I’m feeling guilty about failing to post anything substantive for several days. It’s not for lack of trying.
I’m still trying to track, report, and explain details of the remaining bits and pieces of the Miske case. Some may have interest on their own, others reflect back and help interpret what’s come before.
But when I sit down to write what should be a straightforward post describing a recent development in the case, I find myself involuntarily adding context and detail based on prior disclosures and the hundreds or thousands of case documents I’ve gathered over the years. Interesting stuff, but then the writing bogs down as I try to pry the recent happenings from the unnecessarily added details. But what details are “unnecessary?” What are useful additions to help explain the events? I’m proceeding by trial and error, and have a bunch of false starts to show for it, definitely not efficient, but the best I’ve come up with for now.
And then there’s another issue. What’s “the story” in these recent sub-plots? Are they primarily of interest in themselves, or because there’s something new that they reveal about Miske or his organization? I’ve tripped over this several times recently as I trying to push a couple of these stories out as blog posts.
Here’s one of the things I’ve tripped over. Miske knew that he had a daughter, a bit younger than his late son, Caleb. Different mothers. I don’t recall seeing any mention of her or her mother in any prior Miske proceedings. She’s a Kaneohe woman raised by her mom and stepfather. I’m not going to use her name here because it’s not clear if she had any knowledge of the criminal activities of her biological father. It appears that Miske made an error in reporting the year she was born. If so, what does that show? Was he trying to conceal her identity, or did he have so little contact that he kind of guessed at the year? I don’t know. But it’s clear that her story would be interesting to hear.
In any case, I’ll try to take a bite-size piece out of these various bits and pieces and get it posted soon.
And so it goes on a cloudy Wednesday morning in Kahala.
Stay tuned.
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Blessings for all you do. When you are ready, the information will come forth.
I hope you are planning to write a book about this case.
You are doing what philosophers, scientists, historians, and professionals in all fields do — notice an interesting phenomenon, study it deeply in all its convoluted detail, create hypotheses to explain the details and their interconnections, gather additional information to test the hypotheses and plumb further depths — and then you feel a need to describe it all in ways other people with less knowledge can understand. I’ve been there and continue doing that; and so do some of your readers. It’s a bug that somehow got inside us and never stops bugging us. We would like to keep working on a problem until the work is finished; but we can never finish it — we just keep working on a project until time or other people take it away. Michelangelo said, “I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.” Da Vinci said “Art is never finished, only abandoned.” Best wishes for a continuing and successful journey.
a wonderful explanation Ken!
I’m a storyteller and I struggle with over-explaining everything because context does matter. At what point do people stop reading though, if it gets too long? That seems to be less because the internet is comprised out of short quips these days. Then no matter how long it gets to adequately explain, there’s always someone who will misunderstand something anyway even if they do get to the end.
The blog format is good here because you can write as much or as little as you want to, and you can always link to other sources for background. People seem interested in the topic so you’re doing something right.
We appreciate all that you do, Ian. Slogging through legal documents is not easy. Constantly torn between getting buried in the weeds or missing a nugget.
I ALWAYS find something enjoyable or edifying about your chroncles, Ian. Keep up the good work and take all the time you need.