Golf Bits (Oahu, Maui, Big Island)

Indoor Driving Range (Oahu)
For those like me who don’t want more sun freckles, head to the Aloha Golf Center’s indoor driving range! Just opened June 1, and the pro shop sounds fantastic. Will have to check it out soon. 2869 Koapaka Street in the Honolulu International Aiprot Industrial Area

Maui Golf Cartoon (Maui)
Called “Da Game”, Hawaii’s first gold cartoon airred locally and online starting in July 2010. It will cast local golf personalities, spoof sports news coverage, and simultaneously highlight Maui golf courses. Pretty clever marketing idea. We’ll see how it all flies.

Kama’aina Golf Rates (Oahu, Big Island)
Ewa Beach Golf Club: Kama’aina weekday rate: $45 for a round of golf (689.6565)

Waikele Country Club: kama’aina rate for any age, $30 twilite rate, 7 days/week; Senior rates: $40 on M, T, W if 60+ yrs and a Hawaii resident; military rates: $40 M,T,W (676.9000)

Big Island Country Club: kama’aina $45 Mon-Thurs
Book tee times & find local tournaments: www.808golf.com
Golf Club Radio Show: Saturdays, 7-8:30am: FM 99.5 (Oahu), FM 104.7 (Maui), FM 99.9 (Kauai), AM 670 (Hilo) ro radiogolfclub.com

Hawaii Coconut MnMs

One of the coolest omiyage gifst i found in hawaii stores: Coconut MnM's!

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meditation

buddhist forms of meditation emphasize the practice of non-resistance. that is, rather than push suffering, pain, fear and distractions aside through various forms of psychological denial, one acheives a state of peace by accepting and sitting with pain and long-suffering. rather than fight it or run from it, there's an inner peace acheived through the element of accepting the things that one cannot change and simply letting things be and letting go of one's inner wrestlings. meditation is one path to achieving peace through the still process of simply 'being' with oneself, one's thoughts, one mind...and letting go of all the rest.

if this animation is an artistic interpretation of buddhist meditation, does it simply imply that the art of meditation and non-resitance is actually an alternative form of denial? that is, that in its effort to confront denial (of pain, sorrow, fear) must one bring oneself into an alternative state of denial vis-a-vis a re-imagined space of non-reality (such as the imagined place of cherry blossom trees in japan)? are they hence not both processes of denial? and thus is one form of denial really any different than the other?

hmmn, i need to meditate on that.

Sandy Beach (Honolulu)

It's still like summer in Hawaii. Put away those east coast fall mittens, and foggy northern state wool caps...Sandy Beach offers year round surfing--though dangerous and nick named "broke neck beach" for a reason. Nice respite away for East Oahu residents. (My local beach for a midday break.)