Aloha from Honolulu, Hawaii, and Pearl Harbor.

It is Candace Kumai, and this is the Wabi-Sabi podcast episode 33.

First and foremost, happy new year to everyone.

I hope you had an awesome first week.

We have this thing called First Friday here in Hawaii and my friends and I went out for a shoot and we got some great content

for the local mags here and we were just saying like how blessed we feel to like start the new

year off right. This is a really good time for everyone

to start thinking about what they want to shift their heart and their mind and their body and

spirit towards pursuing and what do you really want to get out of this lifetime?

I keep thinking so much about how in so much of life,

we have to like put on this front and be cool and like be somebody that we is like our

persona and not really who we are as a person.

And I'm over it.

Like I don't want to be a version of me that's not me.

And if anything, in love and in friendship,

everybody should just be themselves and be their best version of themselves.

And, you know, when I did that with Ponzi and

our photographer Reid this week, it was just like the three of us, like laughing the whole

time, enjoying life, and understanding that like God gives us all gifts and talents. And it is

doing no good if you're not utilizing those talents to be a better

service for others because in turn that makes you feel really good. Today was a really good day

of reflection. I hope that you guys have time to reflect on your life in these next few weeks.

...