Today is Pjer's and mine 39th Wedding Anniversary...
... on that day, I was presented with a choice to pick ONE among infinite number of parallel worlds...
... and I chose THIS ONE...
Showing posts with label Hawai'i aka Big Island. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hawai'i aka Big Island. Show all posts
08 February 2019
I Chose THIS ONE
Pu'u Kuili, Hawai'i aka Big Island
Today is Pjer's and mine 39th Wedding Anniversary...
... on that day, I was presented with a choice to pick ONE among infinite number of parallel worlds...
... and I chose THIS ONE...
Today is Pjer's and mine 39th Wedding Anniversary...
... on that day, I was presented with a choice to pick ONE among infinite number of parallel worlds...
... and I chose THIS ONE...
10 May 2018
CO2 brings Pleasure
Mauna Loa Observatory, Mauna Loa, Hawai'i aka Big Island
On May 2nd Mauna Loa Observatory released atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) data for the month of April. For the first time on record, the average amount of carbon dioxide — the main long-lived gas responsible for global warming — in the air passed 410 parts per million (ppm) for an entire month... Katharine Hayhoe, climate scientist at TTU is quoted on multiple websites:
On May 2nd Mauna Loa Observatory released atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) data for the month of April. For the first time on record, the average amount of carbon dioxide — the main long-lived gas responsible for global warming — in the air passed 410 parts per million (ppm) for an entire month... Katharine Hayhoe, climate scientist at TTU is quoted on multiple websites:
As to why the continued growth... is so alarming, it is because it is a continued indicator that we are conducting an inadvertent and unprecedented experiment with our planet, the only home we have. It’s as if we discovered that something we eat every day is causing our body to run a fever and develop all kinds of harmful symptoms — and instead of cutting back, we keep on eating it. If that isn’t alarming, I don’t know what is.It is NOT... and Why? Because we humans love GOOD LIFE... A game of golf. Skiing slopes. A trip to Hawai'i. No-sweat summers. Virtual worlds... and all those SPECIALS... these are all CO2 pleasures and feel-goods of our lives... Are we ready to give them up? For the only home we have?... Marching on into the future... with SOLAR, WIND, and GREEN... the buzzwords that make us feel good about our feel-goods...
07 May 2018
DANGER DO NOT ENTER
Kilauea, Halemaumau Crater, Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park
Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park Service ALERT IN EFFECT Date: May 4, 2018
... Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park is evacuating all visitors and non-emergency staff today due to a series of strong and damaging earthquakes that continue to rock Kīlauea Volcano...Pele is making herself known... again... I remember when I first met Her... Walking towards the Crater. Hawai'i clouds moving around... mystique of white and gray... and the Crater... fuming... fenced off with the warning DANGER DO NOT ENTER... cracks and cinder reminding those who know... and those who do not...
... On April 30, the crater within Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō vent on the volcano’s eastern flank collapsed, sending torrents of magma towards lower Puna communities. On May 3, lava erupted out of a fissure in the Leilani Estates neighborhood, which was evacuated by Hawai‘i County Civil Defense...
19 March 2017
A Day for Watching
Keokea Bay, Hawai’i aka Big Island
The Hurricane has just passed by the Island. First Thought: The Waves. No surfers today. They say: It is too chaotic. Or too dangerous? I do not see the chaos. It is the Size. It is the Power. Crushing into the Cliffs. An Infinite Energy. Giving IT to the Cliffs. To the Air. And to Me. In millions of flying droplets.
The Hurricane has just passed by the Island. First Thought: The Waves. No surfers today. They say: It is too chaotic. Or too dangerous? I do not see the chaos. It is the Size. It is the Power. Crushing into the Cliffs. An Infinite Energy. Giving IT to the Cliffs. To the Air. And to Me. In millions of flying droplets.
03 March 2017
Living in a Made-up World
Searching Internet. It is loaded with all kinds of made-up photos of places which have nothing to do with real places. We humans seem to be enjoying this Make-Believe world. Made-up faces. Made-up stories. Made-up sunsets...... and on and on it goes. Perfumed and Amplified Hallucinations. Can we NOT sense the Here-and-Now anymore? The Shades. The Sounds. The Scents. The Tactile. The Flavors. As Distant from the Nature as ever.
08 February 2017
A Day for Swimming
Mauna Kea Beach, Hawai'i aka Big Island
You swim to experience the water rippling past you, and to enjoy the floating sensation when you lie on your back and look at the blue sky and the birds circling about. Every moment of it you are simply absorbed in this ripply, luminous world, looking at the patterns and the shifting net of sunlight underneath and the sand way down below - that's what swimming is about.
ALAN WATTS, Still the Mind
20 January 2017
Coral Sand follows Life
Makalawena Beach, Kekaha Kai State Park, Hawai'i aka Big Island
Walking along. Turquoise ocean in my eyes. Coral sand around my feet. Bits and pieces of corals and shells. Follows Life on Coral Reefs. Rainforests of the Ocean. They Make these beaches humans call Paradise. Today under threat from all the man-made ills that plague the world. Can they survive? Or NOT? No Coral Reefs. No Coral Life. No Coral Sand. No Paradise. I wonder?
Walking along. Turquoise ocean in my eyes. Coral sand around my feet. Bits and pieces of corals and shells. Follows Life on Coral Reefs. Rainforests of the Ocean. They Make these beaches humans call Paradise. Today under threat from all the man-made ills that plague the world. Can they survive? Or NOT? No Coral Reefs. No Coral Life. No Coral Sand. No Paradise. I wonder?
