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2 HAWAI‘I ISLAND MIDWEEK NOVEMBER 10, 2021
Be Quick T But Don’t Rush
hough we had to slow down in many ways over the past 18 months, we still had to move forward. Yet, to me, even in slowing down,
it seemed we also had to go faster as there was more to do, more to think about and more to navigate.
If your life is such that you are still handling a lot, remember the difference between moving quickly and rushing. When you are moving quickly, you can still be mindful and thoughtful along the way. When you rush, you tend to be more mindless and thoughtless.
Don’t slow down too much, though, because if you become overly mindful you will tend to over- think, stall and procrastinate. Find the balance.
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Arc Of Life
“Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.” — Haruki Murakami
with
Dr. Ruth O. Bingham
Birth, life, death: It’s a package deal. We should know we can’t have one without the others. After all, we practice that arc of beginning-middle-end in almost everything we do: watch a movie, take a drive, play a game, work a job, get a degree, adopt a pet, live a day. And everything around us — even the Earth, the sun, our solar system — is moving through that arc.
We celebrate beginnings and wrestle roller-coaster middles, but endings are a bit harder.
Recognizing the circle of life in all we do helps us live life to its fullest.
The comfort I have found has been remembering his joy in living. The arc of his birth, life and death has reminded me of my own and that I, too, will die. But today, I am alive. His death was part of my life, and my charge remains to live as fully as I can: to give mourning its due, but also to enjoy every drive; fall in love with every book, movie and piece of music; to celebrate
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Endings can be lovely — sunsets are beautiful, win- ning/losing games is exciting, musical codas are satisfying — and fearing the end of life is like going to see the latest blockbuster and spending the entire movie fretting over how it will end, so endings should not be fraught — and yet they are.
beloved pet. He had a won- derful life and was many years beyond old. We have known for some time that the end of his life was coming, and his dying was peaceful. It is not reasonable to wish for more. But reason has its limits, and for now, my heart aches.
each and every day; and in the end, to embrace the sunset.
Dr. Ruth O. Bingham, a musicologist by trade, has retired from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa; she con- tinues to serve as music critic for the Honolulu Star-Adver- tiser.
Chasing The Light is pro- duced by Lynne Johnson and Robin Stephens Rohr.
This past week, we lost a
I understand that I am mourning less for him than for my loss, but I still mourn.
Fill in the blank cells using numbers 1 to 9. Each number can appear only once in each row, column, and 3x3 block. Use logic and process of elimination to solve the puzzle. The difficulty level ranges from Bronze (easiest) to Silver to Gold (hardest). Answers are on page 11
RATING: SILVER