🍂 OK so the leaves aren’t changing colour here, but stepping outside this morning the air was beautifully cool and sharp. The weather will warm up as the day goes on, though we do have a front coming through the islands this weekend bringing rain. This time of year - autumn through to winter - is the time of year that I enjoy most here in Hawaii. For the cooler temperatures, the variety of weather and for the waves returning to Maui’s north shore - even though I do not surf, I do enjoy watching the ocean’s moods and feeling its power. ⚘
🥴 I can’t focus this morning. There are things on my mind and things that I need and want to do, and they are all fighting for my attention. No one is winning and nothing is getting done. My mind is not a fog, I can see clearly. More I am slipping and sliding, and deep down possibly avoiding as well? ⚘
This morning’s rainbow. It appeared gradually this morning. At first teasing, a faint colour in the sky hinting that a rainbow was there and yet maybe it wasn’t. Slowly the colours deepened and the arc of the rainbow grew, starting on the right and steadily reaching across the sky to what you see in the photograph. 🌈️
🌊 Stepping outside this morning, pre dawn and the world illuminated by the full moon, I could hear the distant roar of waves. I love that sound and feeling the power of the ocean even from so far inland. Winter is here. The waves have returned to the North Shore of Maui. ⚘
On dialogue…
(Nostra aetate) opened our eyes to a simple yet profound principle: dialogue is not a tactic or a tool, but it’s a way of life – a journey of the heart that transforms everyone involved, the one who listens and the one who speaks.
I’m returning here to the subject of RSS Readers mainly because I wrote about them a year ago here and here and I feel as though those posts are now misleading of the the landscape that I now reside in. Not completely, but some clarification could be needed…should you be interested!
🫣️ Sometimes I sit feeling safe because I am not putting myself out into a situation and so not opening myself to criticism - and of course the flip side of that, praise or maybe simply indifference. However that safe place can in time become hiding place, a place that handicaps me by disabling trust in myself. Today I celebrate putting myself out there, for being vulnerable. ⚘
📝 I used Apple’s TextEdit app this morning for saving some text documents that I didn’t want in Markdown or in a heavier duty text processing app…and it worked just fine for my usage. I’ve hardly ever used TextEdit as I’ve moved through versions of MacOS over the years, and I don’t know why? My tendency to look to third party apps, really. While I like to support third party developers, this is being written on Drafts, I feel as though I should really look to see what is sitting on the machine that I have sitting right in front of me. What I need might already be there. ⚘
There were a number of rainbows this morning. They all formed in pretty much the same area of sky and so instead of showing the whole gamut of rainbows that appeared, I am going with the first one that I saw as I stepped outside this morning….and I didn’t get many photos of the others anyway 😏 🌈
I’ve read a few books by Banana Yoshimoto, and this one I enjoyed the most. The others, The Kitchen was one, maybe Goodbye Tsugumi, I found more difficult. Perhaps I should return to them sometime and give them another go?
Changing things up a bit. A black and white photograph of a rainbow, along with the moon yesterday evening. 🌈
The local cockerels greeting a new day (you’ll probably need to turn up the volume).
Yes there were rainbows today. 🌈
This one from this morning:
And this one from this afternoon:
😒 Another discombobulated day, ending what has felt like a discombobulated week. I’ve got to learn to manage these sorts of situations better. I definitely wasn’t putting out the best version of myself at times this week. ⚘
Happy Halloween to those who celebrate. 🎃
I usually find myself watching from the sidelines, and one year I headed to the summit of Haleakala to watch the sunset and the stars come up…it is possible to see so many more at 10,023ft (3,055m). But boy it was cold! 🥶
I don’t usually celebrate Halloween, though as I drove home from my men’s group this evening I enjoyed seeing all the spooky decorations that people had outside their houses.
About to pull out of the local recycling center this evening I spotted this rainbow. 🌈
This morning’s double rainbow. 🌈
😕 Sometimes I feel as if I’m losing control of everything around me. The reality is that I am probably rarely in control, though the illusion indicates otherwise. ⚘
One thing that our increasingly wet weather has produced is a lot of snails. They are everywhere…outside, that is. I don’t think that I have ever seen so many here?
If I am walking around outside I have to watch where I am putting my feet, especially at night when they are most active. There is nothing worse than that crunch as I step one, sadly ending another life.
🙈 There are some men working on our roof, a second story roof, replacing optimizers on the back of a couple of our photovoltaics. I do not have a head for heights and can’t stand watching them working up there. Inside for me, or at least out of sight of the roof, just going out to checkin with them when their feet are on terra firma. ⚘
