good morning. 7 am on this aloha friday!! still cold so i know the north winds are still blowing. north shore is probably super junky again so i’m not going to check. town is clean but back to normal for this time of year, which is flat. i was watching the olympic snowboarding competition and seen some amazing stuff. then i started to get bummed that surfing isn’t, and will probably never be an olympic sport. if there was a wave machine that would produce waves like pipeline in a stadium, it could happen. but until then, no chance. oh well…. but gosh, that guy shaun white who won the gold medal was amazing. he was doing some crazy stuff that i thought only sony play station games could do…
anyway, still working and keeping busy. got so many things going on now. better get going. have a nice day!!!
here is another mentawai surf report from matsu. this was hideaways yesterday. i guess mentawai is all year around too? scientists may be baffled about our weird weather pattern this year, but surfers are stoked!!! endless summer everywhere!!!
i came across this june 22, 2009 issue of time magazine. have any of you read it???
there is an article in there called Postcard: Tojinbo Cliffs… it’s about the increasing suicide rate in japan and how one man is making the difference….
did you know that japan has one of the highest suicide rates in the world?
each year over the past decade, more than 30,000 have killed themselves.
and a lot have done it from jumping off the tojinbo cliffs in fukui prefecture.
well, this 65 year old man named yukio shige has made the difference. has been scoping the cliffs 3x a day since 2004 looking for potential suicides. he’s actually tapped people on the shoulder and talked them down. then he would comfort them with a friendly chat or offer them some hot tea. it’s so amazing how somebody can spare lives like this. this man has a great gift and is using it in the right way. and the good news is that the japanese government found out about this true angel and granted him $100 million dollars over the next 3 years for his support. one amazing story!!!
suicide is a touchy subject. it’s not much talked about and i get sad even when i hear the word. i’ve known people who took their own lives or talk about taking their own lives. but in the end, guess who suffers? yeah, the family and loved ones left behind…..
life is short, live it out to the fullest. don’t let monetary things or this recession get you down. grab a surfboard and jump in the ocean. it will clean your body and soul. think positive and live a happy life….[:?????$B!x(B???:]
and someday i’d like to go to tojinbo cliffs to meet the man who saved many of lives. just going there to shake his hand would be well worth the trip….
