12-17-2013, 07:28 PM
Aloha, reni,
Mahalo nui for your kind words. No. I have only been here 2 years but it was love at first sight and I do feel like it has been one poem after another since first I saw Hawai'i. It has always moved right through me and out the other side in a way that is exquisite and painful.
I do miss my girl very much and it is kind of you to mention her memorial. That came about quickly and straight from the heart as the best expressions do. I will replace her memorial with a pink vireya when the time is right. I miss her feminine presence very much but have been distracted since her death in a way that it is very merciful.
As for the sheep, now that I think of it, I had one in a car, too. I had been working in a airplane part factory and got "kissing disease" or mononucleosis (scandalous at the time!. I was young but got so sick I had to move in with parents again. They lived on a farm in a rural area of California. I loved it there and loved being taken care of by my parents. I got into the farming life and found myself at an livestock auction. I bought a sheep and put him in my mom's Buick and drove back to the farm. His name was Bernie. He had lots of character.
Still, although cars do transport sheep, I have to agree with csgray that in the aggregate you see more odd things like that here than most other places and all of that contributes to that sense of irreality.
I have never lived in a place where I felt like I had to take a vacation to get AWAY from romance or a place that gave me the sense that I need to retreat into sleep so that I can dream of more mundane things like rotating my tires because in my waking hours all I see is ocean, sky, greenery and goddesses.
Mahalo nui for your kind words. No. I have only been here 2 years but it was love at first sight and I do feel like it has been one poem after another since first I saw Hawai'i. It has always moved right through me and out the other side in a way that is exquisite and painful.
I do miss my girl very much and it is kind of you to mention her memorial. That came about quickly and straight from the heart as the best expressions do. I will replace her memorial with a pink vireya when the time is right. I miss her feminine presence very much but have been distracted since her death in a way that it is very merciful.
As for the sheep, now that I think of it, I had one in a car, too. I had been working in a airplane part factory and got "kissing disease" or mononucleosis (scandalous at the time!. I was young but got so sick I had to move in with parents again. They lived on a farm in a rural area of California. I loved it there and loved being taken care of by my parents. I got into the farming life and found myself at an livestock auction. I bought a sheep and put him in my mom's Buick and drove back to the farm. His name was Bernie. He had lots of character.
Still, although cars do transport sheep, I have to agree with csgray that in the aggregate you see more odd things like that here than most other places and all of that contributes to that sense of irreality.
I have never lived in a place where I felt like I had to take a vacation to get AWAY from romance or a place that gave me the sense that I need to retreat into sleep so that I can dream of more mundane things like rotating my tires because in my waking hours all I see is ocean, sky, greenery and goddesses.