🌃 6:10pm and I am in my pyjamas. Well I am home, eaten, showered, I'm not going out anywhere for the rest of the evening....so I figured that I might as well get ready for bed (though I'm not going there quite yet).
I’ll celebrate this.
Finished reading: Soul Writing by Claire de Boer 📚
This morning’s rainbow 🌈
A self seeding fern growing out of fence post.
There is still a week and a half to go before September ends, and this is the site that greeted me when I walk into Lowe’s this afternoon. One of those big figures was singing Christmas songs. Meanwhile outside the sun beat down with late summer heat.
Words escape me.
Crazy Wisdom
I have found copies of old blog posts on my computer from an earlier incarnation of my website. This one was from I know not when, but will guess around 2010. I have edited the post lightly to provide link references and clarification where appropriate. While in New York last week for Thanksgiving and a host of other family events I visited the wonderful Rubin Museum (which sadly on October 6th, 2024 will close and move to a “global museum model.
My 61st birthday today. I have just learnt that it is my cousin’s daughter’s 21st birthday today. That 40 year gap makes me feel old! The opportunities of youth, the perspective and learnt lessons (though probably a few more to learn!) of later years.
Watching my grandson playing football (soccer) last Saturday morning. His team won 3 - 1. I was sitting to the left where there are a crowd of people on the touchline, but the sun was brutally hot and I had to take shelter under the shade of a tree. Those tent structures were all accounted for!
Another game this Saturday.
Homemade egg pasta drying.
I’m late to the game here. We started watching Slow Horses on Monday evening, and are now 4 episodes in. I now see what I have been missing. The positive side? I have three and a half seasons to go. 🕵️♂️
A thread on Mastodon made me go looking to see if website for the old Camino browser. Indeed it is. Camino use to be my go to browser. A blog post announcing the end of its development was published on Thursday, May 30th, 2013. I remember Camino fondly. It was sad to see development end.
I was driving home yesterday and found myself in a long line of traffic. I live not far off the Hana Highway here in Maui. This road turns into the Road to Hana, a journey which for very good reason, for its beauty and culture, attracts a lot of visitors each year. Morning time can find the road busier with cars heading out towards Hana, and evening can find the road busy with cars returning, the numbers varying as the holiday seasons come and go.
While moving slower than usual along the highway, locals turning off on the side roads as we headed east, I found myself wondering what this journey was like for those visitors who were driving the road for the first time? I regularly drive this section of road, I know what comes next, what there is to see, how long it will take to get from A to B. For visitors though, each turn in the road offers a new site, buildings and homes will be seen for the first time, what is around the next corner or over the next hill? Indeed even, in my complacency of knowing the road well, what do visitors see that I miss?
Well this is obviously a thought that has stuck with me for a long time. I initially wrote about it over four years ago, saying,
Sometimes when I am driving home, following a car containing a family or persons visiting Maui, I wonder how they are seeing the road and its surrounding scenery? For them, each bend in the road will be revealing a vista that they have not seen before. Views that for me I see pretty much every day, will be a first occurrence for them.
I guess that there is something in this dialogue that for me has some meaning? Perhaps it is around the subject and state of awareness? How present can I be to what is around me, even when what is around me is very familiar?
Be careful if you are up a ladder. I was topping the hedge this morning. I don’t think that I was doing anything irresponsible, but I almost fell backwards twice. Be careful.
Well the updating has commenced. Apple TV and my iPhone are on their way, downloading their respective OSs as I type. I’ll do my watch later.
I am a little on the fence about my MacBook Air at the moment. It’s a 13-inch 2020 and has finally made it to the bottom of the list for Airs that are compatible with the new OS. I suspect that with the next iteration of MacOS, the Air either won’t be on the list, or will be holding on by its finger nails. In the past when I have taken computers this far with OS updates, it has resulted in sluggish performance at times. My curiosity is piqued though by Apples new password manager. I would like to give it a go.
Knowing me, by this time tomorrow MacOS Sequoia will be installed on my Air.
😶🌫️ It’s a misty, wet and muggy night out there. I didn’t expect this end to the day. Good night everyone.
😶🌫️ It’s a misty, wet and muggy night out there. I didn’t expect this end to the day. Good night everyone.
This evening’s rainbow with a Plumeria tree in the foreground (and experimenting with Halide app’s Process Zero). 🌈
A STOP sign decorated in stickers.
We are fortunate enough to have A/C in our house…until we don’t. The split screen system decided to break down last week, and now the hot muggy weather from outside has made its way inside. Aside from keeping the inside cool and in my opinion more livable, the A/C also keeps the dampness and build up of mold at bay. Humidity is a reality here on Maui, especially on the wetter northern shore of the island.