Post #324702 by Tiki Lion on Fri, Aug 10, 2007 12:25 PM

Mahalo McTiki, I really appreciate your kind words of greeting.

My posting was so long I left out the part about growing up in San Francisco and New England (pair of parents each coast), traveling the world during late teens and twenties, grueling experiences squeezing multiple academic degrees from various institutions (I'm not much of an academic, just reallllly persistent)...

Point is, I just moved here last year from Sacramento, back in a real city for the first time in years.

What floors me (OK, well, the Mai Tai's and their ilk do that, but I mean other than that) is that in this new-for-me city, it is the previously unknown and unnamed Tiki (that has always been a subliminal core of my life) that makes me feel as though I have lived here for ever.

I am delighted you had a similar experience in Manhattan Beach as I had in my geographically displaced early life, especially since you have also found your 'ohana.

Aloha!