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Marking another trip around the sun today. It’s also Ash Wednesday, an important reminder that all things are temporary. Dust to dust. Ash Wednesday feels especially fitting for a birthday celebration in NYC, where time moves fast, but memories of my past life here linger.

Wellington, you are beautiful. ❤️

Saying there are only 2 genders is as silly as saying there’s only black and white, but no grays. Gender is a spectrum and there are as many genders as we have words to describe them. How many shades of gray are there? As many as we can name and then some more. Same with gender. 🏳️‍⚧️

My name sounds way too similar to the Māori greeting (Kia Ora) that I keep whipping my head around at the start of every airport announcement in Auckland. 🫢

Sunset hikes are the best

YouTube video by NBCUniversal Archives Anita Bryant's Pie to the Face - www.NBCUniversalArchives.com

The pie-in-the-face moment was a brilliant example of political speech . It mirrored the ridiculousness of Bryant’s anti-gay advocacy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tHG...

Blazing new trails in 2025

First hike of the new year complete! Today’s mantra: Celebrate each breath as the start of a new year. Because it is.

Let’s go ride in a red canoe that’s been given an amazing name.

O tannenbaum O tannenbaum how lovely are thy Blanches

Sunday = hike day 🏔️

Once I get my hands on the wine advent calendar, I don’t reenter until January.

Nothing hits quite like those first few moments of Maui ☀️ coming up over Haleakala

This is great!

The Supreme Court is implementing a pilot program for the public to apply for Courtroom seating through an online lottery. Lottery winners get reserved seating for a particular argument.

www.supremecourt.gov/publicinfo/p...

HELENA, Mont. (AP) - Montana Supreme Court upholds a lower court ruling that allows minors to receive gender-affirming medical care.

Personally I would be more willing to pay for a social media website that made protecting marginalized people a core part of its business than one that offers them up as bait for bigots. That's my preference

Hannah Kobayashi found safe more than a month after disappearance, family says “We are incredibly relieved and grateful that Hannah has been found safe,” the family said

Maui’s Hannah Kobayashi has made contact with her family and is safe. 🙏 I don’t know her exact circumstances but who hasn’t dreamed of disappearing for a month worhiut telling a soul? www.hawaiinewsnow.com/app/2024/12/...

But missing a six-pack 😩

And even worse than Satan — the word “power” as a one-syllable “pow’r”

Not Italian but I am Puerto Rican which is Italian adjacent 😆

I live in Hawaii, like hiking, went to Penn, and bonus: unlike a certain someone, I’m not in prison. 👋

Welcome! 🤗

Currently trying to figure out if he attended any of the U.Penn alumni events in Honolulu. 👀

Really, really bad day for Tulsi Gabbar and all other Assad apologists. Great day for Syrians.

I’ll be giving a special Christmas message tomorrow morning in a sermon entitled “Queering Christmas.” You can check it out online at uula.org/fun. The service begins with holiday music at 11am PT, and I speak at around 11:20.

Post somebody you’ve been told you look like who you definitely don’t look like.

Honolulu Magazine’s “Best Lawyers in Hawaii 2025” has been released, and I am honored to have been recognized for my work in Land Use and Zoning Law. I love helping clients align their development goals with cultural and environmental values. The best part? I get to do it at home in Hawaii.

Drivel. Leaving X is a form of free speech. There is no moral requirement to continue to line the pockets of someone you politically oppose and who wants to ensconce himself into the apparatus of the state. Purity politics is nominating a FBI head who promises punish political opponents and media.