03-09-2008, 03:25 AM
There is also a thread called "Introduce yourself". Hundreds have. I am in North San Diego County and have a place in HPP. I DO try and recruit neighbors. That is, I tell people that I really like and who I think have the right spirit and understanding, or who play ukulele, about my place in Puna. I do not speak about my place to others. I keep it pretty quiet. When immature spirits find out about my Puna place from others and ask me about it I tell them it is 15 miles from the business end of a volcano, is in tsunami zone, built on solid lava and it rains 130 inches a year. Then they look at me like I am crazy, which I am, and wander away.
That is the desired result. I really think there should be a sign when you are entering kind of like the one when you are entering Pirates of the Carribean. Something like: Warning -- Here there be Volcanoes! With a skull, with melting lava on the forehead, and crossbones.
We only want highly eccentric people and their enablers here. Not the merely disturbed. Not low level control freaks just bursting on the scene with "fresh" ideas. Not hordes of Southern Californians who will lean on the horn at the first frustration.
We are looking for a strange combination of tender and tough. People tough enough to withstand the negatives of Puna, while expressing tenderness, empathy and aloha at every opportunity.
It really isn't for everybody, nor is the island. It has been said more than one time that the island selects you, not the other way around.
For that reason, there is not much danger that all of my neighbors will accompany me when I make the transition.
That is the desired result. I really think there should be a sign when you are entering kind of like the one when you are entering Pirates of the Carribean. Something like: Warning -- Here there be Volcanoes! With a skull, with melting lava on the forehead, and crossbones.
We only want highly eccentric people and their enablers here. Not the merely disturbed. Not low level control freaks just bursting on the scene with "fresh" ideas. Not hordes of Southern Californians who will lean on the horn at the first frustration.
We are looking for a strange combination of tender and tough. People tough enough to withstand the negatives of Puna, while expressing tenderness, empathy and aloha at every opportunity.
It really isn't for everybody, nor is the island. It has been said more than one time that the island selects you, not the other way around.
For that reason, there is not much danger that all of my neighbors will accompany me when I make the transition.