{"id":327,"date":"2008-02-18T15:10:08","date_gmt":"2008-02-18T21:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=327"},"modified":"2008-02-18T15:10:08","modified_gmt":"2008-02-18T21:10:08","slug":"liminal-zones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=327","title":{"rendered":"Liminal Zones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunny.\u00a0 Blue.\u00a0 Temp perfect.\u00a0 Relaxed.<\/p>\n<p>Cyber gremlins here, as on Maui.\u00a0 Not only is this connection expensive, it&#8217;s episodic and occasionally slow.\u00a0 OK.\u00a0 Done wit dat.<\/p>\n<p>Last night the moon was nearly full and Orion stood high in the sky with her.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n<p>A large chunk of black lava provided a seat as the ocean pounded in at high tide, wave after wave after wave.\u00a0 This ceaseless, persistent character of the ocean erodes the land, our habitat to make room for more salt water.\u00a0 A graphic of the sea mounts and islands in the Hawai&#8217;an chain, all the way out to\u00a0Kure, some 1600 miles from Hawai&#8217;i shows them growing smaller and smaller until, after Nihau, most of the former islands are now sea mounts with nothing above the surface.<\/p>\n<p>Liminal zones have always fascinated me and the shore, where ocean and land meet is no exception.\u00a0 Being a light skinned Northern European the daytime beach holds no interest for me, but the night time beach is ideal.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 At night there are few to no people and\u00a0little heat.\u00a0 A moment made for me.<\/p>\n<p>This morning we went to Koloa and took Kate to the doctor. She does not like to go to the doctor, go figure.\u00a0 Anyhow the local guy agreed with her that she has a sinus infection, faxed a prescription to Long&#8217;s Pharmacy and off we went to Lihue for the drugs.\u00a0 We got them and drove back to the Hyatt where I dropped Kate off for her lectures.<\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;m just kicked back, after getting the server to recognize me again.\u00a0 Later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunny.\u00a0 Blue.\u00a0 Temp perfect.\u00a0 Relaxed. Cyber gremlins here, as on Maui.\u00a0 Not only is this connection expensive, it&#8217;s episodic and occasionally slow.\u00a0 OK.\u00a0 Done wit dat. Last night the moon was nearly full and Orion stood high in the sky with her.\u00a0 The moon was bright, but in the way only the moon can be, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=327\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Liminal Zones<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,9,12],"tags":[307,298],"class_list":["post-327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith-and-spirituality","category-great-work","category-travel","tag-307","tag-kauai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}