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. 🌈
Guest Post
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. ⚘
On Needles and Healing
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.
The wet and windy weather continues and with it the rainbows. Here is this morning’s. 🌈
Pete Townsend on The Late Show
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. ⚘
A Collection of Words, Gathering Thoughts
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.
🤕 I’ve been getting migraines since I was in my mid-teens - wow, that’s pushing 50 years. They have varied over the years in their frequency, how they show up, and their intensity. At the moment there is no certainty when they will appear, the last one might have been six months ago (I don’t keep track).
This afternoon, while working, a migraine decided to move in. At first it felt mild, but as the evening has moved on the pain has increased. For now it is keeping me from sleeping. I’m trying to tire myself by reading. ⚘
🤫 Just sitting in silence. I find it so restorative. ⚘
Yesterday morning’s briefly visible rainbow. I’m sure that there were many more as the day was very wet, but I was attending an event and did not get to see them. 🌈
🥀 It is Sunday evening and I am exhausted. The weekend has been long and busy, as well as being an emotional roller coaster. The introvert in me is running on a battery that is close to empty battery. I’ll be looking forward to turning the light out tonight, and hope that the week ahead offers me some respite. ⚘
🍂 OK so the leaves aren’t changing colour here, but stepping outside this morning the air was beautifully cool and sharp. The weather will warm up as the day goes on, though we do have a front coming through the islands this weekend bringing rain. This time of year - autumn through to winter - is the time of year that I enjoy most here in Hawaii. For the cooler temperatures, the variety of weather and for the waves returning to Maui’s north shore - even though I do not surf, I do enjoy watching the ocean’s moods and feeling its power. ⚘
🥴 I can’t focus this morning. There are things on my mind and things that I need and want to do, and they are all fighting for my attention. No one is winning and nothing is getting done. My mind is not a fog, I can see clearly. More I am slipping and sliding, and deep down possibly avoiding as well? ⚘
This morning’s rainbow. It appeared gradually this morning. At first teasing, a faint colour in the sky hinting that a rainbow was there and yet maybe it wasn’t. Slowly the colours deepened and the arc of the rainbow grew, starting on the right and steadily reaching across the sky to what you see in the photograph. 🌈️
