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😋 Oh simple joys. I just found a jar of Marmite at the back of the cupboard. Marmite can no longer be found here on Maui, and I have not ordered any in a while. I’m now looking forward to breakfast tomorrow. ⚘
I need this song today as it is anything but how I feel. It helps to lift me.
Pharrell Williams - Happy (Official Video)
I seem to be falling a day behind the last couple of days. This is yesterday morning’s rainbow. There were none this morning, so hopefully I am caught up now. 🌈️
Yesterday morning’s rainbow 🌈
A quiet beach on Maui’s north shore, strewn with tree stumps and the West Maui Mountains (Mauna Kahālāwai) in the background.
I caught a rainbow hiding out amongst the clouds yesterday morning. 🌈
🌕 Looking out over a ghostly lit landscape as the Super Moon casts its eerie light across the land tonight. ⚘
The Story Behind the Photograph: Some Faces
No matter where I have traveled, it is the people that I have met and seen along the way that have made the journey. Yes, I have gazed out onto scenery that has moved me and stayed with me long after I have travelled onto new vistas. Yes, I have gone searching for solitude in nature, away from the busyness of everyday life and the concrete jungles of our modern cities.
😕️ Some days I seem to be able to get things done with clarity and all the time in the world. Other days I feel as though I am stuck in treacle, every job feels hard and difficult, and little appears to get done. Today I am having both days in one! ⚘
A faint, partial rainbow this morning. 🌈️
The trees across the valley from us lit by the rising sun, the light on them contrasting strongly against the dark storm clouds behind them.
Finished reading: Train Dreams by Denis Johnson. I didn’t know what to expect, picking up the book when I learnt that the new Netflix film, which I haven’t seen, was based on a book.
On one level a simple story of a man’s life, but also as I read it of his connection to the natural world around him. I look forward to seeing how the book was interpreted for the film. 📚
On Migraines
I have just gone searching back through my blog. It seems that I have written about migraines on a number of occasions. There is probably a reason for that - I get migraines with irregular frequency. I have another migraine right now. This migraine has come two weeks after the last one cleared, and that one lasted four days. I have no idea what caused this one. In fact I don’t have any idea what have caused any of the migraines that I have had since I was in my mid-teens.
Two days after Thanksgiving, the dinner leftovers all thrown in together into a pan and heated up look like goop, but taste ssssoooooo good. Dare I say better than on Thursday when they were presented beautifully with care and attention?
🌊 We live about 1½ miles from the ocean. You know when the swell is big when two things happen.
- The surf can be heard breaking against the cliffs…1½ miles away.
- The ocean looks corrugated, as the waves make their way in to the Maui shore…seen from 1½ miles away.
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📻️ Those times when I arrive home but do not get out of the car as I am listening to something on the radio and don’t want to miss where it is going. This time The Moth Radio Hour on HPR1. ⚘
A Cardinal on the beach yesterday. I tried to also tried to catch a photograph of a Common Sandpiper (Hawaiian: Ōpae ʻula) that was searching for small crabs to eat, but it was moving too quickly.
Still morning
Quiet;
A resting for the soul.
Sun
Bird song
No wind
No noise save the ringing in one’s head.
Let this stillness take you;
Don’t go looking for distractions;
The quiet that this morning offers will be gone soon enough.
Take it,
let it touch your heart -
and find that stillness there at any time.
🥶 That emoji might be a little extreme for the temperatures here on Maui, at least close to sea level, but the morning air has got a lot more chilly in the last few weeks. I for one like these cool, fresh mornings. It balances the days and means that I’m not constantly looking for shade or a place to cool off. Days are still warm, 76°F/26°C, before dropping off again as the sun goes down. ⚘
This is writing,
The best part of any big Thanksgiving gathering? Slipping away from it for a few minutes to stand outside in the cold.
🛖 With the ”Holidays” now officially upon us, at least here in the US, for the next month if I am wanted I can be found in a remote hut somewhere on the side of a mountain. ⚘