I
paint pictures with orange skies and purple trees and write stories that
explore the recesses of their character's minds-in a casual way. I
also own a little bar called Kahale Beach Club in Kihei on the southern
coast of Maui where I can take refreshment and watch the whales play.
Maui
has been home since I came to Hawaii by chance in the summer of
nineteen seventy eight. One perk I have as an artist and writer is I
can survive in one place about as well as any other, so why not wake up
to a pleasant day?
Occasionally my friends lounge in the shade
of five palms that line the grassy knoll at the beach of Keawakapu -
the Hawaiian word for forbidden harbor according to my bartender, Kimo
Kuaana. They sip mai-tais and gin as they prattle on about this and
that.
Sometimes I join them, but you may be more likely to find
me in my studio a block away readying paintings for show or writing
whatever comes to mind, and that's okay with me.
