Aloha and Mahalo

Finding Perspective In a Far Away Place

Last Thursday, September 5, I stepped onto a plane for the first leg of a twelve hour journey to the island state of Hawaii. If you are connected to me on social media, you know that I have not posted photos of smiling faces on sandy beaches, yummy spam musubi, and lush tropical rainforests since then.

This was not a vacation.

I travelled all this way, s…