June 25, 2008

• this week

  more stuff. i ride one of my bicycles (road bike, very much overkill, but the mountain bike is too heavy and the triathlon bike isn’t so good on hills) over the pali highway at least once a week, or so i try.  i’ve been in a new position, director of the office of health equity, for about two months now.  there’s plenty of work, since we are trying to reduce health disparities and improve cultural competency in both our department (health) and the state . . . not too much creative writing, unfortunately, and not much music.  i just got back from the pacific regional indigenous doctors’ conference two weeks ago, and then was back for a day, tried mediation over some issues with my daughter and her mom (my ex-wife) that wasn’t very successful, and then last week was washington, dc for training for presidents-elect of the affiliates of the american public health association (i’m the president elect for the hawaiii chapter).

  here’s a couple pictures of/from the pali
  

  

  Night

   

  The cold remote
  islands

  And the blue
  estuaries

  Where what breathes,
  breathes

  The restless wind of the
  inlets,

  And what drinks,
  drinks

  The incoming
  tide;

   

  Where shell and
  weed

  Wait upon the salt wash of the
  sea,

  And the clear nights of
  stars

  Swing their lights
  westward

  To set behind the
  land;

   

  Where the pulse clinging to the
  rocks

  Renews itself
  forever;

  Where, again on cloudless
  nights,

  The water
  reflects

  The firmament’s partial
  setting;

   

  – O
  remember

  In your narrowing dark
  hours

  That more things
  move

  Than blood in the
  heart.

   

                    
  – Louise Bogan

      

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