Rain during the night, sun during the day. That’s a good combination, ensuring that the ground gets watered and we have a warm, bright day. And then there are times when I just enjoy it being overcast for a day. There is plenty of sun here in Hawai’i, for which I am grateful, but I also enjoy hunkering down on a wet day.
We watched French Exit a couple of nights ago, staring Michelle Pfeiffer and Lucas Hedges. Categorized as a comedy and drama, outside of that I found it hard to pigeon hole. Quirky, different, it held my attention and I would recommend it. 🍿
On both days of Micro Camp, before the presentations start, I will be leading a short meditation to help you quieten your mind and prepare for the day ahead. Just show up 15 minutes before the program for the days start. No experience is necessary to join the meditation. I have kept the instruction to a minimum in order to maximize the time that we have for meditation, so if you do come away with any questions, please contact me.
Just arrived from my favourite coffee shop. Sterling Coffee Roasters use to be our local coffee shop when we lived in Portland.
📍 Sterling Coffee Roasters, Portland
As I record my video, try and record it, for next week’s Micro Camp, I am thinking that it would be funny to see a video of outtakes - I say that assuming that I am not the only one making a few false starts!
Searching a cupboard for some honey, I came across this jar of Marmite. Joy! I haven’t had any for a long time. I know what breakfast will include tomorrow.
My five year old grandson was listening to family members instruct Siri to play this song or that song on our HomePod Mini. So in his five year old English he piped up with, “Hey Siri, play the Poop Song.” Siri understood him and while I expected her to say that she couldn’t find such a song, it turns out that there is a Poop Song on Apple Music, and so she obliged with playing it!
Sitting alone at night, silence, small light on in the corner, stillness, dark outside, alone with a book, my thoughts, writing. Walking across the crater floor of Haleakala. Bare, cinder cones, dried lava. The birth place of Maui. Sitting chanting Puja in the Shrine Room of Lam Rim Buddhist Centre. Pre-dawn, faint light in the sky, bird song slowly starting, a day awakening. Sitting around a fire, dinner finished, feeding wood to the glowing embers, wood smoke infusing our clothes.
The trade winds having being blowing very strong over the last couple of days, and an evening stroll along Baldwin Beach was a real challenge yesterday evening. Sand blasted there and back. Winded on the way back. This guy seemed unperturbed by the weather, dozing soundly on the shoreline. 📍 Baldwin Beach Park, Paia
This morning’s harvest. It had just fallen from the tree.
I watched Disney’s The Jungle Book with my grandsons last night. It is a real favourite of mine. I don’t know how many times I have seen the movie, going back to when I was a kid? I also used to own a 33⅓ record of the soundtrack that came packed in a colourful booklet. The record came out around the time of the film, 1967, and I remember its weight - heavy.
Hey, is there any blue sky up there?! We’ve had a lot of rain recently. I got soaking wet yesterday working outside. We need to go and look for the sun. 🌞
Morning view.
We watched Tampopo last night, a very unusual Japanese comedy, which when it came out was referred to as a “Ramen western”. I think that we stuck through the whole movie just because it was unusual. What would happen next? 🍿
I’ve just been reading the lyrics to This Is Not America by David Bowie & Pat Metheny. It’s a song that I love, but the first time that I have read the lyrics, 🤦🏼♂️, and I cannot work out what they mean? 🤨
There’s nothing like walking on grass with bare feet to awaken the senses.
Well the tent that I put up a couple of days ago has been a great success with my grandson. He has slept in it every night with his dad. Last night it rained and he slept through it all. Tonight will be his third night.
I just discovered that Firefox has an eyedropper tool. How helpful!
I spent a few hours this morning, under baking hot sun, putting this tent up for my grandson. Now it’s up, the tent’s construction looks quite simple. However, it was heavy and had very poor instructions. I ended up resorting to YouTube for a clearer understanding of the what and how it went together. I have now handed over to grandma to furnish the inside.
Why not just write? Not because there is anything necessary to say, or maybe there is, but you can’t see it clearly now, and so just write. See what emerges from the explorations, from the scribbles, from the typing. Just write.
I say this as a reminder to self.