Turning seventy years old last October, really hit me hard, I soon realize that in the next ten years or sooner I will be dead, and if I am lucky to live a little bit longer, I probably have dementia, bed ridden, and be blind, pretty scary stuff, but in the last five years when I was thrown out of the work force, I started my journey of discovering what life can really offer me.

I found myself wanting to promote a photographer who built a thirty five foot camera that incorporates a six foot film negative, his mission was to capture the disappearing cultures of the United States, it was great to be on his team, and I am still trying to get the word out, and in a new direction, to focus on the missions of our largest corporations, I was very fortunate to be featured on Jeff Weiner’s Linkedin blog, and was found another photographer that had a great photographers portfolio site, I am still hoping that it can still get back on track, I reached out to a high school buddy and promoting his animal companion wellness center, I am a supporter of our Native Americans, and grateful that we had the Navajo Code Talkers that helped America defeat the Japanese in World War II, I recently made contact with a former TV star in the 1960’s and trying  to promote his projects.

However my greatest endeavor, that has given me answer of what my journey is suppose to lead me too, is that of reaching out to an Apple Computer Company founder of only twelve days, and yet he did own ten per cent of the company, he did what he felt was right, computers, and it’s future was not right for him, but still he taught me that money is not the reason that you live your life, sure it makes life go smoother, but at the end of the day you go to sleep like everyone else and have to wake up and start the process over again.

I suddenly realize that my former Apple Founder friend, Ronald G. Wayne showed me that what we know today as the Apple Corporation, has many founders, sure Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak were the original founders, but all those people who influence our two Apple founders, helped make Apple, America’s largest corporation, Steve Jobs adoptive parents, his Syrian father, his biological American mother, Steve Wozniak’s parents, the tens of thousands of Homestead High School fellow graduates, Steve Job’s traveling friend, Daniel Kottke, their families, girl friends, teachers, former employees, bitter enemies, their successes, and of course their failures, has been the foundation for Mr. Wayne’s desire to develop an “Apple Founders Museum”  concept. I worked hard collecting high school year books, magazines, autographs and may more artifacts that can emphasize that here are many Apple legacies  that has been hidden, the importance of having that one high school teacher or high school club that can motivate you to find one’s calling, your attitudes, friends, and enemies are your building blocks, your family love is what really counts, and especially that even if you make the wrong decision, it really does not really matter.

I want to thank Steve Jobs, for giving a graduation speech at Stanford University on June 12, 2005, even though he never graduated from college, he has inspired me to find my mission, and I have been very fortunate to share my www.howiemaui.com blog with you, and when the times comes that I blew out my last breath, that my words, ideas and many frustrations will be forever stilled on what we call the internet, our “Whole Earth Catalog”.

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