#Honolulu Blogger

[mkaneshige]

Mark's Writing Motto #50

The writer courageously puts their work out into the world and bares their soul in hopes of finding that special someone to connect with.  One who sees how they see, think like they think, speak like they speak and dreams like they dream.

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[cwtravelconcierge]

Honolulu, HI - February, 2013 . . . . . #photo #photography #photographer #photooftheday #travel #traveler #travelblog #travelblogger #blog #blogger #hawaii #honolulu #family #birthday #chasingw0nderful (at Honolulu, Hawaii) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpaTqeruGd3/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[killerandhealerqueen]

What made you pursue forensic science as a study? Was your love for detective shows a factor? Or did you want to know the gritty details of how forensics really worked?

Also, I was the 😅 anon before! Revealing myself lol.

Haha, hi! I would have made a tag for you when you were on anon, but I didn't know what 😅 would translate to in words, so I just left it as "anon edition". But if I make a tag, would you prefer "unknown edition" or is there another name you'd prefer?

Anyways, when I was younger, I actually wanted to be a nurse or a surgeon. But at the time I realized that 1) I'd have to deal with blood (I didn't like blood back then, blood doesn't really bother me now) and 2) I'd have someone's life in my hands and that scared the fucking hell out of me so I said nope.

But, I've also been very interested in science. English and science were the subjects I was always really strong in and I actually won an award in middle school for being super inquisitive about science, so that kind of...spurred me on to consider/pursue a career in science.

As I got older, yeah, watching a lot of crime shows did help, like CSI: Miami, Criminal Minds, the First 48, stuff like that and then I started watching Forensic Files and I'm like "That. I wanna do that". Also, anytime we took those like MBTI tests and they told you what sort of job you'd be good in, I always got either science teacher or criminal justice. So I kind of leaned into that as well.

In middle school, I was lucky enough to visit the Honolulu Police Department and talk with someone who worked as a crime scene photographer and sort of get the scoop on how crime scene investigation and stuff like that works so that also sort of helped me realize that hey, forensics is an option and it's kind of fucking cool and maybe I wanna pursue that.

In high school, I wrote a paper on what a CSI is actually like and how it's not everything the television shows make it out to be (the CSI effect and all) and surprisingly, doing all of that research just made me want to do forensics more.

And then in college, the college I went to actually had a degree in Forensic Biology, so I was fucking ecstatic about that. Same with my master's program. I'm very lucky that I was able to go to schools that focused/had degrees that I wanted to pursue in them and I'm also very lucky that my parents urged me to pursue this sort of degree.

Also, working at the morgue for two summers also really strengthened that I seriously want to work in the forensic/death scene investigation field and that we really help put a lot of families at ease.

Also, just learning how important death scene investigations are (sort of similar to crime scene investigations except one is done by the morgue and one is done by the police) and what goes into death scene investigations and what we do...it's all very fascinating and I'm grateful that I got to experience it.

Also experiencing an autopsy. That was a first for me, but I remember it very well and I also found that incredibly fascinating (the doctor was very patient and explained how and why he was doing what he was doing and if I wasn't getting my masters in forensic investigative science, I might have considered going to medical school to become a forensic pathologist).

So yeah, always sort of wanted to work in the criminal justice field, always sort of had the drive/urge to help people and I realized that not everyone has the stomach to be a forensic scientist but I do, so I should...maybe pursue it

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[finishinglinepress]

FLP CHAPBOOK OF THE DAY:What the Body Already Knows –2021 NWVS WINNERby K.E. Ogden

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In this award-winning, debut chapbook, K.E. Ogden turns our gaze to mapping grief as a transformative journey of resilience. These are songs of devotion to mud, bird shit, dead bodies, hot biscuits, a cat’s torn ear, shovels, and sawdust. Each poem translates tragedy into gateways for metamorphosis, inviting readers to make new worlds in changed landscapes, to see beauty in dark, shark-infested waters, and to find elation and joy in being alive.

K.E. Ogden is a poet, essayist, book artist and educator. Kirsten grew up in Honolulu, Hawai’i and the SF Bay Area, and she spent almost every summer of her teen and twenty-something years in East Louisiana roaming the backroads with her grandmother. She loves writing on porches and still uses a typewriter for most things. A poet laureate of Gambier, Ohio, she teaches in Gambier each summer with the Kenyon Review Young Writer workshops and is one of the founding bloggers for KRO: Kenyon Review Online. A two-time judge for the Flannery O’Connor short fiction prize, Kirsten is also a former recipient of a Poetry Fellowship to Changsha, China from the CSULA Center for Contemporary Poetry & Poetics and a winner of the 2019 Academy of American Poets Henri Coulette Memorial Award for her poem “My Atoms Come from Those Stars.” Her essays, poetry, and fiction have been published in Brevity, KRO: Kenyon Review Online, Louisiana Literature, Streetlight Magazine, Windhover, andberbo and elsewhere. Her digital quilt piece “My President: A Politics of Hope” was published at UnstitchedStates.com as part of a project curated by writer Gretchen Henderson. Kirsten is a certified Narrative Therapist and chairs the Creative Writing Committee at Pasadena City College. She believes that writing and poetry have the power to heal and to change the world. To learn more,

visit her website at kirstenogden.com

ADVANCE PRAISE FOR What the Body Already Knows by K.E. Ogden – NWVS #164 – 2021 NWVS WINNER

K. E. Ogden‘s stunning chapbook, “What the Body Already Knows,” is a journey through grief for a father who “hung the sun” and a troubled mother who lives in memory as “fingerprints in the tops of all those biscuits.” Every poem is rooted in the world of the body—of those we love, of the earth, and of the sea, where the poet surprises herself by “singing underwater,” a perfect metaphor for what Ogden’s poetry accomplishes: a music all her own, rising, above all odds, from sorrow’s depths.

–Rebecca McClanahan, author of In the Key of New York City and The Tribal Knot

Every once in a precious while, a book comes into my life that shakes me out of my long days and worries, one that offers me honesty and real connection to its author. K.E. Ogden‘s new collection of poetry, What the Body Already Knows, is exactly that kind of book. These poems provide an atlas of loss, both to it and away from it, line by line. Whether telling the story of a mother lost in her sleep, a day lost to rumination over the corpse of a deer, or an entire year lost to loss itself, these poems show a way through it all. Yes, there is pain here, and fear, hospital rooms, and heavy memories from hard days, but these poems are much more than specimens lined up as examples of troubles in a drawer. They are alive, and colorful, and covered in all manner of beauty to render life’s real value.

–Jack B. Bedell, author of Color All Maps New, Poet Laureate, State of Louisiana, 2017-2019

K. E. Ogden‘s What the Body Already Knows begins with a father highlighting for his daughter the way out. Of course there is no way out. This collection chronicles the “year of forgot to breathe,” the year both parents die. In a pastoral scene, we see the pond filled with tires and truck parts, the pond where they throw in a dead deer on the count of three. These harsh, beautiful poems stun us with honesty, grit, and transformation.

–Peggy Shumaker, author of CAIRN and Gnawed Bones

K.E. Ogden‘s “What the Body Already Knows” manifests the circular and cyclical nature of grief with stunning directness and clarity. These poems are “muckings of primordial mud,” yet amazingly they give words to what cannot be said. Ogden examines the wreckage of loss, and these parts are “scooped up to make a new world.” I have never thought of loss as a mirror before reading these poems, but grief in this collection becomes a way of seeing the self in a world forever changed.

–Adam Clay, author of To Make Room for the Sea

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[wyntswonderland]

We went to this park after our abandoned zoo hike that overlooked Honolulu.

[emthaw-blog]

Honolulu, Hawaii

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[mkaneshige]

Mark's Writing Motto #49

A writer never judges other writers. They merely take in the elegance and beauty ofanother person’s inner voice and observe the impact it has on those who value their words.

[grey2bay]

Honolulu as the sun sets over the ocean 🌅

[cwtravelconcierge]

Honolulu, HI - February, 2013 . . . . . #photo #photography #photographer #photooftheday #travel #traveler #travelblog #travelblogger #blog #blogger #hawaii #honolulu #family #birthday #chasingw0nderful (at Honolulu, Hawaii) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpaThfEgfbY/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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[namsienghi]

BTS: Behind-the-Scenes | 🦁Every performance consists of a lot of traveling 🚐 , waiting ⏳, and preparation & planning. Luckily we are blessed with beautiful surroundings of paradise 🌴, in the place that we call home. Hawai’i Ne 🌺 | #NAMSIENG #NAMSIENGHI #南仙 #舞獅 #liondance #blogger #summer #island #beautiful #waipio #honolulu #hawaii #scenery #bestoftheday #vscocam #weekend #happiness #happy #explore #lifestyle #igers #vsco #honolulupoloclub #video #iphoneonly #hawaiiunitedokinawanassociation #memories #teamwork #flashback #throwback (at Oahu, Hawaii) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bzy_Svml8Ax/?igshid=mtq38cwdhwqz

[empirelipstick]

Botanical Garden 🌿 #botanicalgarden #jurassicpark #hawaii #look #honolulu #travel #view #tropical #oahu #botanicalgardenhawaii #lookbook #ootd #blogger #fashion #oahuhawaii #streetstyle #island #islandlife #instalike #instalook {anzeige da verlinkungen } #anzeige (hier: Oahu Life) https://www.instagram.com/p/BnHptHAgimj/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1205yzs3joe7l

[wearsdani]

#WearsDani: Oahu Photo Diary - Part 1 

[thediamondl-y-f-e-blog]

How long are you willing to #hike to see a waterfall?? Manoa Falls is a 150 foot waterfall located in the Manoa Falls Trail in Honolulu, Hawaii. It’s about an 2 hour hike there and back. It’s totally worth it, The scenic trail is beautiful and the fall is absolutely breathtaking!-💎

[keatep]

Mahalo @honolulumuseum for the awesome prize from #artafterdark 🤙🏼🌺 #mahalo #thankyou #luckywelivehawaii #oahu #hawaii #honolulu #blog #blogger #vlog #vlogger (at Honolulu Museum of Art)