Mining the gold in the mundane. It’s in there somewhere, I know, I just have to find it…..Patience? Gratitude (for having work to do)? Other?
2019
Reflecting on time spent…reflecting, last week. Retreat.
Retreat
Tuesday, February 5, 2019
With my wife away for 10 days visiting her mother, I decided to dial things back at home. While work continued, outside of that I spent more time alone, reflecting, reading and writing. A semi-retreat. In part that meant less online time, and no time in micro.blog. Time away was good, and I look forward to returning to the conversations.
Up early from some Morning Pages.
Yes this is for real. Sunset this evening. 😳
Feeling peaceful in the quietness of the early hours of Sunday.
The cliffs at sunset yesterday evening. There was a swell coming in with some big waves breaking.
I love waking up early and listening to the dawn chorus.
The Beauty of writing.
Don’t just think it, write it.
A reminder to self.
I was reflecting this morning after clearing out a cupboard that we have under our stairs. I remember reading or someone saying to me that we do not throw things out, we just put them where we can’t see them.
Sunset over the West Maui Mountains last night.
The clouds this morning.
Reading: ‘Voice of the forest’: George the snail, last of his kind, dies at age 14
“In a few minutes I collected several hundred specimens, picking them from trees and low bushes as rapidly as one would gather huckleberries from a prolific field,” a collector named DD Baldwin wrote in 1887.
At that time, Hawaiian land snails existed in a mind-boggling 752 varieties – about as many as exist in the mainland US and Canada combined.
Not long home from the Annual meeting of the ManKind Project’s Maui community, to elect new council members and to reflect on the where we are at for the year ahead. Feeling honoured and grateful to be a part of this community of men.
Sunset over the West Maui Mountains yesterday evening, while watching the surfers at Ho’okipa.
Reading: The school using giant book murals to encourage reading
Reading Crow and Weasel by Barry Lopez, Illustrations by Tom Pohrt 📚
My wife sometimes accuses me of living in a cave because of my like of having as few lights on as possible in the house (in part because bright lights hurt my eyes). Our household can sometimes be a push pull of one turning lights on while the other is turning them off!
Ritual on the south shore of Maui. Attending a friend’s wedding yesterday evening.
It is just so quiet and still this morning.
A cool and clear morning here. I love the winter temperatures and light on the island.
The script that @cleverdevil shared to post a grid of photographs is giving me a blank page. The cursor recognizes that images are there, but no image displayed. Clicking on the “image” brings up the original. I have noticed the same on other users' sites. Anyone else? // @manton
Windows on the world.
Morning bounty from the garden.
Well it sure is cold here in Maui this evening….and I’m loving it! 😄
I love silence. We are the best of friends and perfect partners.
I have not been on micro.blog over the New Year weekend. Just dipping in now for a peek as the second day of the 2019 comes to an end. And so I will take the opportunity now to wish everyone here a very Happy New Year.