New Year

The constancy of change
Begets melancholia of sweetness
To revel in past exploits
And in the love besotted hearts of youth.

Were it not for you
I'd tear from the fibers of my heart
A minute reprieve
From the vicissitudes of warring hearts.

Yet far shores beckon
Shelter sought in as yet strange bays
Soon to be called home,
yet as unfamiliar to me as the unintended consequence of your love.

The view from near the top of Meyers Grade. This is somewhere near
where Black Bart held up a stagecoach. My view when I am leaving my
house (about 8 miles South).

Zippy Singer on left, myself on the right. It was cold!

Snow and hail mountain bike ride. You would not believe it but a half
hour after this foto we finished our ride in snow and hail. What
beauty amidst the chaos! More fotos to follow!

December 8, 2008

One view of a 1906 earthquake lake at Plantation Farm Camp. Taken on
one of our daily mountain bike rides on Seaview Ridge. Nice and
beautiful to share this with community in a beautiful place now called
home.

David

A Brief Update

Aloha - I am now living on my Family ranch by myself and working on call at two different hospitals. One of them is the Veterans Administration Hospital in San Francisco. I am working toward paying off my one credit card debt to free myself from being enslaved for the rest of my life financially. I also continue to work toward moving out of the United States and am applying for positions with Medicins Sans Frontieres, International Medical Corps and other organizations similar to them.

I was to return to Fiji this coming January but to my great sadness and chagrin I feel that I must do the 'right' thing and am unwilling to spend so much on so short a time in Fiji. That money will be better spent on going to pay off my debt for a quicker departure to work overseas.

Thanks for reading.

David