🥱 Some days I just can't seem to shake tiredness out of my body.
🥱 Some days I just can't seem to shake tiredness out of my body.
👨🌾 Tired after an afternoon in the garden.
👨🌾 Tired after an afternoon in the garden.
Wednesday, November 30, 2022 →
🤫 All is quiet and still.
Wednesday, November 30, 2022 →
🤫 All is quiet and still.
November 2022 newsletter letter
Wednesday, November 30, 2022
November 2022 Hello and welcome to the November 2022 edition of my newsletter. I write this sitting outside at dusk. I look out on the shadows of the night, as lights from distant houses break the darkness. It’s still. Very still. The wind of last week, and that which helps to keep these islands cool, has blown itself out. I sit listening to the crickets, to a distant dog bark, occasional traffic on the nearby highway (a two lane road running the length of Maui’s north east shore).
Just follow the instruction
Tuesday, November 29, 2022
I’ve written about this before in relation to meditation, and it has been prominent in my mind again. As such I felt like reflecting on what the message is that accompanies this instruction at this time. Goals With any given meditation instruction I find it is very easy to imagine where I should be on the completion of such practice - that is if completion is a thing with regard to meditation.
My mother kept all the letters and cards that I sent to her from my travels over the years. Now she has passed them onto me.
Maybe there is a story in there?
A visitor this morning.
A misty evening.
Today has felt like a winter’s day in Britain. Constant drizzle, low hanging misty cloud, and now thunder. The only difference? Although there is a definite drop in temperature, winter has arrived here in Maui, I have been walking around in shorts and a t-shirt.
📻 Listening to Classic FM while working - UK in Hawaii.
📻 Listening to Classic FM while working - UK in Hawaii.
🏖 Beach day.
🏖 Beach day.
Strangers on the Road in Portugal
Sunday, November 27, 2022
I am ready to share this story now. I have cooled down. Actually I cooled down once we were back at our B&B, but it has just taken me a while to get this story written down. My wife and I were in the small town of Alcácer do Sal in Portugal a couple of months ago (more on the reason behind that later, in another post). The town is situated on the river Sado about fifty minutes drive south of Lisbon.
And while I am speaking of what we watched last night, a week or so ago we also watched Sydney, about the life of Sydney Poitier. I knew next to nothing about him and found the documentary fascinating. Filmed before Poitier died earlier this year, one is treated to his lovely voice narrating his own story. 🍿
We watched Official Competition last night. An art house film and comedy. Very well acted by the small cast. I just wish that I spoke Spanish so that I didn’t have to rely on the subtitles. 🍿
Well the high surf warning from the last couple of days has now been extended through to Sunday morning. Not much surfing will be happening as these large waves are causing the ocean to be a frothy wash.