I am a curious person. This is a fact I do not deny. I am a skeptical person. I have to discover truths in facts. I am an accepting person. I blindly trust when I should question. I am curious of how I can be a skeptic who accepts. I sense demeanors. I observe. I believe.

I believe I will never sate my desire to learn. I know it is difficult for me to learn new languages. This is a disappointment. I will attempt to over come. How and When I do not know. I can only assume the answer is "to Live." Living introduces me to many new situations and ideas.

Living, while we breathe, is a routine we all share. My eyes are open to view scenes my mind hoards.

This past Spring, as these pages attest, I have been adding, and deleting, my personal hoards both mental and physical. Now, it is difficult to rid my mind of scenes which have been a constant for decades. Today, I realize much of what I have kept is of no importance. I will not divulge imprudent scenes for I do not know complete details. The only details I know are those which have been experienced by me.

Travelling with my diary and pen I find advantageous for memories are cemented by ink on empty pages. Recording what I do and think has become a routine I cherish.

Sprinkled throughout my diaries are sayings and fortunes I have gathered from tea tags and cookies. Recently, while going through one of those many boxes you have heard me talk about, I came across a tea tag I saved years ago. This tag says: "Success adores a prosperous attitude."

That saying - "Success adores a prosperous attitude" - summons up my daily routine of scribbling in these diaries. My attitude grows more optimistic with each passing moment.

Now, considering the situations in the World - this World - especially, those which are voted in by people - I will not add any adjective before "people," but, I do have plenty apt ones in my mind - I am astonished I can keep an optimistic attitude. Is it because I enjoy Living?

Living an honest Life is not a trick. It is aa terrific achievement. It would be easy to hide - or lie. Yet, is it? Is it "easy" to hide and lie? I don't think so. Hiding infers fear of being found; lying of being found out.

I am "out" for the World to see - and, now, read. My words are my thoughts. My thoughts may have come from the words of others which have been mulled over in the convolutions of my brain. I doubt, at this point, I have anything to say which is profoundly new. I don't doubt that what I say, and how I live, has become a routine which is achieving comfort and happiness.

Today, I have few variations in how I think. I have become a person with convictions many of which have been with me my entire Life. I cannot deny my love and my words.

I can, most easily, be optimistic due to a word I learned in first grade and never forgot. That word is a word often seen on the pages I scribble. That word is a word I often use as a greeting; and, now, many Friends have found the happy mystique of routinely using that hopeful word which brings a Smile to my face and Hope to my Heart. That Word? Aloha!

Living Aloha has become my daily routine. I am in awe of its strength. I am determined to never lose its powerful meaning. I am happy I have learned - Aloha!