Sunny. Blue. Temp perfect. Relaxed.
Cyber gremlins here, as on Maui. Not only is this connection expensive, it’s episodic and occasionally slow. OK. Done wit dat.
Last night the moon was nearly full and Orion stood high in the sky with her. The moon was bright, but in the way only the moon can be, nacreous and gentle, not harsh and brilliant like the other great light in the sky.
A large chunk of black lava provided a seat as the ocean pounded in at high tide, wave after wave after wave. This ceaseless, persistent character of the ocean erodes the land, our habitat to make room for more salt water. A graphic of the sea mounts and islands in the Hawai’an chain, all the way out to Kure, some 1600 miles from Hawai’i shows them growing smaller and smaller until, after Nihau, most of the former islands are now sea mounts with nothing above the surface.
Liminal zones have always fascinated me and the shore, where ocean and land meet is no exception. Being a light skinned Northern European the daytime beach holds no interest for me, but the night time beach is ideal. There I can meditate on the convergence of these two great elements, water and earth, and watch a third, the sky, at the same time. At night there are few to no people and little heat. A moment made for me.
This morning we went to Koloa and took Kate to the doctor. She does not like to go to the doctor, go figure. Anyhow the local guy agreed with her that she has a sinus infection, faxed a prescription to Long’s Pharmacy and off we went to Lihue for the drugs. We got them and drove back to the Hyatt where I dropped Kate off for her lectures.
Now I’m just kicked back, after getting the server to recognize me again. Later.