😖 Waking this morning, back home, with what I will call a Travel Hangover, that feeling I get after returning from time away involving a lot of travel. However, this was just an overnight trip to the island of Oahu with some friends, to support my wife’s son in an event that he was hosting.
Maybe it was that we were on the go for most of our time away? Or maybe it was simply having to navigate airports even though the flight was a quick hop, skip and a jump from Maui?
Whatever the cause, today will be spent landing back here on Maui. ⚘
This morning’s double rainbow. 🌈
Looking out at Diamond Head, Honolulu.
Rainbow over the hills above Honolulu this afternoon. 🌈
🌆 I’m not a city person, but I notice and enjoy the stimulation that I get from visits to the big city.
In Hawaii’s big city, Honolulu. ⚘
🌧️ The microclimates of Maui. We have woken up to low cloud, wind and torrential rain. I was in touch with a friend earlier who lives on the other side of the mountain, Haleakala, and he said that there is not a drop of rain there. ⚘
A rainbow, in fact a double rainbow from mid morning yesterday. 🌈️
😫️ Struggling. Struggling emotionally for a lot of today. I could see myself in there, but could not find a way out. The later part of the day offered me some space where I could catch on some sleep and tasks that needed to be done. Now I feel fresher and more in control of myself.
A learning from this might have been to stop and create some space for myself. Perhaps to have taken a walk earlier, once an essential job was taken care of. ⚘
A rainbow seen at Ho’okipa Beach Park early afternoon today. By the time that I drove away a little later a second rainbow was visible above this one, and the colours of this rainbow appeared deeper against dark grey storm clouds. 🌈
I was sitting writing a post yesterday when one of my grandson’s showed up. He asked if he could do some typing - I was using the portable keyboard that bought for my iPhone a year ago. So I passed the keyboard over to him and he started running his fingers across the keyboard.
Here’s a section of what he wrote. If you look carefully you can see his name.
I watched this rainbow morph in shape and size this morning. 🌈
🦶 My wife and I are looking after the grandkids this weekend while their parents are away. Last night I slept in bed with one of them and received an unceremonious kick in the middle of the night as he turned over. I woke up very quickly. ⚘
🌞 Awoke to a clear sunny day. And it has that stillness that a weekend morning can bring. A nippy chill as well.
You know, after all the wind and rain of this last week, despite that weather being so welcome after the drought conditions of the last couple of months, this morning feels like a breather, a rest and is welcome in itself. ⚘
Earlier this morning I was driving to the local recycling center and could see through the trees, a rainbow arching across the sky. By the time that I had arrived and parked up, it had diminished in size but was still there. 🌈
🌬️️ Famine or Feast. That appears to be our weather at the moment. Two weeks ago I was writing about drought like conditions, Stage 3 water restrictions, yellow straw like grass, and bushes and trees visibly struggling. Now we have strong winds and heavy downpours. I’ll take it. In fact I like it. A familiar autumnal feeling. Even the temperature is down.
The water restrictions have now be lessened to Stage 1, at least in this part of the island. The microclimates are such here in Maui that some areas are not so lucky. Here’s hoping that as we drop into winter some wet weather can be dumped across the whole island. ⚘
The migraine might not have gone, but acupuncture worked wonders yesterday. I felt like a pin cushion as I lay on the therapy table. Some of the needles were for the migraine, others for other disparate murmurings that my acupuncturist could detect in my pulses.
Needles were placed in my ear. These were for the migraine I was told. When one went in I almost left the table. With an apology, my acupuncturist rarely hits a point that hurts that much, he tried again.
I just watched this interview with Pete Townsend by Steven Colbert on The Late Show. I was watching something unrelated on YouTube, noticed this interview in the list of videos to the right and decided to click on it. I honestly didn’t expect to get very far with it, I’m on my way to bed, but I found the conversation fascinating.
Pete Townsend is 80 years old, he says so in the interview, and just has so much to share from his 50 years in the music business…and life.
I watched this rainbow, these rainbows form this morning. In fact I took photos at different stages thinking, “That’s it, it’ll fade soon,” and then this double rainbow emerged. 🌈
⚕️️ If I am up for driving there, I am having some acupuncture today to help with the migraine. I have not had needles for acupuncture before, not least because the two have not occurred together. I just happen to have an appointment today, and so hoping that it can help. ⚘
I don’t know where this post will go? I am writing with a migraine. My head is telling me to rest, to get away from the screen. However it is raining outside, no one is around and I had a full and emotional weekend and feel that I want to just get some words out. I have ideas of what those words might cover and those ideas are all vying for my attention so I don’t think any one subject will arise front and center, and some will probably not even make an appearance here. It’s almost as though I have to get the mess out before anything else can make its presence felt.
