first time in 1958 to begin college at Stanford University. Starting my academic life in 1972 at the University of Hawaii, where my presence in my office during the summer of next year will mean I will have been on the Manoa Campus for 50 years. I was, however, away once from 1979 to 1982 working for Senator Spark Matsunaga in DC, where I drafted the original legislation for hydrogen and ocean thermal energy conversion. So what is it that I will do for the next six months? All that will unfold over the next few days in this blog. Today, I will focus on my final weekend of dabbling for the rest of the year, where I went out of my way to do what I have mostly been doing since I retired at
New SIMPLE SOLUTIONS for PLANET EARTH AND HUMANITY: This blog site derives from the original version of Planet Earth & Humanity, but will be more WE than ME. The coverage will remain similar, but perhaps these postings will seem to come from a parallel universe, or maybe even Purgatory. But truth and reality will prevail, with dashes of whimsy and levity to help make your day.