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. 🌈️
🌊 Stepping outside this morning, pre dawn and the world illuminated by the full moon, I could hear the distant roar of waves. I love that sound and feeling the power of the ocean even from so far inland. Winter is here. The waves have returned to the North Shore of Maui. ⚘
On dialogue…
(Nostra aetate) opened our eyes to a simple yet profound principle: dialogue is not a tactic or a tool, but it’s a way of life – a journey of the heart that transforms everyone involved, the one who listens and the one who speaks.
~ Pope Leo XIV
Things Change
I’m returning here to the subject of RSS Readers mainly because I wrote about them a year ago here and here and I feel as though those posts are now misleading of the the landscape that I now reside in. Not completely, but some clarification could be needed…should you be interested!
🫣️ Sometimes I sit feeling safe because I am not putting myself out into a situation and so not opening myself to criticism - and of course the flip side of that, praise or maybe simply indifference. However that safe place can in time become hiding place, a place that handicaps me by disabling trust in myself. Today I celebrate putting myself out there, for being vulnerable. ⚘
📝 I used Apple’s TextEdit app this morning for saving some text documents that I didn’t want in Markdown or in a heavier duty text processing app…and it worked just fine for my usage. I’ve hardly ever used TextEdit as I’ve moved through versions of MacOS over the years, and I don’t know why? My tendency to look to third party apps, really. While I like to support third party developers, this is being written on Drafts, I feel as though I should really look to see what is sitting on the machine that I have sitting right in front of me. What I need might already be there. ⚘
There were a number of rainbows this morning. They all formed in pretty much the same area of sky and so instead of showing the whole gamut of rainbows that appeared, I am going with the first one that I saw as I stepped outside this morning….and I didn’t get many photos of the others anyway 😏 🌈
Finished reading: The Premonition by Banana Yoshimoto. 📚
I’ve read a few books by Banana Yoshimoto, and this one I enjoyed the most. The others, The Kitchen was one, maybe Goodbye Tsugumi, I found more difficult. Perhaps I should return to them sometime and give them another go?
Changing things up a bit. A black and white photograph of a rainbow, along with the moon yesterday evening. 🌈
The local cockerels greeting a new day (you’ll probably need to turn up the volume).
Yes there were rainbows today. 🌈
This one from this morning:
And this one from this afternoon:
