Shanzhai Lu

I was looking for some sort of reset button for my life and found it here in Hawaii.

Six summers ago, I was actually living here in Waikiki.

Completely burnt out and hung over from five insanely fast years in Shanghai.

I wanted a place I could just stay still in for a while as the rest of my life caught up to where I had been and where I was going.

I was looking for some sort of reset button for my life and found it here in Hawaii.

Then events in my life pulled me away from this island before I was ready to go.

Yet emotionally I never really left. I know this from the sense of place I feel each time I visit.

And I've visited about 9 times in the last year and a half alone.

So I think it was only a matter of time until I found my way back again.

And while I still have yet to pick up the tangible pieces of my life and ship them over here in the coming months…

In my mind, I've already moved back.