🎇 Over the last two nights I’ve enjoyed seeing all the houses lit up with Holiday lights while driving by. Each year there seem to be more and more houses joining in the fun. While definitely not as meditative as The Candle Light Ceremony from a couple of nights ago, I am experiencing the lights in a different way (as opposed to my “bah humbug, crass commercialism” perspective) - a letting in of joy and light as the days get shorter. ⚘
From a corner of my iPhone Home Screen. A little festive fun created with the help of Festivitas created by Simon B. Støvring.
The scene as we left the Candle Light Ceremony at my grandson’s school last night. Grades 3 and 7 took part last night, other grades will do their own Candle Light Ceremony through the week. Kindergarten, my other grandson’s class, will be on Sunday evening. It was a peaceful, meditative evening, recognizing the shortening days, the external darkness and the light within each of us, particularly the children taking part.
🌧️ It’s just started raining, hard. Unless it eases up or preferably stops, which I hope that it does, this evening might need a Plan B, or some reworking of Plan A.
I need this song today as it is anything but how I feel. It helps to lift me.
Pharrell Williams - Happy (Official Video)
I seem to be falling a day behind the last couple of days. This is yesterday morning’s rainbow. There were none this morning, so hopefully I am caught up now. 🌈️
😋 Oh simple joys. I just found a jar of Marmite at the back of the cupboard. Marmite can no longer be found here on Maui, and I have not ordered any in a while. I’m now looking forward to breakfast tomorrow. ⚘
Yesterday morning’s rainbow 🌈
A quiet beach on Maui’s north shore, strewn with tree stumps and the West Maui Mountains (Mauna Kahālāwai) in the background.
I caught a rainbow hiding out amongst the clouds yesterday morning. 🌈
🌕 Looking out over a ghostly lit landscape as the Super Moon casts its eerie light across the land tonight. ⚘
No matter where I have traveled, it is the people that I have met and seen along the way that have made the journey. Yes, I have gazed out onto scenery that has moved me and stayed with me long after I have travelled onto new vistas. Yes, I have gone searching for solitude in nature, away from the busyness of everyday life and the concrete jungles of our modern cities.
😕️ Some days I seem to be able to get things done with clarity and all the time in the world. Other days I feel as though I am stuck in treacle, every job feels hard and difficult, and little appears to get done. Today I am having both days in one! ⚘
A faint, partial rainbow this morning. 🌈️
The trees across the valley from us lit by the rising sun, the light on them contrasting strongly against the dark storm clouds behind them.
Finished reading: Train Dreams by Denis Johnson. I didn’t know what to expect, picking up the book when I learnt that the new Netflix film, which I haven’t seen, was based on a book.
On one level a simple story of a man’s life, but also as I read it of his connection to the natural world around him. I look forward to seeing how the book was interpreted for the film. 📚
I have just gone searching back through my blog. It seems that I have written about migraines on a number of occasions. There is probably a reason for that - I get migraines with irregular frequency. I have another migraine right now. This migraine has come two weeks after the last one cleared, and that one lasted four days. I have no idea what caused this one. In fact I don’t have any idea what have caused any of the migraines that I have had since I was in my mid-teens.
Two days after Thanksgiving, the dinner leftovers all thrown in together into a pan and heated up look like goop, but taste ssssoooooo good. Dare I say better than on Thursday when they were presented beautifully with care and attention?
🌊 We live about 1½ miles from the ocean. You know when the swell is big when two things happen.
📻️ Those times when I arrive home but do not get out of the car as I am listening to something on the radio and don’t want to miss where it is going. This time The Moth Radio Hour on HPR1. ⚘
A Cardinal on the beach yesterday. I tried to also tried to catch a photograph of a Common Sandpiper (Hawaiian: Ōpae ʻula) that was searching for small crabs to eat, but it was moving too quickly.
