🫠 Having a slow morning. Our wonderful family guests left yesterday and today feels like a day of rest and catching up on a few things that need doing.
Especially for @jean and @Miraz. Waves this morning from the cliffs near to Ho’okipa Beach.
🤕 My grandson was firing a water gun (UK: water pistol) last night. In an attempt to get away I quickly turned and walked straight into a glass door. My head is still feeling it this morning. Ouch!
Wednesday, February 28, 2024 →
The Clean Up Crew - a flock of white egrets chasing the mower as the grass is cut.
The Wall that Heals
Wednesday, February 28, 2024
A little over two weeks ago The Wall that Heals, a touring replica of the Vietnam Wall Memorial hosted by the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, arrived in Maui. It was here for five days, and I went to visit it the day before it left. I saw the actual Memorial in Washington DC almost forty years ago, and although then I knew no one connected with the war and indeed little about the war, I found the Wall very moving.
A table outside set for dinner last night, with friends having just arrived from out of State. Although a fire was lit in the fire pit and chairs set around it, a stormy evening dissuaded anyone (apart from myself) from hanging out around it.
Well that was an unintended and interesting experiment today. In getting ready to take our visitors out today I left my phone at home. I realized that I didn’t have it with me on our first stop. For the most part I did not miss it, in fact I noticed that my biggest concern was that it was indeed at home and not dropped and so lost somewhere (I had a leather version of Apple’s Wallet attached to the phone’s back, and so there was an added concern of the cards in the wallet). But at times I did notice a niggle, an itch for my phone. I also notice now the sense of relief and comfort at having it back in my orbit.
I have intentionally left my phone behind before, but I rarely have I forgotten it. In this day an age of awareness around people’s reliance and attachment to their phone, I was interested in just how I reacted to having unintentionally left it behind.
🚗 We have family visiting for a week and so we’re heading out today to show them some of the island.
This small island is full of microclimates. Overcast and wet here, sun where we are heading.
Well I’m having another break/halt on progress with the Watch to 5K program that I am following. The cause this time is a migraine. I have been getting them for many years, forty five to be exact, though of late their frequency has diminished. Still when I do get them they last for three days and doing something strenuous like running is just too uncomfortable. Hoping to be back out there again soon.
☕ Trying a third cup of coffee this morning as a remedy against this migraine that I have been nurturing since yesterday.
😔 I didn’t want to get out of bed this morning. It was warm and comfortable. That was as unusual for me, as I am not normally one to lie around in bed. I am feeling a little bleh as well, which surely contributed towards me not wanting to move.
This afternoon’s rainbow, with a second very faint one just above it. 🌈
Another Watch to 5K run under my belt, ending my second run through (pun not intended) of the second week. I felt a little stiff to start off, and was careful to pace myself better this time. By the end I had not quite run as far as last time, but felt better in myself.
How I'm Capturing the Photographs for the Travel Stories
Thursday, February 22, 2024
A slide being projected onto a wall in a darkened room. When I set off on my travels in the mid 1980’s, I took a SLR camera with me. From my memory I had two lenses, a 35mm and a zoom lens the size of which I cannot remember. I believe that I also had a couple of filters with me. I did not know a lot about photography, though had been reading a little on the subject, and wanted to take the best photos that I could to remember and give me a flavour of my time away.
Wednesday, February 21, 2024 →
I headed out on my Watch to 5K program this morning. With me repeating earlier weeks due to my time off from having a cold, I was running easier, I noticed that. Though if there is something that I learnt today, it is to better pace myself. I think that I went off too fast on the earlier runs and felt it, and ran at a slightly slower pace on the later runs.
Wednesday, February 21, 2024 →
iA have just updated the iA Writer beta to 7.1. This update includes a major overhaul of Writer’s integration with Apple Shortcuts bringing with it 18 new actions. iA provide some example Shortcuts to demonstrate what can be achieved now.
As my main writing app alongside Drafts, I welcome this addition and exploring how I might use it.
The Story Behind the Photograph: From the Roof of a Bus
Tuesday, February 20, 2024
Road from Gaya to Bodhgaya from the roof of a bus Following my time in Patna, I continued my journey onto Bodhgaya by catching a train to the city of Gaya. I travelled to Gaya by train along with an American, Ray, whom I had met in Patna. I had an omelette for breakfast in my hotel room, settled up with the hotel owner and then caught a rickshaw along with Ray to the railway station.
I’ve been experimenting with NetNewsWire’s iCloud service. Thanks to the RSS feed that Micro.blog offers for its Bookmarks feature, I have set myself up with a read it later service in within NetNewsWire. I hope that I don’t over use it as I have a tendency to not read articles later, but all the same, it is nice to have this feature.
Alongside that, I have set up an Apple Shortcut so that if there is a feed elsewhere in NetNewsWire that I want to read later, I can add it to my Micro.blog Bookmarks.
What fun. Now I feel clever!
It has been a week and a half since I last completed a run for the Watch to 5K program that I am following. I’ve had a cold that has lingered, has sapped my strength and made me feel like doing anything but run. Although not quite there in terms of healing, I felt that I was well enough today to run and so put on my running shoes and headed out.
When I last went out I had just finished week 3. However, with the week and a half break behind me I decided to go back to the start of week 2. Maybe the start of week 3 would have been a good place to restart, but I didn’t find that an easy week, and was not comfortable that week 3 would be an easy place to start running again, especially as I am still early on in the program. I want to enjoy this, not make it an endurance test.
So week 2 it was, and I felt that I handled it well. Despite the gusty wind, the running felt easier and stronger than the first time that I went through that week, and so I am going to chalk that up to progress being made. That has given me encouragement, and I now I am looking forward to getting back into my running routine again.
📅 This has been a strange weekend for me. The grandkids were off school on Friday and I kept thinking that it was Saturday.
On Saturday I couldn’t get it out of my head that it was Sunday, and then today I wanted it to be Monday.
With tomorrow being a public holiday here in the US, Presidents Day, I’m wondering what day I will wake up to?!