03-26-2010, 01:58 AM
OMG! We live in one of the most enchanting places and each moment of each day here is its own unique adventure. From the walk down the street at dawn when the sky is every shade of purple and the sun's rays are artistically brushed behind the clouds, reflecting gold inside the droplets of water just hanging atop each blade of grass; to the drive up Hamakua through the blue spruce grove on a cloudy, misty, wintery day where the moisture has collected on top of the pine needles so profusely it transforms the blue spruce tree to post card vision of Christmas with silver dusting. Or, who hasn't enjoyed sitting at the ocean's edge at sun down while the reflection of the setting sun is like gold foil dancing or crinkling in the soft, slow lap of the waves to the shoreline. Who hasn't driven into town and had their eyes and whole being locked onto Mauna Kea's snow covered summit and felt awestruck at its mere presence.
I treasure memories we have filed in our mind of times of travel around this island with friends and family and have encountered extraordinary experiences. A few years back..we had visitors and were rounding a bend on red road and came upon a small collection of whales who were heading back out to sea. We saw them, got out of our cars and were 'oooooooooing' and 'ahhhhhhhhhhhhhing' them and one of them came back and did some spouting, jumping out of the water, and when he tired of us departed with a rear end fin salute! Waving bye bye to us. We all stood there dumbfounded at what we'd just been privileged to encounter. When we go for a day without noticing the beauty we have a nice collections of memories that we can imbibe.
As a people, we cannot help but be affected, if superficially, by issues and others and sometimes it distracts us from the beauty that surrounds us. That is when our mind hits our pillow and works...at that time when we are hanging up all our mental clothes, stashing all our emotion coping tools, making sure our spiritual self is sound, that we lay our physical bodies down to recuperate and travel up into our minds to remember and be grateful for the manifold good that has visited us that day. Taking inventory of the places, things and people that have intersected with our lives and evaluating whether each intersection or interaction was the best; smiling at the 'I could have said this' as we amuse ourselves with latent wit. Then the cat reaches out with her claws and slaps at the fingers dangling over the edge of the bed because her day just began! The last beautiful moment before we slumber. Life is good.
“A penny saved is a government oversight.”
I treasure memories we have filed in our mind of times of travel around this island with friends and family and have encountered extraordinary experiences. A few years back..we had visitors and were rounding a bend on red road and came upon a small collection of whales who were heading back out to sea. We saw them, got out of our cars and were 'oooooooooing' and 'ahhhhhhhhhhhhhing' them and one of them came back and did some spouting, jumping out of the water, and when he tired of us departed with a rear end fin salute! Waving bye bye to us. We all stood there dumbfounded at what we'd just been privileged to encounter. When we go for a day without noticing the beauty we have a nice collections of memories that we can imbibe.
As a people, we cannot help but be affected, if superficially, by issues and others and sometimes it distracts us from the beauty that surrounds us. That is when our mind hits our pillow and works...at that time when we are hanging up all our mental clothes, stashing all our emotion coping tools, making sure our spiritual self is sound, that we lay our physical bodies down to recuperate and travel up into our minds to remember and be grateful for the manifold good that has visited us that day. Taking inventory of the places, things and people that have intersected with our lives and evaluating whether each intersection or interaction was the best; smiling at the 'I could have said this' as we amuse ourselves with latent wit. Then the cat reaches out with her claws and slaps at the fingers dangling over the edge of the bed because her day just began! The last beautiful moment before we slumber. Life is good.
“A penny saved is a government oversight.”
"Q might have done the right thing for the wrong reason, perhaps we need a good kick in our complacency to get us ready for what's ahead" -- Captain Picard, to Guinan (Q Who?)