Saturday, September 28, 2019 โ
A beautiful stripped down version of Genesisโ song Afterglow, performed as a duet between Tony Banks and Phil Collins from Genesis' album โWind & Wutheringโ. ๐ต
2019
The Exhaustion of a Family Visit
Thursday, September 26, 2019
From my experience people visiting and staying in my home always requires a break in my routine. There is entertaining, showing around, just more going on and the house feeling busier and more full. I don’t say this to complain, just acknowledging what the welcoming of visitors entails. For me, as an introvert and highly sensitive person, this creates an added struggle of overstimulation and exhaustion from the constant do, do, do along with accompanying conversation and noise.
Monday, September 23, 2019 โ
I’m probably late to the game here, but I like the cricket category on micro.blog ๐
Sunday, September 22, 2019 โ
South shore Maui. Sunset this evening.
Saturday, September 21, 2019 โ
The Kaupล Church on a wind swept peninsular, the south east side of Haleakala in Maui.
Friday, September 20, 2019 โ
Is iPadOS going out later than iOS13, or is it a case of a bit later where I am?
Friday, September 20, 2019 โ
Celebrating 56 orbits of the sun with a trip to magical Hana in East Maui. Here looking down on Red Sands beach.
Sunday, September 15, 2019 โ
Moon rise over the Barn.
Sunday, September 15, 2019 โ
I woke up this morning to the Full Moon setting, perfect light and the birds singing.
Bullet Journal - A Place for Mind to Relax
Sunday, September 15, 2019
Meditation is giving a huge, luscious meadow to a restless cow. The cow might be restless for a while in its huge meadow but at some stage, because there is so much space, the restlessness becomes irrelevant. So the cow eats and eats and eats and relaxes and falls asleep. ~ Chรถgyam Trungpa, The Myth of Freedom, pp. 48-9 Giving space to our thoughts At times my mind can feel very small and constricted.
Friday, September 13, 2019 โ
Wow! It is so quiet and still this morning. Ssshhhh…
When Shame Hits
Thursday, September 12, 2019
Shame corrodes the part of us that believes we can do and be better. ~ Daring Greatly, by Brenรฉ Brown From my experience shame can come out of nowhere. It hit me hard yesterday, and it can be a real gut wrencher. I met up for breakfast with some friends from my men’s group. I value having these men in my life and we were having a great conversation.
Tuesday, September 10, 2019 โ
The colours of nature. Chard, Collard Greens & Kale freshly harvested from the garden.
Tuesday, September 3, 2019 โ
I don’t know if this is just a US thing, but can someone tell me why after a holiday weekend does my online banking have a list of pending transactions? Do computers take the weekend off as well?
Tuesday, September 3, 2019 โ
I have just finished reading Reboot: Leadership and the Art of Growing Up by Jerry Colonna. A wonderful and inspiring read, fed even more by Colonna’s sharing of his own vulnerability. ๐
Tuesday, September 3, 2019 โ
Labor Day harvest. The first pineapple that I have ever picked from my front yard…anywhere. ๐
Wednesday, August 28, 2019 โ
Two young Bismarck Palms guarding the gate.
The Highly Sensitive Man by Tom Falkenstein has been published in English and dropped onto my Kindle last night. It has come with high praise. I’m looking forward very much to reading this. ๐
I just discovered this super simple, stripped down Twitter app for iOS. It is called Readme, and just shows your main timeline and your lists. That’s it. You can’t do anything else with it. Kinda nice. It will sit on my phone for a little while.
I have finally got around to updating my micro.blog site to include the new Photos page. This has revealed a need to tidy up my photos from back when I imported them from Instagram. Remove duplicates and hastags…I’ll be on this off and on for a day or two!
Iโve just updated my Now page.
The vegetable garden is looking a bit sparse at the moment, at least compared with how it has looked. Still plenty growing though. We have added three more boxes. One contains just flowers. There are tomatoes, peppers, carrots, arugula, broccoli, kale, mint, basil in there. That’s actually quite a lot!
Adapting to Transitions
Monday, August 26, 2019
Early summer this year was a time for travel. Family travel. Across the continental US to a family wedding and then across the Atlantic to visit with my parents. From there I turned around and headed back West to meet my wife on the US West Coast for a couple of days of r’n’r in West Marin, before finally crossing the Pacific again back to Maui. Introducing transitions I’ve mused on my micro.
Listening to The Lark Ascending, by Ralph Vaughan Williams. Such a beautiful piece of music, and so evocative of the British summer and the bird after which it is named. It carries me back home. ๐ต
I’ve found it! The version of Bridge Over Troubled Water that Paul Simon played here on Maui. He introduced it by saying that after writing it when he was 28, sharing it with many artists, he was now taking it back. Beautiful.
I got some writing done today. That felt good.
Is there a race on?
Five and a half hours standing in a hot storage room while working today. Lying on my bed feels like the right thing to do right now! ๐๏ธ
An Evening with Paul Simon
Thursday, August 15, 2019
Yesterday I spent a wonderful evening at the Maui Arts and Cultural Center at Paul Simon’s second of two shows on the island. Although officially retired from touring, Simon shared that the concerts were a “thank you” to the island now that he lives here. All profits from the shows are going to two Hawaiian environmental projects - Auwahi Forest Restoration Project and Kuaโฤina Ulu โAuamo (KUA). What to say about the concert?
Beware of hiding yellow jackets
Thursday, August 15, 2019
My face looks as though I have had half a dozen fillings. Yesterday while outside working on something in the garden which I am now told want work - grumble, grumble, but that’s another story - I was stung by a yellow jacket. For now it is mildly uncomfortable and looks as though I’ve out on weight in my face. My wife says that my face looks like Joe from Family Guy!