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Molly Jacobson
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Jan 2

What You Need to Hear for 2023

There is nothing wrong with you, and you are not broken. You have been hurt and changed, but that doesn’t mean you have lost. When trees are seeds, they are not trees, they are possible trees. As they unfurl their tiny stalky tendrils and push through the hard earth down…

Change

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What You Need to Hear for 2023
What You Need to Hear for 2023
Change

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Feb 28, 2022

Fifty … and also … One.

What Happened When I Was Asked to Visit the “Workshop of the Mind” — Deep in my theater of the mind, I find myself in my terrarium, my workshop. It’s the size of a house, with a great vaulted ceiling made with beautiful panes of glass sealed together with bright gold, half of a geodesic dome. But the room is set deep in the…

Birthday

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Fifty … and also … One.
Fifty … and also … One.
Birthday

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Sep 11, 2021

An Infinitely Unimportant 9/11 Memory

My experience on that day is one of the millions that could be written down. I have never been able to write about it, let alone talk about it. I didn’t lose anyone close, and my story is insignificant when compared to the whole of that day, the enormity of the experience. The collective loss. But yesterday, on the eve of the 20th anniversary of the attacks, two dear friends asked me to write about my experience. They said “take 60 minutes and sit down and WRITE” about that day that haunts me. This is a smattering of my memories, just a shard of a window, prompted by this phrase: “It’s been twenty years since 9/11, and …”

9 11 Memorial

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9 11 Memorial

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Jun 2, 2021

Over-Tourism on Maui Behaves Exactly Like Cancer in the Body.

We Must Take It Seriously and Get Into Treatment Immediately. I think about and write about cancer every day in my business and personal life. I also think about and write about Maui every day in my business and personal life. I don’t claim to speak for anyone else, and I am not born and raised on Maui. There are…

Maui

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Over-Tourism on Maui Behaves Exactly Like Cancer in the Body.
Over-Tourism on Maui Behaves Exactly Like Cancer in the Body.
Maui

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Apr 26, 2021

In opposition to the Environmental Assessment for “Short Term Vacation Rentals for the Super-Rich”, AKA the Wailea Resort SF-S Residential Project

To the Maui Planning Commission, in re: https://www.mauicounty.gov/ArchiveCenter/ViewFile/Item/28124?fbclid=IwAR1lKvyqcdk77IKk0-xKl1sJyqfer4zndhT-daoyySbCFPcS2qme8UKwQCs Aloha Dear Commissioners, Thank you for reading my testimony today in opposition to the approval of the Environmental Assessment for the Wailea Resort SF-S Residential Project. I have several specific problems with this project. But first, I want to tell you a…

Maui

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In opposition to the Environmental Assessment for “Short Term Vacation Rentals for the Super-Rich”…
In opposition to the Environmental Assessment for “Short Term Vacation Rentals for the Super-Rich”…
Maui

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Mar 22, 2021

Troubling Doubling: How Adding an “Insignificant” 332 Visitors Per Day to Maui’s Population Will Forever Impact Our Island Home in Hawaii

My Open Letter Testimony to the Maui Planning Commission RE: the Maui Coast Hotel Expansion Special Management Area Application Aloha Maui Planning Commission Chair and Members, My name is Molly Jacobson, and I live in Kihei. …

Maui

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Troubling Doubling: How Adding an “Insignificant” 332 Visitors Per Day to Maui’s Population Will…
Troubling Doubling: How Adding an “Insignificant” 332 Visitors Per Day to Maui’s Population Will…
Maui

23 min read

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