9 bar rises 30.24 1mph NNW windchill 5 New Moon When I was a boy, say 12 and under, each summer I would visit my Uncle Riley and Aunt Virginia for a couple of weeks or so. They lived on the farm my grandfather had put together. It was a […]
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7:45AM. Bright sun. Blue water. Breeze off the ocean. Mourning doves coo. The mourning doves have had it goin’ on the last week. Males walk up to a female, bow, stomp their feet, then spread their tail feathers. Oh, yeah. I saw that move before. Last post from Da Fish Shack. My bags are packed […]
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8:53PM 73. Night. Clouds. Surf back. Strong, cool breeze off ocean. Humid. Kauai is old. Old and moody. It goes from sunshine to dark clouds in a moment, from dry to cloudburst. It’s peaks sharp and jagged, there are notches between mountains. Valleys run away from the ocean in deep v’s ending in waterfalls. A […]
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7:41AM Cool breeze. Overcast. Calm ocean, no surf. Last full day in Hawai’i. Time has passed more slowly for me than usual. Often, I go on vacation and the next thing I know I’m back on the plane headed home. This trip a variety of circumstances have slowed things down, among them Kate’s illness and […]
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When night comes, Maui or Pele or one of Them pulls the curtain fast. Dark. Stars. Where there was light. Fast. The Hawi’ians Great Work (see Thomas Berry’s book of the same name) was to manifest Aloha in their treatment of the land. Malama ‘aina means to care for the land as one would a […]
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4:35PM Overcast. 75. Ocean slate gray and calm. A full vacationing day today. Got up, got dressed and drove to Mango Mama’s. I went there thinking waffles, eggs and bacon, but when I arrived I discovered it was just a step away from vegan. They did have an interesting food, Acai, billed as the Amazon […]
Read the rest of this entry »The Hawai’ian Night
11:00 PM. Watched Jericho, the second TV program I’ve viewed in three weeks, not counting that Goldie Hawn movie that Kate and I watched together. The Hawai’ian sunset, the Hawai’ian sunrise, the wonderful sun during the day. Yeah, yeah, yeah all true. I want to say a word for the Hawai’ian night. Again. Clear. Black […]
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4:45PM 75. Cloudy. Ocean breeze. Languid is the word. Da Fish Shack has a languid atmosphere right now; I feel enervated by the languidness of it all. Or something. Outta here around 11:30 AM headed for Hanalei. Traffic was good and I got to Hanalei about 20 minutes after I left. I ate lunch at […]
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Sunny. Shirt sleeve weather heading toward swim suit. From the back lanai I can see rollers coming in that have curl, places for surfers to ride, but they’re all up on the north shore, Hanalei and westward toward Na Pali. That’s where the black diamonds are today. At least in surfing and skiing, black diamond […]
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9:23PM. Night. Clear sky. Orion stands over the back of da fish shack. Saw a mule with an egret on its back. So. I looked it up. Cattle egrets pick parasites off the backs of cattle and apparently some egrets do the same with horses. These are not cattle egrets, but, then again, these weren’t […]
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