The road home

It's nice to travel, but it's nice to go home too.

Photo: Windward O'ahu, Hawai'i

(c) Bruce Behnke 2011

all rights reserved

Fallen beauty

Photo: O'ahu, Hawai'i

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(c) Bruce Behnke 2011 all rights reserved.

Why we are all rich

Photo:  Oahu, Hawaii

By: Bruce Behnke

(c)2011 all rights reserved.

Rabbit Island

The rabbit is sleeping, I think.

Off of the windward coast of O'ahu Hawai'i

Photo by Bruce Behnke

All rights reserved (c) 2011

Time and tide wait for no man

Stairway to Heaven II

In memory of Ryan Suenaga, who died in a hiking accident this past weekend.

Stairway to Heaven I

Ko'olau Pali

Ko'olau Pali, O'ahu, Hawai'i

Photo by Bruce Behnke

(c) 2011 all rights reserved

I'm back!

Thanks to all of you who wrote and expressed concern over the lack of posts during the past week and a half!

I've had two delightful sets of international visitors and have been enthusiastically involved.

It's a little early to share details, but suffice it to say that book two is out of my photo lab and into the hands of my capable editor and publisher.

nature, randomness, and creativity

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature. 

- Eric Hoffer

Is the distribution of plants and flowers on the forest floor random?  Is nature random?  

Is the movement of this mobile random or orderly?  Is the mobile creative?  

Is Eric Hoffer right or wrong?

one at a time

"Sometimes I feel overwhelmed. But I try to work one day at a time. If we just worry about the big picture, we are powerless. So my secret is to start right away doing whatever little work I can do. I try to give joy to one person in the morning, and remove the suffering of one person in the afternoon. That’s enough.
When you see you can do that, you continue, and you give two little joys, and you remove two little sufferings, then three, and then four. If you and your friends do not despise the small work, a million people will remove a lot of suffering. That is the secret. Start right now."

~Sister Chân Không, Buddhist Nun
 Learning True Love: How I Learned to Practice Social Change in Vietnam




Photo: New Growth Forest Floor
O'ahu, Hawai'i
(c) Bruce Behnke, 2011