Heading back to Maui today. I’ll be sorry to leave this little cabin.
The best television - watching a fire burning in the hearth.
An evening fire.
Finished reading: English Pastoral by James Rebanks. What a beautiful and important book, born from love. 📚
He is one of the elders of our community, a man of good sense, from the same forge as my father.
― James Rebanks, English Pastoral
I brought a small speaker with me so that we could listen to relaxing music, but I won’t be using it. The music here is the silence, the wind, occasional rain showers and the birds.
The rustic nature of the cabin that we are staying in for a couple of nights.
Blessed with an opportunity to stay in a remote cabin in Nanakuli Forest Reserve on Oahu, built by architect Valdimir Ossipoff. Sunset from the cabin this evening.
A moment of silence in the middle of a busy morning.
The second hole is dug and the hatch revealed. Tomorrow the tank is cleaned and pumped.
Our septic tank sits under the front lawn. Today I uncovered one if it’s hatches, carefully saving the sections of lawn to put back in place once the tank is emptied. The second hatch, which I found and marked out at the end of the day, I’ll probably dig out tomorrow.
Occasionally something pulls me to reach for a book that I have not opened for a number of years. A couple of days ago that book was Dewdrops On A Lotus Leaf, Zen Poems of Ryokan. I feel like I am revisiting an old friend, and asking, “Why was I not in touch earlier?” 📚
I watched Dune on HBO Max last night and enjoyed it. I loved being taken into another world, another time and place. It left me wanting more, to explore the story further. I never finished the book when I tried it many years ago, and now might give it a second chance.
This morning’s rainbow 🌈
Yesterday I bought a ZAGG Messenger Folio keyboard for my 5th generation iPad. The keys feel and sound a little ”springy”, but right now that is a minor complaint over having to use the on screen keyboard. At the moment I feel happy at the sense of new found freedom that I have for mobile computing.
I have been a late arrival to the iPad world. The only reason that I own one is that they were almost being given away a few years back when I bought a new iPhone. I have used this iPad, but not extensively and probably mainly to watch streaming services. There have been times though when I have had my iPad with me and I have wanted to do some longer form writing. I have managed with the on screen keyboard but was never happy with it.
Recently while back in the UK I set my mother up with an iPad and Magic Keyboard. The decision to adopt this setup was informed by supply issues from Apple’s side, and the time that I had to get the new system installed and my mother familiar with it. During the time that I was helping mum get aquatinted with the new iPad and keyboard I came to appreciate the iOS platform more, seeing potential in it beyond augmenting my desktop life and running my iPhone. I saw the possibility of it becoming my main computing platform. I am not there yet, but was sufficiently won over to more seriously think about a keyboard for my iPad, a stepping stone to maybe iOS full time. Yesterday was the day.
The ZAGG is no Magic Keyboard, but for my current usage it does not need to be. I simply wanted a competent keyboard that will allow me to more easily and more comfortably use the iPad, especially while on the move. While my main machine (read, ’my desktop’) is a MacBook Air, for some reason the iPad feels more like a portable machine. I look forward to experiencing what this new setup opens up for me.
Noticing my mind settle
As jobs awaiting my return
Are completed.
Happy faces as myself and three good friends finished an 11.2 mile hike across Haleakala crater, at the Halemau’u Trailhead, earlier this year. (Micro.blog October photo challenge, Day 18)
The map on this screen was my compass, and helped me see where we were as I headed back across the Atlantic a couple of weeks ago.
This wheel is not going very far. (Micro.blog October photo challenge, Day 14)
Dog vs Crab standoff. Animals (Micro.blog October photo challenge, Day 13)
