Talk Story in Hawaii is a Foreign Concept on Mainland

Lottie Kendall This is a different concept in Hawaii. You do not get to purchase a bottle of water without an interaction with the clerk at the cash register, LOL. You will tell that person where you are from, how long you have been on island, and that person will share personal details with you. You need to acknowledge that clerk as a human being before consummating your transaction. But Talk Story is not limited to transactions.

Joan Cox See, if you were in Hawaii, you might join the conversation.

Joan Cox Yes, I am in synch the moment I get here. It used to take me a few days but anymore. Smell that lovely metallic vog, and I'm in heaven! I don't sit in front of my computer all day like I do in Sacramento. I actually go places. I tend to spend more time writing and more time talking to people. It's just not as fast paced as Sacramento.

Myrl Jeffcoat You know what you're doing here, LOL. You have tons of family around you. That's your reason to stay in California. I say the worst day is Kona is better than the best day elsewhere.

Kathy Streib The thing is everything has become so depersonalized. All of our interactions are specific to our own goals, and we tend to overlook the fact that people are real. It is as though we are here to perform a task, and our private life is private.

Removing our personal connections to each other is disturbing. Being in Hawaii means I reconnect with the human race.

Carol Williams Yes, we ought to slow down but nobody cares. Bottom line. And that's a bit sad.

Ginny Gorman Did not really feel the 12,000 earthquakes over 30 days but the vog was so bad there were RED days I had to close doors, windows, turn on AC and run the Dyson to purify the air. Before I even read email in the morning I checked the air quality in Kona. Yellow days were OK but orange days I went inside. When you can't even see the ocean, that's bad.