Living In Hawaii: A Five Act Adventure (so far!)

By Cristina Salat

What is life like on the volcanic Big Island of Hawaii?

 

Now featuring 2022 UPDATE, today author/ex-New York editor/artist sanctuary founder Cristina Salat would say: GREAT! But the journey of getting and staying in harmony with this intense location hasn't always been easy ... especially during challenging times here on Planet Earth.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Green Flame Omnimedia
• Release date: May 26, 2019
• ISBN: 9781393730132

Cristina Salat

As a woman of the wind, I have enjoyed years navigating the urban jungles and deep blue seas I call home.Website: https://cristinasalat.wixsite.com/website Eclectic e-store: https://livefromthevolcano.ecrater.com/

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LIVING IN HAWAII

A Five Act Adventure

(so far!)

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2022 Update

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Cristina Salat

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Living In Hawaii: A Five Act Adventure (so far!)/2022 Update/Cristina Salat

Summary:  What is life on the volcanic Big Island of Hawaii like? Today, author/ex-New York editor Cristina Salat would say: GREAT! But the journey of getting and staying in harmony with this intense location hasn't always been easy...especially during challenging times here on Planet Earth.

1. Hawaii  2. Personal Growth  3. Relocation

4. Environmental Activism  5. Consumerism  6. Self-Employed Artists

7. Manifesting Reality  8. Anchoring Energy  9. Intentional Community

10. Species Survival  11. Sustainability  12. Life of A Writer  13. Women Authors

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© 2019, 2022 Cristina Salat

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Print edition ISBN: 978-1393995661

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BOOKS BY CRISTINA SALAT

Gathering The Dreamcatchers Companion Novel Series:

BOOK 1: Living In Secret Deluxe Edition

BOOK 2: The Skin of Water/Defending The Dreamcatchers

BOOK 3: Esoterica

BOOK 4: Paradise Found

BOOK 5: Living In Light

The World Is Beautiful Illustrated Non-Fiction:

THE WORLD IS BEAUTIFUL: Illustrated Inspiration

BODY BEAUTIFUL: Photo Essay Ruminations on the Art of Being Nakedly Human

NEW WORLD NUDES: Pictorial Ruminations on the New Earth Underway

BRAND NEW EARTH NUDE: Envisioning the Birth of a Naked New World

Literary & Screen Novels:

Robin, Romeo, & Juliette (episodic)

Alias Diamond Jones

Eleven-Eleven/Huck Finn: Girl Pirates Extraordinaire

Swimming Lessons

W.A.R.P.

Illustrated Books for Young People:

Step-Whales

Peanut's Emergency

Witzel's Wish

Frogdemona: Precious Pest

The Blue House

Compilations:

Home Is Where You're Happy

Home Too: Secret Springs

Home in the Third Dimension

Community: The COMPLETE Missing Manual

Hawaii Triptych

Together Alone: Story Poems

Slice of Life

2017: A Collection of Stories & Life Snippets

The Big Picture

Ordinary/Extraordinary: A Compilation Combo

CREATIVE LIVING: From Starving Artist to Self-Employed Bliss

And numerous Green Flame Omnimedia Slims

Life's Pivotal Moments in Slender Packages:

We exist at a time when each choice matters

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Title

Copyright

Books By

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Act I: Introduction

Act II: Visions of Community

Act III: Hawaii

Act IV: Hawaii Reboot

Act V: Hawaii Now

Excerpt from nonfiction memoir

Dear Reader

About The Author

Resources

Special Note to Readers:

Having been eternally interested in people getting to live out fulfilling experiences with a sense of safety here on tumultuous Planet Earth (especially marginalized people such as: women, people of color, those without rich relatives, etc.), these past few years have found many folks asking, repeatedly, how living on the Big Island of Hawaii may have changed after enduring global events that began around the year 2020. Since I've been needing to jump back into this piece anyway (in order to remove reference links to a certain online mega-platform which various distribution channels apparently don't — or no longer— allow), I decided to tweak these reminiscences while doing the refresh, so that by the time you, dear Reader, reach Act V, the things I am sharing will remain contemporarily relevant now in the year 2022...because you know, in some ways, living in Hawaii has changed a lot over these past few highly pivotal years; while in other ways, I think I am really now finding myself just stepping further into the kind of life I'd actually been heading towards all along. :)

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ACT I: INTRODUCTION

First, before ever setting foot in the tropical isles of Hawaii, I moved to California from New York, heading west for greener pastures...and loved it.

Really, Los Angeles with its population of indie & Hollywood filmmakers was maybe calling me more, but I didn't have a boatload of savings — and like New York, L.A. isn't a place you want to be even relatively poor — so I'd decided that still-somewhat-beatnik San Francisco would be a fine introduction to California to start, as I attempted to leave the daily grind of working full-time behind an editorial desk in the official world of N.Y. publishing for the avant-garde adventures of becoming a full-time writer.

I found San Francisco to be a much cleaner, prettier friendlier city than Manhattan.

It even had palm trees.

It also had creative people and gay people and people of color galore, and (at least at the time I was there) cheap ramshackle homes that fledgling artists could rent as we went about the sometimes arduously long process of honing our craft, fulfilling our purpose, and making our mark on