Today I had the pleasure of connecting with fellow surfer and ocean lover Thomas Farber. Thomas Farber is a master in capturing the essence of life’s intimate moments, condensing the most profound into beautiful profound vignettes.Awarded Guggenheim and, three times, National Endowment fellowships for fiction and creative nonfiction, Thomas Farber has been a Fulbright Scholar, recipient of the Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize, and Rockefeller Foundation scholar at Bellagio.An Author of over 20 books of fiction and creative non fiction and has just published two new collections, Acting my Age and Penultimates.Awarded Guggenheim and, three times, National Endowment fellowships for fiction and creative nonfiction, Thomas Farber has been a Fulbright Scholar, recipient of the Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize, and Rockefeller Foundation scholar at Bellagio.Thomas Farber's other recent books include Here and Gone, The End of My Wits, Brief Nudity and The Beholder. Former Visiting Distinguished Writer at the University of Hawai'i, he teaches at the University of California, Berkeley.We connect today about his latest meditations on life, death, writing, the sea, women, Diamond Head and much more. All with humor, humility, gravitas, and wisdom, I’m grateful for his enduring lessons.Time Stamps

Wearing Black, Theatre Playing the “writer”

Publishing Acting by Age with Manoa Journal

Growing Older/ Acceptance / Being a Child of the 60s

On Spirituality(15:57 ) The Banayan Tree / Hāmākuapoko Ruins Maui

First Trips to Hawaii 1971

Collaboration with Wayne Levin

On Sailboats / The Book Of Love

On Minimalism, Scuba Gear, Surfboards

Epigrams

The 96 Year Old ‘Carrot’

On his novel The Beholder, writing about physical love

Doom Scrolling

Advice to young writers

Making Amends; New Projects