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July 19th, 2010

Two weeks ago I was in Hawaii, on Oahu. It was a wonderful experience. There was so much sensory information and so much beauty and wonder and peace that I could not write. Eventually I will write about it.

I returned home very briefly then went on business travel to Minneapolis (hometown, yay). Home again briefly for a weekend and I am back on business travel, this time to the North Redington Beach area outside of Tampa, across the bay. A new experience.

Could this beach be the beaches I saw on Oahu? No, for a couple of reasons. I was fortunate to have visited the non-commercial beaches of the windward side. Here, on Redington Beach, it is commercial. I look out the window of the hotel dining room onto patio dining and onto the beach below. Is it fabulous? I think it would have been fabulous if I had not recently been to beach areas that were primarily residential and low key.

I saw sea gulls. Big deal? anywhere on the eastern seaboard it is not a big deal. But in Hawaii I did not see seagulls, or caught maybe one or two glances of wingspans that resembled them. So suddenly seagulls have become special again. (How many seagull photos do I have lurking in my home archives?)

The water felt warm and wonderful to my feet when I ventured out after dinner this first day. An exciting moment? Well, a good moment. The water in Hawaii had felt quite wonderful most of the time.

So how do we evaluate paradise? Is it in relation to where we have been recently? Can we only understand it in terms of our background and experience? I believe we understand everything in terms of our background and experience. The more I experience, the more I grow and know, and the larger an observer I am, and the more I can take in from new experiences.

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