He does not care for Valentine’s Day, thanks

Valentine’s Day: a day for roses and chocolate. A day for murmurs and kisses. A Declaration Day for love.

But I don’t care for it. It was on Valentine’s Day in the early 1980s when, while I was working as an EMT at a truck/motorcycle accident on Papa Street, a car hit me and damaged my life severely.

As this Valentine’s Day approached, I found out that Rose Marie Falcon, my wife from 1975-1980, died at Maui Memorial in 2019.

I am contented with my current wife of 35 years, and she with me. We adore each other. But Rose Marie was the love of my life; my best friend. I was so proud of her. She was accomplished, smart, cultured, and a stunning beauty.

A young lawyer in Wailuku stole her from me over four decades ago while I was away on the mainland, because my Dad was dying.

That lost life together still stings. Valentine’s Day. Don’t care for it, thanks. Richard “Oli” Olson

Haiku

Senate was not a true insurrection because there was no plan for what happened after success.

The Fourteenth Amendment was passed to solve problems after the Civil War; it doesn’t apply to the present because there was no civil war.

The Fourteenth Amendment should not apply to the man who promoted the Jan. 6 insurrection because “the voters should decide.”

It would be too chaotic for individual states to decide who is on their presidential ballot even though the Constitution provides for the states to run their own elections.

I predict that the Supreme Court of the United States will overrule the Supreme Court of Colorado.

I also predict that that they will not define exactly how the Fourteenth amendment should be applied to presidential candidates.

As in the example in the paragraph above, they will do what supreme lawyers do when they are confronted with problems they don’t like: make stuff up. Richard Thompson

Kula

By the time I chased him through my house, I saw him peel out of my driveway, stealing my 1999 Toyota Tacoma pickup.

Sometime during my evacuation of my home for a month, either this same person or another thief came into my home and stole all of my jewelry. Both times I called the police. Nothing has come of either incident.

I have lived in this house since 1985. It previously felt like a safe and pleasant place to be. The fences have been restored and I have a large gate which was closed.

I think it is important for people to know that these things are happening.

I have lived my entire adult life on Maui. I now realize that the quiet, casual lifestyle I have enjoyed is no longer possible.

I want to warn others so they can make necessary adjustments to their lives so that this threat of a home invasion and the theft of their property is less likely to happen.

It seems some good investigative journalism about this would also be helpful. I would like to inform people about my experience.

All of this has been so very difficult. Jeanette Evans

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