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 March 30, 2023 Six years ago to this day of this month my now wife  Rebecca, son David, and our trust attorney met at her office in downtown Honolulu to discuss changes in our trust since we planned to marry. At the close of this meeting I asked our attorney if she knew someone who could marry us. She smiled saying that years ago she obtained the license to marry and after checking that day found out she had six more days on her current license. She had a luncheon appointment so Rebecca and I walked to the Health Department building and paid our $35 for our marriage application. On our return we were married with David as our witness.  I was widowed two years before. My wife had pancreatic cancer and died some nine months after the diagnosis. Our life together just got better and better so our past issues of estrangement due to my immaturity and work stress issues were uncomfortable regrettable fading memories. Rebecca had her own history. We met while hiking together so all I knew wa
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 March 3, 2023 Life goes on. Yes and life has changed. Life changed is interesting, frustrating, and requires my attitude adjustment which includes acceptance while searching for improvement. Well, that was a mouth full! I'm here, writing today in this blog to myself and anyone else interested. So my life goes on. The changes included sleep disruption at night, reading a book for awhile, taking some CALM a magnesium supplement, late at night either napping at the downstairs couch or back upstairs with CPAP in place. I rinse my nostril out with saline, use nose drops of two generic varieties to clear up congestion, but then wake up to go downstairs, After breakfast I nap again on the couch and make another cup of expresso latte. I continue to hike twice per week. Now, I'm the slow poke making my way this Wednesday up the steep mud slippery trail to the main Onikiniki ridge trail to the summit viewpoint. Windy rainy weather but the main hiking group was ahead of me so my current