## Living in Maui: The Life Outside the Biography
The biographical connection to Charles Harrelson is the frame through which this article, and certain kinds of public attention, approach Woody Harrelson. It is not the frame through which he appears to experience his own life. His life as he has described it is organized around the things he cares about: his wife and his three daughters, his farm in Maui, his commitment to environmental sustainability, his advocacy for marijuana legalization and industrial hemp, his practice of Brazilian jiu-jitsu, his chess playing, his veganism.
He married Laura Louie, who had been his personal assistant and who became his partner, in December 2008 in a ceremony in Costa Rica. Their three daughters — Deni, the oldest; Zoe; and Makani, the youngest — were born over the span of a decade. He has spoken about his family with the warmth and groundedness that suggests genuine contentment: the settled life that stands in contrast to the drama of both his professional work and his biographical circumstances.
The Maui farm is a specific commitment — an attempt to live in accordance with the environmental values he holds, in the place he has chosen to make his home. Maui is a complicated place to make a statement about sustainability, given the environmental pressures that large-scale tourist infrastructure places on Hawaiian ecosystems, but the commitment appears to be genuine rather than performative. He grows food. He has reduced his ecological footprint in ways that his public statements have described over many years. The life in Maui is the life he has chosen, and it is a life organized around values that are in some meaningful ways the opposite of the values that organized his father’s choices.