That year I was on a tourist driven Island paradise. I had become a gypsy by August and was living in and out of my Toyota Tercel after I helped a 70 plus year old woman find not only the strength to walk but her love 4 life as well, all through 2 herbs. Her Dr. Said she wouldn't walk much because of age and the hip surgery. In 2 weeks she went from bed ridden walker to the bathroom to hiking her favorite trails.
My room became the room for her new found boyfriend Jack as cowboy as they come. An old stud still rutting and strutting. We where higher up by Makawao and the Zen of the view burned visions of spiritual paradise into my soul. The weather was always mild, warm but cool so high up. The clouds constantly draped or shadowed the view in the distance Kiaha side. Its been donkeys ears so i think it was Kiea? It was flat in the middle and you could see the patch work of climates changes in weather ,towns micro climates up untill a small city from her spot. Laurna's. We where on the other side of patch work up half way the mountain of the famous telescope over looking Kieha and flat island untill it became a violent vertical jade walls acending into the clouds. Some great cloud watching on my time off listening to Moon light lady. Like a mystical distant kingdom The mountain engulfed the island from side to side with the vast flat network connecting the 2 mountains.
I became a vagabond, a gypsy, I found refuge at Twin Falls for a short period, I loved farming so became the only non trust fund person sharing the community to take growing food seriously.
I had my little Tercel that needed work but ran. I scored it for 400$ I didn't have a ton of money and would occasionally landscape with the owner of Casanovas by Makawao who was having a slow go at his restaurant.
I would go back to Lorna's to chat with Robin an old artist that rented a spot on her property &spent her time making pottery to sell at the local tourist shops. Robin loved to tell me about the latest news and it seemed to depress her badly. Or we would talk about far out theories in a sense. The world before mass internet , far out science was spread by travels. I had learned some interesting stuff in Ireland.
So one evening just before dark, it was dusk about 5-530 and Robin like to have the TV on, most of the time it was ignored and usually I would show up unannounced. No phone.
A show about Ted Coppells time in Afghanistan came on. As soon as that came on it was like a magnet was pulling my attention, my zen like state was no longer worried free but deep agitation. I began to stand then pace the room worried as I had just witnessed a horrible crime, but before it happened. I never stood or paced during our conversations. She asked what was wrong. I said something about that show, Afghanistan was and would be the beginning of the end times, a darkness that no where on earth would be free from. It was so clear.
My old manager on an organic farm an athiest of sorts jewish agnostic was blown away when a similar event took place where I was at a house that had been turned into an Art museum and I spent the tour of randon art telling him the impressions I was getting about the family that had lived there. I kept telling him, he just ignored what I was saying as if I was having a scitso episode of some sort. I saw or imagined kids playing, wearing boyscout uniforms running up and down the stairs and swinging on a tire swing. I saw native servants, before we left I told all this to the desk lady, she verified all of it every last detail as the house was donated by the family. My explanation of the vision was like a once lit match, the flame is gone but the smell lingers in the air. My manager became as white as a ghost and said not a single word on the 20 minute ride ride back to the farm. That was 1999-2000. This was not a gift that I could turn on and off. Another time we had visited an old Buddhist Monastery and he had not told me as it was now a farm. But I could feel or sense a deep sense of meditation. Tranquility poured off those walls. I told Erik Frye the manager and he verified my intuition that time latter.
This time my manager was in California contemplating starting an Organic Olive Farm. The farm was still there i had lived and worked on in Haiku. Lee- Lopez, but I was elsewhere. The old goat barn I had renovated after getting tired of a wet tent became a palace as a gal from new york took it over and made it nice. Livable. Not as simple as I had it. My nickname was little Budha by some and she had made it a spiritual shrine of sorts.
This time again this impression hit , I didn't see anything just felt darkness, death, destruction, and no where on Earth would escape what Evil was comming. I felt Trapped.
It lasted the night. I apologized to Robin and then left back for Twin Falls.
A few weeks or a month latter, and before all this an honorable mention to the few times I read about Duke the local old guy playing basketball in his 70s with the locals if that was his name by a faded memory. He was a silver mustache and flowing hair gentleman, tan, built, he was very fit. All this came from Robins sunday news paper when I was staying at Lornas. I would do the same in Ireland. There was a story about traveling in France and subway bombings. I found that memorable. It stood out to me, by the time the show hit I was living elsewhere with no real TV acess or newspapers. Just camp fires and me telling the kids the Story of The Ice Queen and Fire king. That i made up everynight and added chapters to the story as we watched the fire. The parents would ask ease dropping where does he get this?
9.11.2001
I traveled around the island alot to visit people or to hit up my favorite health food store called Mana for healthy delicacies. That morning at 9 wich is like 11 or 1 elsewhere because the sun is up by 6 and down by 6. Its hard to sleep pass 6 with everyone calling people on land lines to make plans or do things.
It was odd driving into Paia on Maui. It was vaccant. No tourist convertible cars, no tourists in colorful floral shirst. It was empty.
I parked up the street and walked. Some people of the few that where there seemed dazed. Lost. Stunned. In disbelief. I wore my Turkish Muslim hat that was a gift from a Turkish brother inlaw. My hair was long ontop and thick. That hat was like a good comb or beanie (called a Kufi Burgandy and white) I recieved sometimes an angry look like it was my fault as I walked by. Never before had this been the case. Im not a muslim.
Latter that day back at Twin Falls my friend Noah showed me a pre recorded news on a vhs tape on the 1 TV some one had hidden on the vast property what had happened. We puffed on pure oxygen and talked politics. Ziac also a new resident on the commune from New York was upset but said that business men pay to rape children tied to beds in New York as he used to own a business in New York and new about the dark side. He was upset but in some way thought of it as Karma.
After 9.11 the owners of Twin Falls returned from bigger paradise ponds in the World. Rainbow and his wife who I forgot the name. True 1970s error hippies. Our campfire community parties where me often times as the Tea Master as I was called some nights of huge vats of tea often made from local plants ended. My singing with a random Yogi hindhu guy who loved to play his Indian harpsicord and sing Hindu songs in the middle of a random day by the other comunity fire pit, my basic yoga instruction to new guests, our free love in the true innocent sense, no orgies or mass drug abuse, just families sharing food, many families from other communities or locals shared our night camp fires, lectures from a traveling Shaman one night as he puffed on a cigar and had us all melting in unity by the end. Another night a traveling Indian Peoti ceremony with T.P and al- no thanks - All where whole books worth of experiences. Some magically spiritual times. Lots of work on gardening. Swimming at twin falls. The place we lived shielded us from the horror of 9.11.
When the owners stopped traveling, they demanded all new people of the community leave. I was so young then, and was not old enough or self sufficient enough to stay even though I had found an acre of land to farm but had to live in the surrounding jungle and sleep out of my car.
Ziac wanted to find land and start his own. I got him to look at the island closest since it seemed the least touristy and the most old school Hawaiin. At the time it was a no go for him and Justin Thyme. He wrote a letter years latter asking for me to return. The one rule he wanted was no kids. That to me was a deal breaker. Yes the kids could be wild, especially the toddlers but wanting to be a father was and still is an Eternal part of my Being.
In a month of so of feeling like I was at a dead end even though I was living on a wind swept pineapple farm an acre rented to me, I was to young to pull it off. I left back for Maryland after selling my car for 400$ desiring other places to do one day my own land projects possibly community or part of 1. Life is one long Dream untill we wake up in the after life. Or on Hawaii
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