tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88583224485455267542024-03-28T12:52:05.281-10:00Ponderings on my WanderingsWander Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14596972014597608968noreply@blogger.comBlogger83125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8858322448545526754.post-66627315223670580212023-08-07T09:47:00.020-10:002023-08-08T11:37:17.565-10:00Perfect Timing <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzFn7umWZqWj2et9VIpblHrzZDr19-DBGmr3TdNLGdptwbd4k1t5MtDy0iS5CtPpZVAgBLqH0I2Lp0E_tgB_CvoPxEUs00k9N3WUkSbRIha7I8jonwySD2DBQDNbkn1efzibYVer2RBZDKf4F8rKuwvGE2jLcpiqhfoXu0uUeevmbUshgilJY-c1uY7tIF/s6790/IMG_8079.jpeg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="3958" data-original-width="6790" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzFn7umWZqWj2et9VIpblHrzZDr19-DBGmr3TdNLGdptwbd4k1t5MtDy0iS5CtPpZVAgBLqH0I2Lp0E_tgB_CvoPxEUs00k9N3WUkSbRIha7I8jonwySD2DBQDNbkn1efzibYVer2RBZDKf4F8rKuwvGE2jLcpiqhfoXu0uUeevmbUshgilJY-c1uY7tIF/s400/IMG_8079.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div>
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The urge to be enveloped by the ocean depths was unusually strong in the late afternoon. As if I simply had to be in the water. It was a peaceful Sunday morning and for the first time in weeks the construction noise next door was on hiatus. I'd been writing on the lanai and watching the ocean, the surging fairly consistent and not the glassy stillness I'd been jumping into as of late. And yet I couldn't shake the longing to jump in. I walked down and stood on the edge of the rock face and watched, waiting for a lull, a settling. But the timing was too close together so I choose to wait longer on the shore, a little cove of sand with a shallow pool of salt water. Wearing my swim shirt I laid on my stomach thinking about my last dream.
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My right shoulder became suddenly hot and I turned over to splash cool water on it. My legs now barely under water on the sand and I noticed something sparkle, then another and another. Star shapes were moving across the sand, perfect mini north stars. I looked above me half expecting to see someone on the rocks with faceted crystals or holding a pair of thick glasses. But it was only blue sky, the sun and a few puffy clouds. The sun was doing this but what was it shining through? Then I noticed a tiny piece of sea foam floating on the water above the star. It was shining through the tiny bubbles. Just then, a larger wave came rolling over the rocks, filling the tiny beach with agitated sea water. When the sand settled, even more stars covered the sand, slowly moving across my legs and feet. As I looked closer, each star enclosed a rainbow and each one unique in size. "Perfect timing" I thought. </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;">And all the specific timing of things that had to happen in that moment to create this beautifully unique experience for me.
A bright sunny day, the placement of the sun in the sky, the timing of the tide, the agitation of the wave, the angle of the light...me turning to cool my hot shoulder. Earlier there was no water in this area, the tide was lower. Minutes later the stars were gone, the sun had moved.
Rainbows remind me of promises awaiting fulfillment. Dreams and heart desires. There were so many today, so many coming to reassure me, projecting on my physical body and dancing all around me. "You're only waiting on the timing, when it all falls into alignment...be still and notice the awe."
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Psalm 65:7-8 </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Poppins;">Who stills the roaring of the seas,
The roaring of their waves, and the tumult of the peoples, So they who dwell at the ends of the earth stand in awe of Your signs </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Poppins;">You make the dawn and the sunset shout for joy.
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Genesis 22:17
Indeed I will greatly bless you, and I will greatly multiply your descendants like the stars of the heavens and like the sand on the seashore...
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The highs and the lows.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> The sea glass waters fold over into pure white as they pummel the coastline. The sun and moon pull them, the invisible wind pushes them. And in the stillness they are still. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGGLCocM6okjjIOaz7fcEXQ9IFziCZGIpI5699_jdMrybpEECwHAYgn0mYQb5R6m_aZqFmxvL92lPS7M7gFHyPaHBa9R0hxGRYt4lsqr_BeZ-jMCw610mD5PTeMYS_c7QvrkfbTUgPy-WmXGRh2CYbhg1ZLZBLqSuay9m3cuJAs1DQFIRHLDY8iO0-Sg/s2048/_SDB0431.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Big Island Hawaii coastline lava rock" border="0" data-original-height="1291" data-original-width="2048" height="404" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGGLCocM6okjjIOaz7fcEXQ9IFziCZGIpI5699_jdMrybpEECwHAYgn0mYQb5R6m_aZqFmxvL92lPS7M7gFHyPaHBa9R0hxGRYt4lsqr_BeZ-jMCw610mD5PTeMYS_c7QvrkfbTUgPy-WmXGRh2CYbhg1ZLZBLqSuay9m3cuJAs1DQFIRHLDY8iO0-Sg/w640-h404/_SDB0431.jpg" title="Big Island Hawaii coastline lava rock" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE-cMvJO23DRi4GlJ-REa2dw8QU55ujT9omNJF9VAEuwysLNIo439hgiH6J_4b7_K_bapFrIQ9WmGlH3NJPJpQqjoGOIFOhj8LY9V2F8gMa6I0CtaIcmUgcF41-ilpPUkOXMQHlPewSFq7KuPScx81BFadRWcAczOdafcZfJWdugfaYENdgvwrFP7lBQ/s8256/_SDB0418.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Teal clouds and ocean Hawaii" border="0" data-original-height="5504" data-original-width="8256" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE-cMvJO23DRi4GlJ-REa2dw8QU55ujT9omNJF9VAEuwysLNIo439hgiH6J_4b7_K_bapFrIQ9WmGlH3NJPJpQqjoGOIFOhj8LY9V2F8gMa6I0CtaIcmUgcF41-ilpPUkOXMQHlPewSFq7KuPScx81BFadRWcAczOdafcZfJWdugfaYENdgvwrFP7lBQ/w640-h426/_SDB0418.jpg" title="teal clouds and ocean Hawaii" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrBIgVddCcWyK7lwkBeaHoEuI5BRX0ZdrU6rdqPBJk-khNFciKcXsh_FrzCtSJaUgNvSkWrztlSaWyRK7JY50ODJUei_Wpb332VYK23ralKFCP2FmjB7cnaPNgb6bUYHJOp3FWc-5dPYiB3VrJ7noJzI9jOMpOXrr7mPOjp5zbhlcjasxPNgA3Hj8aTw/s2048/_SDB0507.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Hawaii ocean crashing" border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrBIgVddCcWyK7lwkBeaHoEuI5BRX0ZdrU6rdqPBJk-khNFciKcXsh_FrzCtSJaUgNvSkWrztlSaWyRK7JY50ODJUei_Wpb332VYK23ralKFCP2FmjB7cnaPNgb6bUYHJOp3FWc-5dPYiB3VrJ7noJzI9jOMpOXrr7mPOjp5zbhlcjasxPNgA3Hj8aTw/w640-h426/_SDB0507.jpg" title="Hawaii ocean crashing" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The vigorous shaking of the sea and all that floats within it creates it's own sudsy edge.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPXJ1jTLy1F2Fjlrjg1W-rpW4r0HJeC--2w88L5okPoGHyqbPaQpRp65RKwAaJkZo3M9NbjVHGsZNs9KsKsrFgY4WPjFSoDdJhoEXGXR233VLoiCy4GjvMPL11XPqJvCOTG1k1ZFF-YnK3lka65lzSj9Cc5O4a0wLMTVPBrdCB7m6SnROSxqGCN0ICWw/s2048/_SDB0599.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Pink clouds" border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPXJ1jTLy1F2Fjlrjg1W-rpW4r0HJeC--2w88L5okPoGHyqbPaQpRp65RKwAaJkZo3M9NbjVHGsZNs9KsKsrFgY4WPjFSoDdJhoEXGXR233VLoiCy4GjvMPL11XPqJvCOTG1k1ZFF-YnK3lka65lzSj9Cc5O4a0wLMTVPBrdCB7m6SnROSxqGCN0ICWw/w640-h426/_SDB0599.jpg" title="Pink Clouds" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; text-align: center;"> The pink clouds unveiled amongst the darkest with small strokes of hope. </span></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="circle of pink white and dark clouds" border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1365" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhC3ZYDtppBmR2kYji8V82IG2h9I_qLVkcvBYiCWH6arZHR0ypLLiJJs83Hupk8o73l-wx9cL6OMNZCXv46TMMLWNIHNv7egqiM6QJzvtjyj26NxyymTRQIPawPz93d6l6P196jHcimHZFxielhIpiMStXqqVZdukL7mjVvCo9YdiWf9GaELRhoU2uUVg/w426-h640/_SDB0585-2.jpg" width="426" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfERF144Z6z-WH8fcNcK9mzVr2ZtnZuuVWeFcNOt6bKh27TsgedUYHfjB-WS38ogmCOje4slbINKz1GefYKD7z4iGb8T5nizlSJgDThaCz7Qs8YzGKqUgsNZTteup8iZCVboZ0ywqHh6T1ktRqtQKliB2RFWqgJ6O_xJsV-DFMRtKA3FCG2IZ7ZRdMfw/s2048/_SDB0564.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="humpback whale shaped cloud" border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfERF144Z6z-WH8fcNcK9mzVr2ZtnZuuVWeFcNOt6bKh27TsgedUYHfjB-WS38ogmCOje4slbINKz1GefYKD7z4iGb8T5nizlSJgDThaCz7Qs8YzGKqUgsNZTteup8iZCVboZ0ywqHh6T1ktRqtQKliB2RFWqgJ6O_xJsV-DFMRtKA3FCG2IZ7ZRdMfw/w640-h426/_SDB0564.jpg" title="humpback whale shaped cloud" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div style="text-align: center;">The sky watches the humpback whales below and mimics their breaching. </div></span><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGmKuyHKcxb_ienllKUdjmPLwnDw1u-pY18iQSkWqY6-RjRWd2kdA-6_Weobw8FLC18i7XVknCb9Y3Gh12fsl8buKfXREMjYchTy-t-pNJ7b6MRnXIZDkWuFW9PDX7EhIzE8hI3OHyEbIbRoZa8uX7oR9eC916VoloSpLweAR_PSp1LruaYI5hB5CUCw/s2048/_SDB0503.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Turquoise wave curl" border="0" data-original-height="1287" data-original-width="2048" height="402" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGmKuyHKcxb_ienllKUdjmPLwnDw1u-pY18iQSkWqY6-RjRWd2kdA-6_Weobw8FLC18i7XVknCb9Y3Gh12fsl8buKfXREMjYchTy-t-pNJ7b6MRnXIZDkWuFW9PDX7EhIzE8hI3OHyEbIbRoZa8uX7oR9eC916VoloSpLweAR_PSp1LruaYI5hB5CUCw/w640-h402/_SDB0503.jpg" title="Turquoise wave curl" width="640" /></a></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; text-align: center;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The ocean water isn't blue and yet blue is what our eyes see. Or rather all the colors we don't see. When the sun shines down all the colors of the rainbow unto the ocean, all the colors are absorbed except blue and green, giving our eyes turquoise. The depth of the ocean as well as what the foundation is gives us the shade of blue green. Isn't that </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">marvelous! </span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-X580aIZle3V5YTJTm27IiaUlEA1-RnL2F0lOM1WxQbzCv1JuGLLCPNDQREG1V3rLBAa0277ZmSDfVbG0cU0s_UmJ8EHAZv1YEkoKsCJPbHXjQvcvHbu8DzrMPdLgm96_pa5DstQUlxe6rDMX13ZmcyK3M6aNmbKdTpwvagiq-JvwgyKn_UcIIp-utQ/s2048/_SDB0504.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Turquoise ocean wave Hawaii" border="0" data-original-height="1257" data-original-width="2048" height="392" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-X580aIZle3V5YTJTm27IiaUlEA1-RnL2F0lOM1WxQbzCv1JuGLLCPNDQREG1V3rLBAa0277ZmSDfVbG0cU0s_UmJ8EHAZv1YEkoKsCJPbHXjQvcvHbu8DzrMPdLgm96_pa5DstQUlxe6rDMX13ZmcyK3M6aNmbKdTpwvagiq-JvwgyKn_UcIIp-utQ/w640-h392/_SDB0504.jpg" title="Turquoise ocean wave Hawaii" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDamNuQB_J7hWfg8MrUOHWbdtU8GzDIczTMI-6xjnSWqjnR4svrDMlDYyhkADuZauYk01fyag9pRwKdbs061oBFJsOF-1Gn45oBSH-MBGahe8HkRuh3dkk0dSUoFOLNHx8nm287XwY7OpHGMylV53v9Uzxkodif8eORE3TxM7qK7mTtJyYLAhocO72oQ/s2048/_SDB0610.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Hawaii ocean sunset with clouds" border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDamNuQB_J7hWfg8MrUOHWbdtU8GzDIczTMI-6xjnSWqjnR4svrDMlDYyhkADuZauYk01fyag9pRwKdbs061oBFJsOF-1Gn45oBSH-MBGahe8HkRuh3dkk0dSUoFOLNHx8nm287XwY7OpHGMylV53v9Uzxkodif8eORE3TxM7qK7mTtJyYLAhocO72oQ/w640-h426/_SDB0610.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />Wander Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14596972014597608968noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8858322448545526754.post-76280498055050659802023-01-29T19:08:00.001-10:002023-03-14T18:59:26.994-10:00Light in the Darkness: Monochrome After the Storm <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: medium;">Lightning cracked open the sky and the heavens opened upon </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: medium;">our little Big Island. </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: medium;">Monochrome after the storm... January 2023</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIlRcjvpPnOol7kBkm8nu9-QFa4rCF7vXbmRkxDcQEXuZjbnM8pICk5ZkVA4E6mBk0A2dLzBrO8XKu9Ws3uknrjdJzu-D4-X-TdCaltZSpLiX1odMYoA31yH68c5icUtHDBn92_Xr2Oo80UqNxOrIRzdEexzkxvLMyttQIBuoTiUx1mUPYAK1XLpOMHg/s2048/_SDB0412.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Monochrome Ocean Clouds Dramatic" border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIlRcjvpPnOol7kBkm8nu9-QFa4rCF7vXbmRkxDcQEXuZjbnM8pICk5ZkVA4E6mBk0A2dLzBrO8XKu9Ws3uknrjdJzu-D4-X-TdCaltZSpLiX1odMYoA31yH68c5icUtHDBn92_Xr2Oo80UqNxOrIRzdEexzkxvLMyttQIBuoTiUx1mUPYAK1XLpOMHg/w640-h426/_SDB0412.jpg" title="Monochrome Ocean Clouds Dramatic" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier;">Burning the light at both ends. </span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEgHzH99RhnLxvqkGZskMEhQ22uW0gwsOYlR_Axl0BkKKJzaM4Dt0aPgdhjWaXQFUzOitlY4MIL3o8rx9BMOzXuAWuMsMIgGEJd0QnMqpSCloquf9gdmwexXKCrWjD6z9kK3pmX9OzPAEsaSQ6i-BbdRCz-TR-SW4APq_rYRo8smeF7Sz-QjZYXxoZ8Q/s2048/_SDB0413.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Monochrome Clouds high contrast" border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEgHzH99RhnLxvqkGZskMEhQ22uW0gwsOYlR_Axl0BkKKJzaM4Dt0aPgdhjWaXQFUzOitlY4MIL3o8rx9BMOzXuAWuMsMIgGEJd0QnMqpSCloquf9gdmwexXKCrWjD6z9kK3pmX9OzPAEsaSQ6i-BbdRCz-TR-SW4APq_rYRo8smeF7Sz-QjZYXxoZ8Q/w640-h426/_SDB0413.jpg" title="Black and white clouds" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier;">Boom!</span></p></span><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5LxgSRWBX8pka-gAvyy7Lozq-cVl8zIe5mqtuYBepY4F-bEiIEkH7M7_DL5WEzXfCj093bTp6cVvxin9TtmabPxuMzO65eZpavgw-XX8qbHkSwb2Mma3LASA7j0aGVFWcc4M0nCKDkOcG5uamYxmEoW4GGGm7TZRT7yP3g3tTotn4JMVPMQzB1GGtKg/s2048/_SDB0302.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="White water on lava rocks" border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5LxgSRWBX8pka-gAvyy7Lozq-cVl8zIe5mqtuYBepY4F-bEiIEkH7M7_DL5WEzXfCj093bTp6cVvxin9TtmabPxuMzO65eZpavgw-XX8qbHkSwb2Mma3LASA7j0aGVFWcc4M0nCKDkOcG5uamYxmEoW4GGGm7TZRT7yP3g3tTotn4JMVPMQzB1GGtKg/w640-h426/_SDB0302.jpg" title="White water on lava rocks" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: medium;">Coalesce.</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCfFzmD8grOCGhc_s4sl11VRirO4zMT-mE-fwV5FyLXKpK50OntjpnycDQEDLpZ3CCD9PHC3Tl_Gx2xJd2QAd6IX3ZaeZ8Gfvr7t7Gy0eCiOHFlx82rBrD3p10JiAHENEU-gz7lAOqSdHqGf-tDK4BPf1Sh9PSZ1iEra_cFo0ypXrzBoXXHrjEB1y6ew/s2048/_SDB0331.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1365" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCfFzmD8grOCGhc_s4sl11VRirO4zMT-mE-fwV5FyLXKpK50OntjpnycDQEDLpZ3CCD9PHC3Tl_Gx2xJd2QAd6IX3ZaeZ8Gfvr7t7Gy0eCiOHFlx82rBrD3p10JiAHENEU-gz7lAOqSdHqGf-tDK4BPf1Sh9PSZ1iEra_cFo0ypXrzBoXXHrjEB1y6ew/w426-h640/_SDB0331.jpg" width="426" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: medium;">Extrovert/Introvert</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRxa915Qm6_5F22DHHNs8GkO928HszOi0zMxvb7tgVVZjvJzResE9AUQnD2ZvLKo2nmuUFDpMdTExt8mYnaDqgZx9U8qe7cFaBdVw4JttLmHWe_rKBuuRj_J6bpL5sx88kiDYXvf03FZ1okF2_xVpKxwREleT79yB0t2nXsT3fC2fRmGmj3eI_qt0V2w/s2048/_SDB0348.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1365" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRxa915Qm6_5F22DHHNs8GkO928HszOi0zMxvb7tgVVZjvJzResE9AUQnD2ZvLKo2nmuUFDpMdTExt8mYnaDqgZx9U8qe7cFaBdVw4JttLmHWe_rKBuuRj_J6bpL5sx88kiDYXvf03FZ1okF2_xVpKxwREleT79yB0t2nXsT3fC2fRmGmj3eI_qt0V2w/w426-h640/_SDB0348.jpg" width="426" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: medium;">Abounding. </span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfbPh4kIcUsYc5d4B1q4vt0jP8rFl-1RXJB9W319tqJLslIFJIKZKVvLFTCuHqbpZNqu3mnz2AEJLhVYZuyWtNMKJP9cozuQ0zvbARlRVbzMTfoAOLqGaKrrr-Ux7Wqs2ipLOxG13bhMFKq7nmnsZvZsTq2UmqRfoz3csg7cbY4be8mgd7W-XxY2sBRg/s2048/_SDB0352.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Black and white palm Fran" border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfbPh4kIcUsYc5d4B1q4vt0jP8rFl-1RXJB9W319tqJLslIFJIKZKVvLFTCuHqbpZNqu3mnz2AEJLhVYZuyWtNMKJP9cozuQ0zvbARlRVbzMTfoAOLqGaKrrr-Ux7Wqs2ipLOxG13bhMFKq7nmnsZvZsTq2UmqRfoz3csg7cbY4be8mgd7W-XxY2sBRg/w640-h426/_SDB0352.jpg" title="Black and white palm leaf" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: medium;">Unfurled.</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1mSypOxskGKhYLmaBFUTEboej39euc8v3s5e6zwcYkBhQLYKRy5FWnT8aJXOGgp-DV83PzajB9RQEWLxQJV1RroQbh42OlCMKFEBo7JALWWnlw98Qbrn1bWD0HDGsbT9TjZsyQuzoOG7Q_K1Y-c0Lw2jjcYUhkV6SHXVezzS7DT9sS5G40VyWUwNBUg/s2048/_SDB0362.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1365" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1mSypOxskGKhYLmaBFUTEboej39euc8v3s5e6zwcYkBhQLYKRy5FWnT8aJXOGgp-DV83PzajB9RQEWLxQJV1RroQbh42OlCMKFEBo7JALWWnlw98Qbrn1bWD0HDGsbT9TjZsyQuzoOG7Q_K1Y-c0Lw2jjcYUhkV6SHXVezzS7DT9sS5G40VyWUwNBUg/w426-h640/_SDB0362.jpg" width="426" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: medium;">Unwavering.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTBZ9NNEKkbHMe4JBUX2LdwSj9VU_beDsiLV_GOev4Vw7EYLYwNs26t52-IEecBQrYnWXS6fHOlV7uvTg9daoAluKGEUyDBOmPBXpcn7fwcVqUjOZpzwknWcmOyZOg6eO0XrdU8xeEFwfPU9qEujp6jdcupTO4cVCT7HFtCJ7T6n7f-oQnTyZoNs3ckA/s2048/_SDB0374.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="plumeria on a black lava rock" border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTBZ9NNEKkbHMe4JBUX2LdwSj9VU_beDsiLV_GOev4Vw7EYLYwNs26t52-IEecBQrYnWXS6fHOlV7uvTg9daoAluKGEUyDBOmPBXpcn7fwcVqUjOZpzwknWcmOyZOg6eO0XrdU8xeEFwfPU9qEujp6jdcupTO4cVCT7HFtCJ7T6n7f-oQnTyZoNs3ckA/w640-h426/_SDB0374.jpg" title="white plumeria black rock" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: medium;">Face-plant.</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJjSPtySStIZKPMyRPSGtVvxcTNKoPBRwwrhXT4xxi1FgUUQgsv0AEiDi3qsv_40vDwZNqhTSGOyvKpuXkmlmZ54OOHUQDOUi7S_3GUsWCpN_UJgU9oICJac84iSVdp54eb32QLVZgFbBGYsqvxL7GXxlHYmJGLcvq9r5HTX98LofXcBTP6-wYOR-1yA/s2048/_SDB0379.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="a solitary white plumeria" border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1365" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJjSPtySStIZKPMyRPSGtVvxcTNKoPBRwwrhXT4xxi1FgUUQgsv0AEiDi3qsv_40vDwZNqhTSGOyvKpuXkmlmZ54OOHUQDOUi7S_3GUsWCpN_UJgU9oICJac84iSVdp54eb32QLVZgFbBGYsqvxL7GXxlHYmJGLcvq9r5HTX98LofXcBTP6-wYOR-1yA/w426-h640/_SDB0379.jpg" title="a solitary white plumeria" width="426" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: medium;">Luminary.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG1Zqjv0U3JACVdbrPEgNtUUmeo7VTAOf-6jgShRIlSEimOnOFHe4rGL4OkqqPU_v-YL1YIIXYI4m03uyZEb42aNyZiSf9eMXQX2BrKbR9W-_ucuNqfVFs2yJf4ItE0DYMrAqOvl_c11J-d1ADR-_iEhzb6PS8TnCb22LDR5YEKa1krYf9kvU_VnU9Fw/s2048/_SDB0383.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1365" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG1Zqjv0U3JACVdbrPEgNtUUmeo7VTAOf-6jgShRIlSEimOnOFHe4rGL4OkqqPU_v-YL1YIIXYI4m03uyZEb42aNyZiSf9eMXQX2BrKbR9W-_ucuNqfVFs2yJf4ItE0DYMrAqOvl_c11J-d1ADR-_iEhzb6PS8TnCb22LDR5YEKa1krYf9kvU_VnU9Fw/w426-h640/_SDB0383.jpg" width="426" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: medium;">Trickled.</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhU3SXMdf5dG_f-qu8-GPRDqofnX1ZBY4ZvCp76znBQYoefBysTXGH3D2UU4ZYVMO_kjWoa8EwDzpQ5N_2D3iAmAEbOwsT2wUJuWWvPPmI1yPQIiveOqbpvEJDMPs49pnNWCQ7M2OuZ7LmRDjOA9uG-_snuj35DeenqCbobUFy4hAUsPCJp3Wqzb4PGyg/s2048/_SDB0388.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhU3SXMdf5dG_f-qu8-GPRDqofnX1ZBY4ZvCp76znBQYoefBysTXGH3D2UU4ZYVMO_kjWoa8EwDzpQ5N_2D3iAmAEbOwsT2wUJuWWvPPmI1yPQIiveOqbpvEJDMPs49pnNWCQ7M2OuZ7LmRDjOA9uG-_snuj35DeenqCbobUFy4hAUsPCJp3Wqzb4PGyg/w640-h426/_SDB0388.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: large;">Fuchsia refused to be captured in monochrome.</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPIiEmKwY-KSY931grgllMMyquM9TtMXOjvQY7v9Kx4ciqkZvECmvLAX-mnKDAf9LjKsLachh55SSJvvrpTooDf--sRHgFP6M5ZbQMkJosfT8QLPCeZTI0lPn9SqPHEirFH2FAagctjjXHxt2Lmd2mpIrwzLTK1kTRhEcj8ey3tQ2TwJtIDDDY5uKsjw/s2048/_SDB0389.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPIiEmKwY-KSY931grgllMMyquM9TtMXOjvQY7v9Kx4ciqkZvECmvLAX-mnKDAf9LjKsLachh55SSJvvrpTooDf--sRHgFP6M5ZbQMkJosfT8QLPCeZTI0lPn9SqPHEirFH2FAagctjjXHxt2Lmd2mpIrwzLTK1kTRhEcj8ey3tQ2TwJtIDDDY5uKsjw/w640-h426/_SDB0389.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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</span></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand;"><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;">Born in darkness and stubborn in nature, its growth is exposed to the light. </p></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand;"><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;">Obstinate it chooses the instantaneous and artificial in the mockery of its inheritance. The temporary perfection that can never be enough, becoming all consuming. A continuous submergence into darkness, masking the genuine and blocking the light. Yet it never stops reaching, longing to be restored.</p></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand;"><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 16px; min-height: 19px; text-align: left;"> </p></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand;"><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;">One day it refuses the imperious serpentine in the howling wasteland and returns to whom it was meant to be, who it was all along. And the longer it spends with the sun, the more it longs to be like it. A little every day and some more than others, it soon dances in the wind, twirling in golden rays. The ends, the wiser of the strands, now assimilating the incandescence. And after decades it learns to be more transparent, wisdom birthing and radiating the light from within. No longer hiding in the shadows but celebrating the return home. </p></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand;"><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px; text-align: left;"> </p></span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand;"><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px; text-align: left;"></p></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand;"><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;">Proverbs 16:31</p></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand;"><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;">The silver-haired head is a crown of splendor and glory;</p></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand;"><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;">It is found in the way of righteousness.</p></span></div></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand;"><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><br /></p></span></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand;"><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;">Proverbs 20:29</p></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand;"><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;">The glory of young men is their physical strength; and the honor of aged men is their gray head (representing wisdom and experience).</p></span></div></blockquote><p> </p><p>John 15:20</p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px;">So he got up and started back to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was moved with compassion. He ran and threw his arms around him and kissed him warmly.</span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand;"><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"> </p></span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p> </p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p></p></blockquote>
Wander Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14596972014597608968noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8858322448545526754.post-47717613124306881792022-08-25T18:40:00.004-10:002023-08-26T17:21:56.252-10:00My Lips Forever Salty<p> </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAmLNGgtcZmTAea2TClzbCeTNFWKUBE9MqoZd86R-K9KPeawel-4UMlkh7ctodFydaF-qQx-dAzk1djAJqddwWJ9_LbnyKJmf20ToJgjrbyS_gXhx3_RIoKfG76Jn8ZqlwxjRKLj_m2yPnRZrqogRDoot5_W-iDuM6FvM8GS648CuN2k70R_Gm-K0kDA/s1620/unnamed.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Huge Wave hitting the lava rock coast of Kailua Kona Big Island, Photographer Sarah Bello" border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1620" height="427" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAmLNGgtcZmTAea2TClzbCeTNFWKUBE9MqoZd86R-K9KPeawel-4UMlkh7ctodFydaF-qQx-dAzk1djAJqddwWJ9_LbnyKJmf20ToJgjrbyS_gXhx3_RIoKfG76Jn8ZqlwxjRKLj_m2yPnRZrqogRDoot5_W-iDuM6FvM8GS648CuN2k70R_Gm-K0kDA/w640-h427/unnamed.jpg" title="Wave hitting the lava rock coast of Kailua Kona Big Island Photographer Sarah Bello" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;">The North Pacific and I share an ever-changing relationship built on elation, cloaked in a heavy respect I’d never turn my back on. Wild beauty in tremendous strength able to change the land as easy as it does ones character. Moodiest of the melancholy during the seasonal storms and celebratory as the sun that sparkles off it’s spirited glassy surface.</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;">Mostly magnificently unexplored and delightedly unmapped, leaving a perpetual adventure of the unknown and home to millions of beautifully strange creatures. </span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;">Fixated on the water, surreptitiously building, I wait anxiously to jump between the tumult agitations that long to pull me into their influence. I take a carefully timed leap bordering speculation. Submerged in translucent envelopment I pause my breath until I break the surface again. Before my heart gets accustomed to the quickening I grab for the jagged coastline and find a foot hold. I sneak out quickly before I awaken the deep and it’s invisible grasp returns to pull me back in. Upright I wait on the edge and pour over the Pacific once more. </span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;">I drift off to sleep by it’s powerful devotion to keep moving, lulling me into the depth of slow wave sleep. It’s deafening rogues spring me awake with rebellious estrangement. I sink back</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;">feeling the rumble of the island. The moon high in the sky yet pulling the tides. </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;">The coast and my lips forever salty. </span></p>Wander Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14596972014597608968noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8858322448545526754.post-83761991871722378502022-07-18T16:46:00.002-10:002022-08-29T14:59:36.832-10:00Grow with What You've Got <p><span style="font-family: Poppins; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVaSka-D2ya4TGXelw6yQn2lEQJXVK_kHV4PLRDlTaPPxADxuHYJACesS5aA3ol_zWkYQ6KykZRxTu6_VpY7FvUH7UziJU4qA2IXfzQuRLKQD1CXv2pwrHG263H7ElGZCsO53vggECTiQP0uRlyi7ZELwQa02hz1qSu5OlJJwvMTx1vUuQTZGwlIHk6A/s1015/70514164_10220698401274032_2261396162193915904_n.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Veggie and tea garden including Bee Balm, Echinacea, Kale, Squash, Concord grapes in Franklin Tennessee" border="0" data-original-height="858" data-original-width="1015" height="542" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVaSka-D2ya4TGXelw6yQn2lEQJXVK_kHV4PLRDlTaPPxADxuHYJACesS5aA3ol_zWkYQ6KykZRxTu6_VpY7FvUH7UziJU4qA2IXfzQuRLKQD1CXv2pwrHG263H7ElGZCsO53vggECTiQP0uRlyi7ZELwQa02hz1qSu5OlJJwvMTx1vUuQTZGwlIHk6A/w640-h542/70514164_10220698401274032_2261396162193915904_n.jpg" title="Bee Balm, Bee Balm, Echinacea, Kale, Squash, Concord grapes" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: -webkit-standard;">Plants gone wild (Bee Balm, Echinacea, Kale, Squash, Concord grapes) </b></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: Poppins; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: Poppins; font-size: large;"> My vegetable and herbal tea garden in Tennessee would start with a fresh all dirt showing when it was still technically winter. After spring hinted its arrival, I started sowing and as the teeny seedlings began to emerge, it would quickly turn into a wild beautiful landscape filled with flowers, veggies, bees and butterflies. Okra as tall my fence, bergamot as tall as me, everything growing with everything creating a treasure hunt for each day's harvest. Every year it got bigger as I added and previous years plantings returned. </span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfNKSH_Cwmkv7tfy5MIX33zhTqY_Ox2demoWPv1sb4amNYmOEA90QwINqcDNUoSIxWN0pEN9uKYqxXsi_PUQvoGpqZ1NPzg9g02f0h5p3anKF4pwOlW9DxpHvDfF_R1SJVsps_IY7yFKyOZ0QzGIneEp1H84MLIO3zS6CjzmfbAEbXkqEnYkUWRgFqxg/s2048/33469272_10216713101804036_2894573065742581760_n.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Seedings Vegetable Garden Tennessee Kale" border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfNKSH_Cwmkv7tfy5MIX33zhTqY_Ox2demoWPv1sb4amNYmOEA90QwINqcDNUoSIxWN0pEN9uKYqxXsi_PUQvoGpqZ1NPzg9g02f0h5p3anKF4pwOlW9DxpHvDfF_R1SJVsps_IY7yFKyOZ0QzGIneEp1H84MLIO3zS6CjzmfbAEbXkqEnYkUWRgFqxg/w480-h640/33469272_10216713101804036_2894573065742581760_n.jpg" title="Seedings Vegetable Garden Tennessee Kale" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Seedlings in their starting rows - On your mark, get set, GO! </b></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p><span style="font-family: Poppins; font-size: medium;"> I've been yearning for my garden lately. Collecting plants in my head. I've tried things off and on here in Hawaii on the coast but most everything hates salt water. They seem to do well for a month or so until high surf arrives and the salt spray kills them. Among the deceased are a number of ghost pepper plants (not just a clever name) and jalapeño. Still hangin' on though are 3 pineapples (crowns started in a glass then put in the ground) and a couple of local chili peppers. I'm still waiting on them with bated breath to bring forth their pickable heat. It's a mini hot sauce garden really. Who doesn't love pineapple in their hot sauce? </span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5VOtlPKgwoOljc0TUownHQjM3vPDq9hNzeuZfNGQesQrVAJMhWexOrolqk_W3xmHlG9mSRtWGDrxB20oKO10KBtgqrUc_NpQEh3dwPfcYbZRzx7LineLffO-b5t6cCvjqWq2O75kUAR6JweYKhm8IH1bHdmaUn7fAO3FlRXfC773LVzn-P4h5t-84Tw/s4032/pineapple.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Pineapple and Hawaiian chili pepper garden in Hawaii" border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5VOtlPKgwoOljc0TUownHQjM3vPDq9hNzeuZfNGQesQrVAJMhWexOrolqk_W3xmHlG9mSRtWGDrxB20oKO10KBtgqrUc_NpQEh3dwPfcYbZRzx7LineLffO-b5t6cCvjqWq2O75kUAR6JweYKhm8IH1bHdmaUn7fAO3FlRXfC773LVzn-P4h5t-84Tw/w640-h480/pineapple.jpeg" title="Pineapple and Hawaiian Peppers" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Pineapples, Hawaiian Chili Peppers</b></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-family: Poppins; font-size: medium;"> I found a couple of what I thought were prickly pear paddles that turned out to be cochineal cacti on the bike lane just down the road. They'd taken a free dive off the mother cactus spilling over the rock wall border of a tropical domicile. I instinctively thought to save them since surely they'd parish on the concrete, and lo and behold one had grown roots to grip the road. Okay, that one is a survivor. I found a couple others that were more recent jumpers. </span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoJGLbmvJQguTYVRB2rBEAYjPkg2HU-ZGtPzihT1E1Fp8NicmOYGzvRWCqOTymPwfl1V3Y36bJIgHH4qnvMiTfMXgO8zBic4sImrxUlQmTVo9jTvQnms1WBJ17fpRTV5LvdxP37wlPHT6mPX-swdlJFHnjUPTt6SFHD6qKekj-SoOkFiCpMqHzcZ8LmQ/s4032/cactistreet.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Cactus paddle on the road in Hawaii" border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoJGLbmvJQguTYVRB2rBEAYjPkg2HU-ZGtPzihT1E1Fp8NicmOYGzvRWCqOTymPwfl1V3Y36bJIgHH4qnvMiTfMXgO8zBic4sImrxUlQmTVo9jTvQnms1WBJ17fpRTV5LvdxP37wlPHT6mPX-swdlJFHnjUPTt6SFHD6qKekj-SoOkFiCpMqHzcZ8LmQ/w480-h640/cactistreet.jpeg" title="Cactus paddle in the road" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>The Street-wise Cactus </b></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-family: Poppins; font-size: medium;">I came home and found a terracotta pot of previously tried herbs that said absolutely not to the salt air and disintegrated into the dirt for which they came. The grow your own community said Cacti like succulent soil.. quick search on what's in that...but also keeping in mind that one was growing on the concrete. Is buying special soil really necessary? Prickly yes, but not picky. I decided to make my own concoction with "a little of this and a little of that" (my motto) in soil, sand and rocks around the property. They need to also set out and form a callus over the part that came off the mother before you set them in soil so they don't just rot when you water them. This can take anywhere from days to a month. Wrong again! Maybe it was the desert climate here combined with laying on the concrete but they were already callused. Moving right along...I stuck them in the soil, watered and waited. After a week they didn't appear to be rotting and by week two they had roots!!! </span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJxIkRcmNEkZM4vPFIdc4sRgrSJ-klfZhZ-15EDVAcDhMLblu6uqqr1bImdak5FGMWTWfdV0DM05hDOZxTjCh0E6OQWDmspgKdgtuwtNC-Tj_SkNr0_8g6GTxqMKECNnrOEM1x0YO1FVmKBBPu8LJooF-A6hUadST0oOT5YDAT7kuCR02W1eNvIc781w/s4032/cactistart.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Planted cactus paddle in terracotta pot" border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJxIkRcmNEkZM4vPFIdc4sRgrSJ-klfZhZ-15EDVAcDhMLblu6uqqr1bImdak5FGMWTWfdV0DM05hDOZxTjCh0E6OQWDmspgKdgtuwtNC-Tj_SkNr0_8g6GTxqMKECNnrOEM1x0YO1FVmKBBPu8LJooF-A6hUadST0oOT5YDAT7kuCR02W1eNvIc781w/w640-h480/cactistart.jpeg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Father & Son</b></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-family: Poppins; font-size: medium;">And then those babies bloomed! </span></p><p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju6G1Mu7A7-Ug2_yUsb7Lut7gYg1Uf0A0e2Y69E7OFR4IZ7CDO21XUWwWsQnhsLLabf29uY4lbnky5eXjKNRkeGdmVDcOEutcYxKsfQnoK-_k5kYuRTMUvmnh3eSXlxiXQwa2507PDvdMrtot5JNc4rGHg_j6komoJIWFLEODy6aGhkPJeD4ul-0nqKQ/s4032/cactibloom.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Cactus planting the paddles and it blooming pink" border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju6G1Mu7A7-Ug2_yUsb7Lut7gYg1Uf0A0e2Y69E7OFR4IZ7CDO21XUWwWsQnhsLLabf29uY4lbnky5eXjKNRkeGdmVDcOEutcYxKsfQnoK-_k5kYuRTMUvmnh3eSXlxiXQwa2507PDvdMrtot5JNc4rGHg_j6komoJIWFLEODy6aGhkPJeD4ul-0nqKQ/w480-h640/cactibloom.jpeg" title="DIY Cactus from paddle, blooming pink" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>This was a tad disappointing as this is the full bloom <br />and not what looks to be a amazing bloom about to break forth!</b></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-family: Poppins; font-size: medium;"> Next I wanted a hanging basket of mint. In my previous setup, I had hanging baskets of various kinds of mint just outside my backdoor. My coffee/tea area was just inside the door, making it very easy to pick a couple of sprigs to throw in my coffee or tea. The Salty outside had already killed the herbs so I wanted to try the sunny frosted window in the kitchen. It's not that the air inside the house is any less salty really but there's less without the additional spray from the waves. I found a couple of baskets but needed a plastic saucer with high sides since they tilted. Nothing workable in the recycle stuff, but surely I had a container in the fridge I could cut down soon that would work. The basket was in-between size for store bought trays but really there sides weren't high enough anyway. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Poppins; font-size: medium;">Then I tried the <a href="https://bitchinsauce.com" target="_blank">Bitchin' Sauce</a> tub that I was nearly finished with and it fit like a glove! A perfect water tray! And the Costco super sized Bitchin' was the perfect size to re-pot the square potted herbs! It's so satisfying to reuse food containers, especially when it's a staple item. =) This one needed a video. </span></p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dyhz_zaz0FGjm6YhQo25XmI0yBHN1lo6MKA7Vtfoq7FUMwMWdq3jkM7PQc08GRcVILpdEUvLV9jZDyOykwP3Q' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p><span style="font-family: Poppins; font-size: medium;">When they cut back the coconut palms, they'd left me a couple stocks of green coconuts. I'd bought a nifty coconut opener on Amazon that is basically a corkscrew with a sharp end to pop the top. What I learned while opening green coconuts is all you need is a steak knife. It's like cutting into an apple. I also learned that you will get sprayed in the face, every single time. No matter where you do it or how slow. They are premature guys. No video for that one. There is so much yummy water in the green ones before they absorb it all and fully ripen into the brownish ones you see, which are more about the meat inside. </span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ9mJrlDe5Zl92UyzC47h-B92YSLLYM2F41RP_8hbBW1gU7UXUMHrHIkEfJeW3YKuInTmJBlKV2CckMA20KDGhbDFKJKqumKY39LD-kHSLDG7PecOvyx2j1RZFoZAF7yaZhDv6hvDIXCTahxvDYiXZKtH9qVxsMXSPtjX3XD2BV-7FpvvnRw2EZzDQGg/s4032/gettingcoconutwater.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="green coconuts cut open at the top" border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ9mJrlDe5Zl92UyzC47h-B92YSLLYM2F41RP_8hbBW1gU7UXUMHrHIkEfJeW3YKuInTmJBlKV2CckMA20KDGhbDFKJKqumKY39LD-kHSLDG7PecOvyx2j1RZFoZAF7yaZhDv6hvDIXCTahxvDYiXZKtH9qVxsMXSPtjX3XD2BV-7FpvvnRw2EZzDQGg/w480-h640/gettingcoconutwater.jpeg" title="green coconuts cut open at the top" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Pop the top stem and cut a hole in the middle...mind the overspray.</b></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-family: Poppins; font-size: medium;">Choke full of water and a surprise days later when the water I'd collected from a few coconuts had turned PINK! I looked this up immediately. I had seen pink coconut water in the store but never from the fresh out the coconut kind. Oxidation and the sugar content are the culprits, which is why it started out clear and gradually got more pink...or should I say more beautiful. Another reuse...those Costco vodka and gin containers. This was someone else's!! I have a cocktail about 5 times a year these days. haha </span><span style="font-family: Poppins; font-size: large;">It was too cool of a glass container just to toss in the garbage. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioY25Axsuh3qRkE0ORjzZQr6NlvNSJedo8_7xZsyODu8a-Va582aOq4LmmX5Ivzz5Ifdo2hangN7pMBG3hOjCukDq0XWpny9TjFCRf6MQOH47K7-69Ho-BkPovpFglPLpH05q9VWZlCy5DNa5mOX-tL1SVTd_2XG3lF9-0nzM9TwhBmgv-smJ9Hh45EA/s4032/Coconutwater.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="reuse alcohol bottles pink coconut water" border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioY25Axsuh3qRkE0ORjzZQr6NlvNSJedo8_7xZsyODu8a-Va582aOq4LmmX5Ivzz5Ifdo2hangN7pMBG3hOjCukDq0XWpny9TjFCRf6MQOH47K7-69Ho-BkPovpFglPLpH05q9VWZlCy5DNa5mOX-tL1SVTd_2XG3lF9-0nzM9TwhBmgv-smJ9Hh45EA/w480-h640/Coconutwater.jpeg" title="pink coconut water in reused glass containers" width="480" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Wander Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14596972014597608968noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8858322448545526754.post-67494492648390043992022-02-22T14:22:00.023-10:002022-11-09T20:43:23.400-10:00Truly A Two's Day! <p> <span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgjHLf6PWlXwCRA82EOAquc0J4Vxj0W9iSnvIj5hp0pp2MZJPFLYEWbx0RX9_YC_6_HTsDf4oZMetVexyoFfkMfcxdN4dCysCz0d_9ATCe5D-8TnlHg69zU0zT4vhygYyYPphzMprxImhTPxZ-2xRO-D5b1laPLq3tWIKwF_Vg83A-TBmVRAN4epnJQrw=s2048" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Double waterfall in Kauai Hawaii" border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgjHLf6PWlXwCRA82EOAquc0J4Vxj0W9iSnvIj5hp0pp2MZJPFLYEWbx0RX9_YC_6_HTsDf4oZMetVexyoFfkMfcxdN4dCysCz0d_9ATCe5D-8TnlHg69zU0zT4vhygYyYPphzMprxImhTPxZ-2xRO-D5b1laPLq3tWIKwF_Vg83A-TBmVRAN4epnJQrw=w640-h426" title="Double waterfall Kauai Hawaii (C) Sarah Bello" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: large;">Happy Tuesday, truly a two’s day 2/22/22</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: large;"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I’m just a little bit jealous of anyone born on this day, getting married or really anything else with a celebration in print. If only I was able to renew my drivers license today to have all those 2’s on something legit.</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Two, Dois, Due, Duex, Duo, Elua, Twee, Tva, Zwei, =, ll</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It’s how much in cents your personal opinion is worth. When children figure out they have a will of their own. The max amount of notches we feel are acceptable to take someone down.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">And shit’s numerical name.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">But then there is pair, couple, duet and two of a kind…<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span>I’ve been living on an Island for 2 years now. 4,252 miles from my previous residence.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><span>2 thousand of those miles being vast open ocean. </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>I’ve lived on an Island many times before throughout my life but this time around was an entirely fresh adventure. Perhaps part of it was age and the changing of one’s priorities. Perhaps it was a pandemic that plagued me with the virus not once but twice! The sickest I’ve ever been, the worst I’ve ever felt and the most scared I’ve ever been…and yet…I’d go through it again to know the other year and a half of experiences and the river of hope that continues to supply my days.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The beauty and strength of gentleness, the quiet peace of patience, the unmovable trust of faith and filled to overflowing of the greatest of these, Love.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I experienced Love at 38 years old. Sure I’d said it lots of times before then but it was the knowledge of Love, the longing for it that uttered those words. I’d heard throughout my life “well, there are different kinds of Love”. I come out of agreement with that. It lets you justify there are levels of love which introduces confusion…is this love? I love chocolate and I love my grandmother are surely not the same love? There’s Love and there’s not love. Almost love is still not love. ‘Kind of’ is ‘sort of’ and still <i>not</i> love.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">My previous installments of ‘sort of’ Love in hindsight (20/20) was more akin to caring, duty, and again longing for it. It was a matter of principles or loyalty to the fact that, well I said it so I can’t take it back, rather than anything true and selfless. I knew it existed despite my continuous failed attempts.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I tried pretending, considering myself an expert in the world of make believe, having spent so much of my life there. It’s a nice place to visit, until I realized it’s main exports are distraction and escape. Shouldn’t I be enjoying the living while I’m still living? Pretend love is, you guessed it, also not love.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="s1" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhxPR5NC7dUXSbC0-NO6CZVrOJy-FSzrRWdsb-gkf-lr2hA16U2Vj1FrMrlFNW2F3-DwwvSK--A54ax36Sw1jzo1TRX6gqND4RxuEr7nelOO8y9l2c2ScDvm2i9HCnvZQY_viSY72HfuOeOGJLWxG9hnsC8-kKDvf8FI8yiVp8oVlgYOkwDPSBp9hiIiQ=s2048" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Pair of red hanging heliconia flowers in Hawaii" border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1365" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhxPR5NC7dUXSbC0-NO6CZVrOJy-FSzrRWdsb-gkf-lr2hA16U2Vj1FrMrlFNW2F3-DwwvSK--A54ax36Sw1jzo1TRX6gqND4RxuEr7nelOO8y9l2c2ScDvm2i9HCnvZQY_viSY72HfuOeOGJLWxG9hnsC8-kKDvf8FI8yiVp8oVlgYOkwDPSBp9hiIiQ=w426-h640" title="Red hanging heliconia Hawaii (C) Sarah Bello" width="426" /></a></span></span></div><span class="s1" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /></span></span></span><p></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This post took a turn I was not expecting. Sometimes when I don’t know what to write about, I begin typing enthusiastically and see what springs forth.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I was listening to love songs today (Particularly Eva Cassidy, John Denver, Both Elvis’s: <i>The </i>and<i> Costello</i>). Not songs of loss like most love songs are, but songs of <i>loving</i>. Songs that before my experience of love didn’t get past the first layer. </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Now the experience is something else entirely that I am still surprised by and can't quite articulate yet.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">While various emotions and human experiences may fill you up for a time, love fills to overflowing. Love flows through you from a higher place that is infinite. It pours out your heart, your pores, your eyes, your mouth and extends to cover everyone around you. You want to improve the lives of anyone breathing, even the jerks. You suddenly understand why people have babies and even, more than one baby. Because it’s so enormous and glorious, you are compelled to share it. And it's the only thing that actually gets bigger when you give it away.</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I was not an A student when it came to the essay. I vaguely remember it was the conclusion that my professor could never find. Well, it’s because nothing is ever concluded!<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This is ongoing, there is no conclusion. =)<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">But I will end with this hope I have for you the reader.</span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I hope you were encouraged. Please know the experience far surpasses the knowledge.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Early to late bloomers alike find Love to always be right on time. I hope for you the filled to overflowing experience of love.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><div class="bible-item-title-wrap col-sm-3" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 1 1 20%; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; max-width: 225px; min-width: 175px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding-right: 20px;"><a class="bible-item-title" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20John%203%3A18&version=AMP" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; min-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-size: medium;">1 John 3:18</span></a></div><p class="p3" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">D</span></span><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial">ear ones, let us not</span><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial"> </span><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial">love</span><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial"> </span><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial">merely in theory, with word or with tongue [giving lip service to compassion], but in action and in truth, in practice and in sincerity, because practical acts of</span><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial"> </span><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial">love</span><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial"> </span><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial">are more than words.</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"></span></span></p><p class="p3" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 16px;">Colossians 3:14</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 16px;">Beyond all these things put on </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">and</span><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 16px;"> wrap yourselves in unselfish love, which is the perfect bond of unity for everything is bound together in agreement when each one seeks the best for others. </span></p><p class="p3" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px;"><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p4" style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">1 Corinthians 16:14<span class="s2" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"></span></span></span></p><p class="p4" style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Let everything you do be done in love.</span></span></p><p class="p3" style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I want to be spilled out, I want to be spilled out</span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I want to go all out in my love for you</span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span><i>Beau Maddox “Keep My Heart Tender”</i></span></span></p><p class="p3" style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px;"><span class="s1" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p>Wander Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14596972014597608968noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8858322448545526754.post-62192205912695780792021-12-16T19:18:00.003-10:002024-01-27T16:00:41.274-10:00Invisible Wonders <p><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhQ8IV0OBFmd8lhpoEeuZj6O08zahwFjggsxYNodv4JURS83Lt-8HgAUC76gr2bXapheTTp4BaPuqiSqH1H2y-1GNye16GtlZ4kmIjw7UZj_GMxMeHooZfgV6M6cuTXC2jeDO1s_rSeP9PO8L6cwxqpdNmFpBryQ6p6fkrF9eoAA6MPei6A7ucmq0HDOA=s2831" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Rainbow over the ocean Big Island Hawaii" border="0" data-original-height="2710" data-original-width="2831" height="383" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhQ8IV0OBFmd8lhpoEeuZj6O08zahwFjggsxYNodv4JURS83Lt-8HgAUC76gr2bXapheTTp4BaPuqiSqH1H2y-1GNye16GtlZ4kmIjw7UZj_GMxMeHooZfgV6M6cuTXC2jeDO1s_rSeP9PO8L6cwxqpdNmFpBryQ6p6fkrF9eoAA6MPei6A7ucmq0HDOA=w400-h383" title="Rainbow over the ocean, Hawaii" width="400" /></a></span></div><span><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;">The usual late afternoon heat has surrendered to the cool breeze of late autumn. </span></span><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;"><span>The perfect in every way air embrace that my skin waits all year for. When the invisible wonders of peace and temperature float along side each other and wash over you in the gentlest of waves.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><p></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;">The ocean is calm today after a week of unusual storms and blustery days. The humpback whales have returned for the season. I find my eyes search for their evanescent fountains every time I glance out at the sea. Great whites have also returned and I haven’t been in the water since the sighting of a 15ft dinosaur descendent 1 mile down the coast from me.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;">Last week my left hand found itself caught between a window frame and large sliding window.</span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;">I’ve been doing everything one handed as the bruises, that I hope are not sheltering fractures, heal. I stripped and made a kingsize bed with one hand then made an espresso which made me think I was some kind of undiscovered superhero. Wrangling the Mastiff proved more difficult, and I kind of gave up fixing my hair but I adjusted to the rest of the daily needs. But even in my “everything’s okay, I’m fine thanks” superhero independence I had to let people help me this week. I said yes, to the kind Costco employee you offered to follow me all the way out to the back of the parking lot (because I never park close) and put the 40lb bag of dog food in my truck. Although I did say no when he offered to push the cart too. “I’m fine, thanks!”, as I used all my body weight against it. I managed to get the giant bag into the bottom of my shopping cart after an embarrassing amount of time one handed but I’ll admit I was a tad concerned about the cart to truck transfer. I said okay to my dad carrying a few large items for me. I said okay when my sister offered to braid my hair. (Or perhaps the state of my hair was crying out to her for help)</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;">My sister moved back to the mainland this week. We had been leaning on each other far more than I realized until she left the island. And this considerable wave of sadness capsized me into a sea of jellyfish. I’m alone again, it’s nearly the end of the year, all the things I thought might happen didn’t happen, and my hand hurts.</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;">Often rest is all I want when there’s chaos and yet still so hard to surrender to when it shows up. </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span>This breeze though, this gentle perfect breeze becomes everything I need in the present.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><span>It swirls with peace and dives down deep into my lungs. It rests my muscles and eases my mind. And all the heavily detailed worries and cares of only moments ago become a Monet.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;">I don’t have to be perfect to feel it. I don’t have to be ready and capable and strong. I can be wounded and weak and heart broken and let it take it all off my shoulders until I’m weightless.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;">May peace rest upon you wherever you are.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;"><i>Psalm 61:2-4 (AMP)</i></span></span></p><p class="p3" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;"><i>From the end of the earth I call to You,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></i></span></span></p><p class="p3" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;"><i>when my heart is overwhelmed and weak;</i></span></span></p><p class="p3" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;"><i>Lead me to the rock that is higher than I<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></i></span></span></p><p class="p3" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;"><i>A rock that is too high to reach without Your help.</i></span></span></p><p class="p3" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;"><i>For You have been a shelter and a refuge for me,</i></span></span></p><p class="p3" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;"><i>A strong tower against the enemy.</i></span></span></p><p class="p3" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;"><i>Let me dwell in Your tent forever;</i></span></span></p><p class="p3" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;"><i>Let me take refuge in the shelter of Your wings.</i></span></span></p><p class="p4" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;"><i><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></i></span></p><p class="p3" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;"><i>Philippians 4:6-8 (TPT)</i></span></span></p><p class="p3" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;"><i>Don’t be pulled in different directions or worried about a thing.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></i></span></span></p><p class="p3" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;"><i>Be saturated in prayer throughout each day, offering your faith-filled requests </i></span></span></p><p class="p3" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span>before God<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><span>with overflowing gratitude. Tell him every detail of your life, </span></span></i></p><p class="p3" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;">then God’s wonderful peace that transcends human understanding, </span></i></p><p class="p3" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;">will guard your heart and mind through Jesus Christ. </span></i></p><p class="p3" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;"><i>Keep your thoughts continually fixed on all that is authentic and real, </i></span></span></p><p class="p3" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;"><i>honorable and admirable, beautiful and respectful, pure and holy, merciful and kind. And fasten your thoughts on every glorious work of God, praising him always.</i></span></span></p>Wander Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14596972014597608968noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8858322448545526754.post-69449621689421808132021-09-10T14:52:00.015-10:002021-12-07T21:43:21.515-10:00Jade, My Beautiful Song<p><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-64JKkaBAgRk/YTvvrMsTbGI/AAAAAAAAFLc/pgere3Gydo4zGWjRG6pMInpbreGtsrkogCLcBGAsYHQ/s1072/Scan%2B3.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="914" data-original-width="1072" height="341" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-64JKkaBAgRk/YTvvrMsTbGI/AAAAAAAAFLc/pgere3Gydo4zGWjRG6pMInpbreGtsrkogCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h341/Scan%2B3.jpeg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Silver Jacket Street Jewels </td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">When I was 11 years old, I met a girl named Jade. We were instantly inseparable. She was everything I lacked and wished that I was. She was outgoing, loud, and said everything she thought. She would sing to anyone and everyone. The kind of friend that would yell out “my friend thinks you’re cute” at the boy that just walked by at the mall that you thought was cute causing you to hide behind her and be totally mortified. It was never to be cruel, she just constantly encouraged me to live out loud. She was the vibrant and beautiful soul vital to a painfully shy and quiet one.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The only times in my youth that I ever sang in front of other people was when Jade was standing beside me. It came easy for her and it wasn’t as terrifying for me in her shadow. We sang together every time we were together. Singing and training dogs were our big big dreams. We made dog training obstacle courses in my backyard and in hers. It consisted mostly of wood planks or large branches we’d lay across stacked concrete blocks. We’d run and jump over these courses along side our Labrador mixes.</span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">We wrote our own songs and also sang along to cassette tapes. I’d created a mini makeshift recording studio with a large duel cassette boombox with equalizer and a microphone from Radioshack. I’d turn down the vocals with the equalizer and we’d just sing loud over them. We’d setup elaborate photoshoots around my house for our album covers. Hanging quilts off my bunkbed was a classic backdrop. We'd make detailed cassette jackets with the photos and credit pages with "We'd like to thank..." and everything. The hardest part was probably waiting weeks for the photos to develop. It was the early 1990’s and we wore acid washed jeans and a lot of hats and sunglasses. We had a very long list of possible band names and yet ended up with Silver Jacket Street Jewels. Everything on the list was a combination of a J word and a S word for our initials.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Neither of our parents let us listen to secular music so we sang a lot of Twila Paris and later Amy Grant. But we both had stashes…music recorded from the radio mostly. It wasn’t cigarettes and lighters hidden in Converse boxes in the closet, it was cassette tapes. Jade loved Sinéad O’conner's “Black Boys on Mopeds”. She would sing it to my face dramatically until I sang along. </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"></span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DebE-DiItds/YTvwfSdZdkI/AAAAAAAAFLo/6AyQvseoXCk6m2p2DrowpdWWACcvlAXNACLcBGAsYHQ/s960/10356749_10204299339627740_3838521339002016830_n_10204299339627740.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="885" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DebE-DiItds/YTvwfSdZdkI/AAAAAAAAFLo/6AyQvseoXCk6m2p2DrowpdWWACcvlAXNACLcBGAsYHQ/w369-h400/10356749_10204299339627740_3838521339002016830_n_10204299339627740.jpg" width="369" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Laura, Jade and Rachel </td></tr></tbody></table><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">A couple of years later when Jade wasn’t allowed to come over to my house anymore, I was devastated. We still saw each other at church and I was allowed to go over to her house, but her parents thought I wasn’t a very good influence after Jade came home talking about boys and repeated some things I had said to one of the boys at my school about sex, on the phone of course, as I couldn’t talk to a boy in person EVER. I was so shy at school that there were rumors I was mute. </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">In hindsight it was all VERY PG, no not even PG, more like G but when it’s your 13 year old daughter, I get it now that it was a protective move. They loved her so much. And how were they to know the avalanche of actual bad influences that would come later.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">When we got separated we wrote letters. We continued to write songs and mail them to each other. And after her family moved to Colorado, we continued to write each other. We had a ongoing writing project in each letter, we’d write down a song title and each of us would write a song with that title in the next letter. We had so much fun reading what each other would come up with and how different they would be. We wrote hundreds of songs.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> I have converse boxes full of our letters. </span></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-size: medium;">Jade would speak truth to me when no one else would, and always had my back. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">She was the only one who told me that my high school boyfriend was cheating on me, hearing about it in Colorado, then she confronted him and gave him a verbal beatdown. </span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Jade called me once as an older teenager after running away from home. She was calling from a recording studio in Denver I think. She said her boyfriends band wanted to record one of my songs that she had shown them in one of my letters. I think it was a metal band and the song was super cheesy and I remember cringing that they'd even read it but Jade was always so encouraging and supportive. She was so excited. The call was brief and barely audible, possibly from a payphone. I didn’t hear from her again until years after that. She’d been through so many awful experiences out on her own and I feared for her when we'd catch up. But she would talk in a way like her stories happened to someone else and she didn’t need my help.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> I still thought she was so much stronger and braver than me. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: verdana;">We lost touch as adults and only talked a few times in the past 10 years.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Jade passed away yesterday. I went to sleep numb. I woke up flooded with memories. I had just talked about her a couple days prior. I hadn’t thought of those times of our youth in so long.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">I went up to the coffee farm, walked through the trees and listened to Twila Paris and weeped for my dear friend.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Under the canopy of my prayer tree I looked down and saw this flower… the only one around. It was her in so may ways, bold, vibrant and audacious. We had flowers like these in the midwest as kids. I’m so grateful for our friendship and those childhood memories. Thank you Jade for being my sweet sweet song. My creative partner and champion. My life was better just knowing you. </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">I know you are singing with angels.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FYFlmPPJUWE/YTvwWQr1HyI/AAAAAAAAFLk/3sEVL_33LE87TFTIX9VhfywIl-CEj1mlACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG-5573.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Jade Austin, My Beautiful Song By Sarah Bello" border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FYFlmPPJUWE/YTvwWQr1HyI/AAAAAAAAFLk/3sEVL_33LE87TFTIX9VhfywIl-CEj1mlACLcBGAsYHQ/w300-h400/IMG-5573.jpg" width="300" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /></span></span><p></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: times;">Jade used to love to sing this, she could always sing so much higher than me. </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: times;">except from “How Beautiful” Twila Paris<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="background-color: white; color: #18191b; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: medium;">How beautiful the tender eyes</span></span></p><p class="p3" style="background-color: white; color: #18191b; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: medium;">That choose to forgive and never despise</span></span></p><p class="p3" style="background-color: white; color: #18191b; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: medium;">How beautiful, how beautiful, how beautiful</span></span></p><p class="p3" style="background-color: white; color: #18191b; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: medium;">Is the body of Christ</span></span></p><p class="p4" style="background-color: white; color: #18191b; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="background-color: white; color: #18191b; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: medium;">And as he lay down his life</span></span></p><p class="p3" style="background-color: white; color: #18191b; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: medium;">We offer this sacrifice</span></span></p><p class="p3" style="background-color: white; color: #18191b; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: medium;">That we will live just as he died</span></span></p><p class="p3" style="background-color: white; color: #18191b; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: medium;">Willing to pay the price</span></span></p><p class="p3" style="background-color: white; color: #18191b; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: medium;">Willing to pay the price</span></span></p><p class="p4" style="background-color: white; color: #18191b; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="background-color: white; color: #18191b; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: medium;">How beautiful the radiant bride</span></span></p><p class="p3" style="background-color: white; color: #18191b; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: medium;">Who waits for her groom with his light in her eyes</span></span></p><p class="p3" style="background-color: white; color: #18191b; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: medium;">How beautiful when humble hearts give</span></span></p><p class="p3" style="background-color: white; color: #18191b; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: medium;">The fruit of pure lives so that others may live</span></span></p><p class="p3" style="background-color: white; color: #18191b; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: medium;">How beautiful, how beautiful, how beautiful</span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Dancing Script;"><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></span></p><p class="p3" style="background-color: white; color: #18191b; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: medium;">Is the body of Christ</span></span></p><p class="p3" style="background-color: white; color: #18191b; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="background-color: white; color: #18191b; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="background-color: white; color: #18191b; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Twila Paris - How Beautiful (Live)</span></p><p class="p3" style="background-color: white; color: #18191b; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="s1" style="color: #18191b; font-family: Arial; font-kerning: none; font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/QZ3SrJ-3VSE">https://youtu.be/QZ3SrJ-3VSE</a></span></p><p class="p3" style="background-color: white; color: #18191b; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="background-color: white; color: #18191b; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/QZ3SrJ-3VSE" width="320" youtube-src-id="QZ3SrJ-3VSE"></iframe></div><p></p><p class="p3" style="background-color: white; color: #18191b; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="background-color: white; color: #18191b; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Sinead O'Conner - Black Boys on Mopeds (Live)</span></p><p class="p3" style="background-color: white; color: #18191b; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="s1" style="color: #18191b; font-family: Arial; font-kerning: none; font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/n14lwdpYkAA">https://youtu.be/n14lwdpYkAA</a></span></p><p class="p3" style="background-color: white; color: #18191b; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="background-color: white; color: #18191b; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/n14lwdpYkAA" width="320" youtube-src-id="n14lwdpYkAA"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I woke up hearing parts of 1 Corinthians 12 on Thursday Morning, the day Jade died. After listening to songs we sung as kids all day and thinking about her the last couple of days, I felt that I heard it for a reason.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="text 1Cor-12-14" id="en-AMP-28649" style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">1 Corinthians 12:14-26 </span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="text 1Cor-12-14" style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"> For the human body does not consist of one part, but of many. </span><span class="text 1Cor-12-14" style="background-color: white; text-align: start;">I</span><span class="text 1Cor-12-15" id="en-AMP-28650" style="background-color: white; text-align: start;">f the foot says, “Because I am not a hand, I am not <i>a part</i> of the body,” is it not on the contrary still <i>a part</i> of the body? </span><span class="text 1Cor-12-16" id="en-AMP-28651" style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;"> </span>If the ear says, “Because I am not an eye, I am not <i>a part</i> of the body,” is it not on the contrary still <i>a part</i> of the body? </span><span class="text 1Cor-12-17" id="en-AMP-28652" style="background-color: white; text-align: start;">If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="text 1Cor-12-17" style="background-color: white; text-align: start;">If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be? </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="text 1Cor-12-18" id="en-AMP-28653" style="background-color: white; text-align: start;">But now as things really are, God has placed <i>and</i> arranged the parts in the body, each one of them, just as He willed <i>and</i> saw fit with the best balance of function.</span><span class="text 1Cor-12-19" id="en-AMP-28654" style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;"> </span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="text 1Cor-12-19" style="background-color: white; text-align: start;">If they all were a single <i>organ</i>, where would [the rest of] the body be? </span><span class="text 1Cor-12-20" id="en-AMP-28655" style="background-color: white; text-align: start;">But now [as things really are] there are many parts [different limbs and organs], but a single body. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="text 1Cor-12-21" id="en-AMP-28656" style="background-color: white; text-align: start;">The eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you,” nor again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.” </span><span class="text 1Cor-12-22" id="en-AMP-28657" style="background-color: white; text-align: start;">But quite the contrary, the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are absolutely necessary; </span><span class="text 1Cor-12-23" id="en-AMP-28658" style="background-color: white; text-align: start;">and as for those <i>parts</i> of the body which we consider less honorable, these we treat with greater honor; and our less presentable parts are treated with greater modesty, </span><span class="text 1Cor-12-24" id="en-AMP-28659" style="background-color: white; text-align: start;">while our more presentable parts do not require it. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="text 1Cor-12-24" style="background-color: white; text-align: start;">But God has combined the whole body, giving greater honor to that part which lacks it, </span><span class="text 1Cor-12-25" id="en-AMP-28660" style="background-color: white; text-align: start;">so that there would be no division <i>or</i> discord in the body, but that the parts may have the same concern for one another. </span><span class="text 1Cor-12-26" id="en-AMP-28661" style="background-color: white; text-align: start;">And if one member suffers, all the parts share the suffering; if one member is honored, all rejoice with it.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span><p></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /></span></span></p>Wander Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14596972014597608968noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8858322448545526754.post-29259604300100519002021-08-23T16:43:00.007-10:002024-01-27T15:59:09.423-10:00Honua‘ula Forest Reserve - Big Island Hiking - Makaula-'o'oma Trails <p> </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jGNK94uRJKw/YSRV0ZCeIpI/AAAAAAAAFJk/Ci4q9JW16FE6Hmv1uTX1Bnd0cFpKgta9wCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/_SDB8842.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Honua‘ula Forest Reserve hiking trail Kona Big Island Hawaii" border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jGNK94uRJKw/YSRV0ZCeIpI/AAAAAAAAFJk/Ci4q9JW16FE6Hmv1uTX1Bnd0cFpKgta9wCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h426/_SDB8842.jpg" title="Honua‘ula Forest Reserve Sarah Bello" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: Poppins;">Up above Kailua Kona is a cloud forrest much like the kind that you’d find at Volcanos National park. This reserve nestled at a high elevation on the slopes of Hualalai volcano invites you into cooler temperatures (68-72) than the sunny shores of Kona below. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Poppins;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5KpmwB0bd0A/YSRW9GOpO4I/AAAAAAAAFJs/nBMdCBA2j_wwbFHCA4FY8jhs0nIQL3KIQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/_SDB8864.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="mossy strump on the Honua‘ula Forest Reserve hiking trail Big Island hawaii" border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5KpmwB0bd0A/YSRW9GOpO4I/AAAAAAAAFJs/nBMdCBA2j_wwbFHCA4FY8jhs0nIQL3KIQCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h426/_SDB8864.jpg" title="Honua‘ula Forest Reserve (c) Sarah Bello" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Poppins;">A wet forrest to be sure as the trail is usually a little muddy and there is a fine mist or fog most days. If you attempt to come later in the day, it will probably be raining as most of upper Hualalai is beneath a rain cloud by late afternoon.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: Poppins;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Poppins;">There is an upper and lower option at the trailhead. It's 4.5 miles around the whole length or by section about 2 miles each. I’ve gotten lost once and it was because I left the trail to the wider path that frames it (the other side of this path is private property). There are stacked rocks at any crossroads and markers if you pay attention. =)<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Poppins;">There is also a map at the beginning of the trail and a quick snap of it, if you have your phone or digital camera with you, is a recommended move.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> I've also attached a photo of the new map below that was upgraded this year (2022).</span></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Poppins;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Poppins;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Poppins;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6n2LVs4yGSg/YSRXUQOokmI/AAAAAAAAFJ0/rVO9xtchyC8kKjsIJ40vOnV4l47QvIfgwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/_SDB8851.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Honua‘ula Forest Reserve Big Island Hawaii trees" border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1365" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6n2LVs4yGSg/YSRXUQOokmI/AAAAAAAAFJ0/rVO9xtchyC8kKjsIJ40vOnV4l47QvIfgwCLcBGAsYHQ/w426-h640/_SDB8851.jpg" title="Tree bark Sarah Bello" width="426" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: Poppins;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4GXvhxr8Iuk/YSRXo7wCCnI/AAAAAAAAFJ8/j7kN4nylCy4CBTnPoZajDMBlnF7wITE9gCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/_SDB8856.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Honua‘ula Forest Reserve cloud forrest Hawaii" border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4GXvhxr8Iuk/YSRXo7wCCnI/AAAAAAAAFJ8/j7kN4nylCy4CBTnPoZajDMBlnF7wITE9gCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h426/_SDB8856.jpg" title="Honua‘ula Forest Reserve Sarah Bello" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-73DCwstB7Us/YSRYCTDbWFI/AAAAAAAAFKE/ApGx-MclEWQQiwISv9hDqx1WXMp9HM1ewCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/_SDB8875.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Honua‘ula Forest Reserve Trail hiking Hawaii Kona" border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1365" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-73DCwstB7Us/YSRYCTDbWFI/AAAAAAAAFKE/ApGx-MclEWQQiwISv9hDqx1WXMp9HM1ewCLcBGAsYHQ/w426-h640/_SDB8875.jpg" title="Honua‘ula Forest Reserve Sarah Bello" width="426" /></a></div><br /></span><p></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Poppins;">The songs of birds harmonizing with the insects is the soundtrack that plays when you arrive. The sweet smell of Kahili Ginger takes the soft hand of the cool air that slowly dances down your lungs and fills you with peace. Roots reach down the path creating steps that lead the way into this wonderland of giant ferns, moss covered stumps, tropical flowers and ohi’a trees.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Poppins;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Poppins;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Poppins;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WkHmbwPhqis/YSRYjuKcBqI/AAAAAAAAFKU/DcXA10sboucsXU1_4M8ODEWNj37OlGfzgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/_SDB8900.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Kahili Ginger flower in the Honua‘ula Forest Hawaii" border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1365" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WkHmbwPhqis/YSRYjuKcBqI/AAAAAAAAFKU/DcXA10sboucsXU1_4M8ODEWNj37OlGfzgCLcBGAsYHQ/w426-h640/_SDB8900.jpg" title="Kahili Ginger (c) Sarah Bello" width="426" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Poppins;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Poppins;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Poppins;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2vtBi8Nh6KY/YSRYShA_YLI/AAAAAAAAFKM/d2RHTYf-I_gROI7HUJAgJNeRTEUH7HhswCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/_SDB8895.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Honua‘ula Forest Hawaii moss" border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1365" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2vtBi8Nh6KY/YSRYShA_YLI/AAAAAAAAFKM/d2RHTYf-I_gROI7HUJAgJNeRTEUH7HhswCLcBGAsYHQ/w426-h640/_SDB8895.jpg" title="Honua‘ula Forest Sarah Bello" width="426" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: Poppins;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Poppins;">Dewdrops and rain drops caught in the fuzzy moss sparkle like precious stones. Endless textures mix with golds and fully saturated greens.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: Poppins;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Poppins;">Outside amongst nature offers infinite places for rest and for quiet. Honua’ula forest holds out the offer of tranquility to it’s visitors. You can breathe here and let everything else fall away.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Poppins;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Poppins;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Poppins;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-B6KmtPeNSfY/YSRY7Rudg6I/AAAAAAAAFKc/DTvUK60J6NwgduTSwYVvussX17Zqkp6egCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/_SDB8919.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Kahili Ginger Hawaii" border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-B6KmtPeNSfY/YSRY7Rudg6I/AAAAAAAAFKc/DTvUK60J6NwgduTSwYVvussX17Zqkp6egCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h426/_SDB8919.jpg" title="Kahili Ginger Hawaii Sarah Bello" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: Poppins;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KS1il1vz3x4/YSRY7nqCLKI/AAAAAAAAFKk/nXSwee8fhd0jXBKPWv9xwO2o3ZznreQCwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/_SDB8927.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="forest of yellow Kahili Ginger in Hawaii" border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KS1il1vz3x4/YSRY7nqCLKI/AAAAAAAAFKk/nXSwee8fhd0jXBKPWv9xwO2o3ZznreQCwCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h426/_SDB8927.jpg" title="Kahili Ginger Hawaii (c) Sarah Bello" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Kplon-Mtyzs/YSRY7tpAf5I/AAAAAAAAFKg/qt0W9r3LQGMPXWHjnOULDuX-u983rwqZwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/_SDB8905.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Kahili Ginger on the Big Island of Hawaii" border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Kplon-Mtyzs/YSRY7tpAf5I/AAAAAAAAFKg/qt0W9r3LQGMPXWHjnOULDuX-u983rwqZwCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h426/_SDB8905.jpg" title="Kahili Ginger Hawaii (c) Sarah Bello" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsa_xrILPRPEmZLXAten7txbqDLI8SdXjoO_9rdqLotroebunx46I-TUGMUA5USAMyvBss6Wpv6abMQFNuR7L6BquPCB1zBU3xmIHmhUYZV_gbTMJnRe1m0QgKE1ZxS0E5BfEcokd4l0je-eGup09Pa_I0E2mTM-Y4W9aqpZ5IquZb4SypsioVf8Dx7A/s1832/1-1.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Honua'ula Forest Reserve Map" border="0" data-original-height="1374" data-original-width="1832" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsa_xrILPRPEmZLXAten7txbqDLI8SdXjoO_9rdqLotroebunx46I-TUGMUA5USAMyvBss6Wpv6abMQFNuR7L6BquPCB1zBU3xmIHmhUYZV_gbTMJnRe1m0QgKE1ZxS0E5BfEcokd4l0je-eGup09Pa_I0E2mTM-Y4W9aqpZ5IquZb4SypsioVf8Dx7A/w640-h480/1-1.jpeg" title="Honua'ula Forest Reserve Map" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNKpAY8qM6dPRUgY69x_2uiyUqIc0RABFvxklf2J0Rp7pnsLXvAZSEt02ai97wgNmV5V8crO9nVppOUvA8rmFaJgUWpSdZVP_n8vmuKIl0-LrWKZezQL_gbYoyZdrDaklvA-WzlyhJK2R8GeT4P0SE3yPlgeSPHTDr-jxxOLsh_dwmEzSSaQXuty0nIA/s1374/1.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Honua'ula Forest Reserve Map" border="0" data-original-height="1374" data-original-width="1030" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNKpAY8qM6dPRUgY69x_2uiyUqIc0RABFvxklf2J0Rp7pnsLXvAZSEt02ai97wgNmV5V8crO9nVppOUvA8rmFaJgUWpSdZVP_n8vmuKIl0-LrWKZezQL_gbYoyZdrDaklvA-WzlyhJK2R8GeT4P0SE3yPlgeSPHTDr-jxxOLsh_dwmEzSSaQXuty0nIA/w480-h640/1.jpeg" title="Honua'ula Forest Reserve Map" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /></span></span><p></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"> </span></p>Wander Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14596972014597608968noreply@blogger.com1Island of Hawai'i, Hawaii, USA19.5429151 -155.6658568-20.062966437062794 134.0216432 59.148796637062787 -85.3533568tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8858322448545526754.post-46745038260997009162021-08-05T18:02:00.004-10:002022-11-01T07:25:07.483-10:00Take this Heart of Stone<p> </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xKAp7BoOtiI/YQysk0kRtmI/AAAAAAAAFIo/qx81j8WHdU83_uF6gLxv9TW6JIHhA0mCgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1800/SDB6811-1sm.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="heart of stone to a heart of flesh, transformation" border="0" data-original-height="1679" data-original-width="1800" height="597" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xKAp7BoOtiI/YQysk0kRtmI/AAAAAAAAFIo/qx81j8WHdU83_uF6gLxv9TW6JIHhA0mCgCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h597/SDB6811-1sm.jpg" title="heart of stone" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px;">Yesterday evening as the sun began to set, I sat on a black jagged rock that was once red hot liquid. Transformed a few hundred years ago, unrecognizable as it's former self, by the cooling of the ocean. The water below me looked different than usual, a wind swell without the wind. The sun scatters across the thickening clouds searching for a place to break through. Tiny sparkles danced across patches of water like schools of fish quickly disappearing then reappearing in another location.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px;"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">The traffic jam of boats busting at the seams with snorkel affixed visitors were no longer seen to the farthest left nor the farthest right. Just like me, the ocean was recharging in their absence. Elegantly timed sets now a mosh pit. Each one jumping up to bump the other in white tipped peaks. I watched the underbelly of the clouds darken in full contrast from the sky above them. A butterfly fought the invisible force that suddenly stirred up the leaves of every shrub and every tree, awakening the coastline. The wind brought the soft pattering of rain as the droplets increased enough to collect in my open palms.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">It had been years since I let the rain soak me through. The beginning struck nerves with reactive tension in the same way being touched by a person used to feel. I needed to take deep breaths for it to subside, but it did subside. Tension released to a soothing rhythm. It washed over me with gentle mercy.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> My heart tender enough now to welcome this kindness. </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">I still rest in the swaddle as the light branches out from the core strengthening me by a new approach. The tiniest of shimmers slowly transforming it's neighbor and spreading out until they shine bright enough to break through to the surface. </span></p><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">My heart a lava rock in reverse.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”<br />― Lewis Carroll - <i>Alice in Wonderland </i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p3" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">And I will give them one heart, a new heart, and put a new spirit within them. I will take from them the heart of stone, and will give them a heart of flesh that is responsive to My touch. <i>Ezekiel 11:19</i></span></p>Wander Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14596972014597608968noreply@blogger.com2Hawaii, USA19.8967662 -155.5827818-8.4134676361788472 169.2609682 48.20700003617884 -120.42653179999999tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8858322448545526754.post-87459846071502929522021-04-28T13:48:00.014-10:002022-11-01T07:25:21.258-10:00Patience with Paws...really really Big Paws<p class="p1" style="font-family: Baskerville; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 27px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EKKFVGaUj_M/YInwgTiSSRI/AAAAAAAAFBY/a0UnnZ3eG2kUfwbxXFSyvij3czw44dUZACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_3886.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Patience with Dogs and waiting on God's Promises" border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2040" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EKKFVGaUj_M/YInwgTiSSRI/AAAAAAAAFBY/a0UnnZ3eG2kUfwbxXFSyvij3czw44dUZACLcBGAsYHQ/w399-h400/IMG_3886.jpeg" title="fila brasileiro and Sarah" width="399" /></a></div><p></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Baskerville; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 27px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Baskerville; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 27px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none; font-size: medium;">I have what anyone currently residing on planet earth would describe as a dream job. It chiefly involves working remotely from a house on the beach and looking after a very large, by all standards, dog. I’ve always loved dogs. The first “when I grow up” profession was Veterinarian before I learned what that job mostly consisted of. I’ve had many dogs throughout my life starting with a St. Bernard followed by a Golden Retriever whom gave me the scar I have on my cheek, Chow Chows, and Labradors. As an adult there were two, Zoe a Chihuahua mix and Patrick, a Toy Fox Terrier/ Jack Russell. I loved these dogs more than anyone I was in a relationship with. I would choose them over people in a heartbeat. They were there to snuggle with me through every heartbreak and every trauma. When Zoe died in 2015 shortly after suffering a stroke at the age of 18, it was the worst grief I’d ever been met with. I’d see her everywhere. When Patrick died in 2019, it was after a slew of awful events and I think I was too depleted to handle it. Both dogs had died in my arms. My arms were empty for the first time, I was alone. I had no desire to start over with another dog. All my friends had dogs I could look after, and that was enough.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: Baskerville; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-indent: 27px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Baskerville; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 27px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none; font-size: medium;">Enter the panther...IE Fila Brasileiro (Mastiff)<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Baskerville; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 27px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Baskerville; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 27px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none; font-size: medium;">Some people come into your life to shake you up or turn your world upside down. I’m coming to realize the same can be said for animals. Even as I’m writing this, he is chewing on my arm. He studies my face. If my face is frustrated, irritated or anything other than smiling, the challenge is on. Bite and bark until I get up from that chair. He despises my cellphone. As soon as I pick it up, the challenge is back. If I’m talking on it, he barks, a loud bellowing you can’t possible hear over this bark. If I’m texting he bites my ankles, harder and harder until I yelp.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Baskerville; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 27px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Baskerville; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 27px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none; font-size: medium;">It’s not that he’s a bad dog. He’s in fact a good dog. I’ve gone through training with him. He knows how to sit, stay, lay down, shakes with the left or the right whichever I ask for and heals. He walks well on a leash, and he barks at strangers near the house but not on walks. He’s gentle with older people and with younger people. And though not my dog, he has bonded to me. He knows I am the bringer of food, but I have also been deemed his playmate in life. And he wants to spend all our mornings and evenings wrestling.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Baskerville; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 27px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Baskerville; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 27px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none; font-size: medium;">He surpassed me in size about 2 months ago. He has about 20 lbs on me now. My shoulders and arms have muscles appearing from simply handling him, usually in quick defense moves. My torso and legs are covered in bruises, often times just from run ins or him stepping on my feet. He has the Karate Kid move down and sweeps the leg while I'm walking to the kitchen. Let me set the scene... it's early am, I'm walking to the kitchen to make coffee, he walks directly behind me, then he quickly hooks one leg with his bear size paw and pulls out. And in my head he then laughs and laughs. Though technically still a puppy at 8 months, his size could be described as pony,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>jungle cat or velociraptor.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Baskerville; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 27px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Baskerville; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 27px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none; font-size: medium;">For about 4 years now I’ve been waiting for a promise to come to pass. I’ve been reading until my eyes blur on waiting vs patience. Waiting is sitting around frustrated with a big maybe, while patience is expectant with a willingness to wait as long as it takes. Patience does not come easily. Patience is a consistent work in you. Consistent. If you had asked me prior to now if I was a patient person I would have foolishly said, absolutely! My pet velociraptor knows otherwise. He doesn’t chew my arm to harm me. He chews my arm because he wants my attention and it is consistent. He doesn’t understand why I would sit at a computer for hours if I’m not chewing on it. I can throw the bouncy balls and fill the Kong with almond butter and excitedly offer the marrow bones but he will choose my arm or my ankles first. He wants a personal relationship with me. Much like a small child, he is teaching me patience.</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Baskerville; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 27px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none; font-size: medium;"> And what a difference it makes when you recognize these challenges that are actually stimulating growth. What a wonderful gift it is to grow, to move in new ways with patience. When you can shift your focus off the frustration and on to the favor and the grace. When I typed that he jumped over the back of my chair, put his front paws around me almost as if hugging me, I smiled and then he bit my head. Consistent.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p>Wander Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14596972014597608968noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8858322448545526754.post-515348114542998062020-08-11T00:54:00.011-10:002023-05-12T13:28:51.165-10:00The Moniker - Jesse Daniel Edwards as Juni Ata <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0jJEGiS6S9E/XyifD-5ab5I/AAAAAAAAExQ/N_JFqGMh7mUByDArKwXXnOex-fKrdpQTwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/JDEfeb22-6.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="black and white of Jesse Daniel Edwards in Nashville Photographer Sarah Bello" border="0" data-original-height="1339" data-original-width="2048" height="418" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0jJEGiS6S9E/XyifD-5ab5I/AAAAAAAAExQ/N_JFqGMh7mUByDArKwXXnOex-fKrdpQTwCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h418/JDEfeb22-6.jpg" title="Jesse Daniel Edwards (c) Sarah Bello" width="640" /></a></div><h1 style="text-align: center;">The Moniker </h1><div><br /></div><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">I've set out to capture the vulnerable solo sets up to musicians spilling over the edges of the stage. </span>My favorite was never a secret. </p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none; text-indent: 40px;">He carries his own instrument beneath his skin in between his head and heart. It</span><span style="text-indent: 40px;"> can stand alone or lead an orchestra. The only instrument worthy to parallel his own is the piano, and they meet as masterfully as the horizon. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20px; text-indent: 40px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 40px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Songwriting at it's purest, life's moments felt not simply recalled. The torturous reopening of the wounds forced and self-inflicted. The listener is in the midst of it, often uncomfortably so, but unable to pull away. You find yourself in them beautifully broken. </span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 40px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 40px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">I met him in the aftermath when the stories were brief and vague. For a few minutes that first night, a boy stood in front of me so young I almost didn't recognize him. Over the years I watched him try on a multitude of disguises. Cloaking himself in everyone's clothes but his own. Baring his most painful memories for a room of strangers then putting that experience on repeat, night after night. </span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 40px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">What armor would you need to protect yourself? What vices would you need to numb it? </span>Would you be brave enough to speak the truth? </p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20px; text-indent: 40px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 40px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">In concert, my camera is my armor as I'm surrounded by his reinforcements from the East and the strongholds in the West. I would be overwhelmed by emotion without it. Nevertheless, it is also the secret pathway from my heart into the world. I try to capture a glimmer of what beats so beautifully beneath. </span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 40px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 40px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"> </span>His pathway is his voice through song. Uniquely his own. It will not be heard and then forgotten. It will break you wide open, reach for your heartstrings, and create a wondrous collaborative.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 40px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center; text-indent: 40px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="Apple-converted-space">Album Available August 21st, 2020</span></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center; text-indent: 40px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><a href="https://www.juniatamusic.com/" target="_blank">Juni Ata (Website)</a><br /></span></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center; text-indent: 40px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><a href="https://juniatamusic.bandcamp.com/album/saudade?fbclid=IwAR1N2UzbJiGw5SJg2r8biRCTba9jDgVOq9mhgZCOVWx507_fcpox5OO2kKo" target="_blank">Meant to be enjoyed on Vinyl</a> </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lZ2MtHfVRfo/Xyi-Kcg06hI/AAAAAAAAExo/90NdAI22Zcca6GRuuaYwjsI9QMjGvX-PwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1997/JDE_BowleryApril_6%2B%25281%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><font face="arial"><br /></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><i><font face="arial"><span class="Apple-converted-space">I </span>took breathe for granted. </font></i></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><i><font face="arial">The ease of air through my lungs at rest, through exertion, through song.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></i></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px; text-align: left;"><i><font face="arial"><br /></font></i></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><i><font face="arial">The once beautiful silence inflates into a crumpled bag.</font></i></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><i><font face="arial">The stress of all I didn’t do with them collects on their walls.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></i></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px; text-align: left;"><i><font face="arial"><br /></font></i></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><i><font face="arial">This body has gone through so much healing, again and again. Hit after hit aiming for the mind, the heart, the immune system. To be broken into pieces so fine, they are unrecognizable. </font></i></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><i><font face="arial">Rock bottom was only the beginning. </font></i></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><i><font face="arial">A layer of corrosion hides the only raw materials I need. </font></i></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><i><font face="arial">And it’s a slow process of restoration.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></i></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px; text-align: left;"><i><font face="arial"><br /></font></i></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><i><font face="arial">I’ll take a walk again without losing my breath. I’ll run, I’ll climb, I’ll swim. </font></i></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><i><font face="arial">I’ll sing at the top of my lungs driving down the backroads across my beautiful country.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></i></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><i><span class="Apple-converted-space"><font face="arial"><br /></font></span></i></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><i><span class="Apple-converted-space"><font face="arial">S. 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<b><br />Muliwai Trail to Waimanu - 17.5 Miles Roundtrip</b></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">My younger brother is a painter. Excited about finding a subject for his next painting, he hoped the Muliwai trail to Waimanu would give him some stellar landscapes. We got up before dawn in our board shorts and hoodies, coffee thermos in hand and drove from Kona to Waipio Valley. We watched the sun rise in Waimea next to a snow capped Mauna Kea cooling the air to 51.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Bold blue skies stretched overhead in Waipio as we bounced along the 4WD road down into the valley. Stepping out on the black sand beach we reevaluated the contents of our single rugged backpack. Bare essentials mostly comprised of photography equipment, leaving room for our hoodies as the day warmed up.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">The fresh water river dividing the black sand beach was our first traverse. Normally not a worry but my camera was only protected by a zip lock bag. A little slippery and I froze with fear. I could hear my brother telling me it was okay, keep going but it was so faint by the sound of the waves. I felt for sand between the rocks and kept going.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">The waves swelled and crashed on the beach. Surfers ran past us, boards tucked under their arms. We did get a little distracted by the sets coming in. We found the black sand trail behind the first windbreak of pines to take us to the Muliwai trailhead. The handpainted sign provided helpful information. =) </span><br />
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">The sun had only begun to warm the air and as we walked under trees the cool breeze kept us at a steady pace. As the climb began to gain altitude, the rocks became larger to scale. My breathing began to labor and I started to fall a little farther behind my brother.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">By the time we reached the first lookout at a break in the tree line, our hoodies were in the backpack.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> What a beautiful day!</span></span><br />
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">As we made our way up the Z, the terrain changed to a cedar forrest. It felt like another world. If someone had dropped me there blindfolded, I would not have guessed I was in Hawaii.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> Generations of twisted trunks reaching up through the carpet of ferns. </span></span>The path winding through an untouched landscape of giant trees with canopies filling the sky.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">The landscape continued to change as we hiked around the bends. Each valley with water cutting through it from streams to rivers to waterwalls that ran over the trail. </span>Though we choose a very sunny day, the air was cool past the Z trail due to the high elevation and tree canopy.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> Hoodies back on! </span><br />
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">There is a serious cause for caution when hiking during the rainy season or with possible rain in the forecast, which is very common in this area. Flash floods would make the trail impassable. There isn’t an alternate way out besides helicopter rescue. Should the rivers rage, you would be stuck until they subside. There is no cell service in this area or the area where you park. </span><br />
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Another non-fun detail to be aware of is the mosquitos. They are fierce and aggressive! I am normally not bothered by mosquitos. I have no reaction to their sticks but these swarmed me. Mosquitos are attracted to both the carbon dioxide you breath out and your sweat. You will be admitting both heavily on this hike and they can smell you coming from over 30 feet away. My brother wore dark leggings under his board shorts which worked for him. I just put on my hoodie when it cooled off and tried to keep a move on through the excessively populated areas. Sit down on a log and they will come for you with all their blood sucking friends. They didn’t exist everywhere on the trip though, so you will have a break.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br />
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Around mile 6 my shoes came off. Around mile 8 my knee went out, followed my the other knee. The pain was quite unbearable and I begin to switch up my walking style searching for some relief. It could have originated in my hips from constant incline, decline while climbing rocks and stepping up and over large roots. But I had injured my knee a few years back and sometimes on these long hikes, it starts to get sore again. I hadn’t remembered to bring my muscle salve. Far away from the truck and in it for the long haul, I stopped at each ice cold river<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>to soak my knees which provided some brief numbing relief. When I try this again, I’m bringing the salve and maybe a brace. I have also since learned a few stretches to do at intervals that have seriously helped on shorter incline hikes lately.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">I mention this so that you can be more prepared than I was. This is an intense hike, not a casual stroll through the woods. But even though it ranks in the top 5 most painful experiences of my life, I would still do it again. It’s that incredible.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br />
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">At around mile 8.5 is the Waimanu Valley with a long black sand beach and an abundance of towering waterfalls thoughout the valley normally only seen by helicopter. The view is unbelieveable. It looks like no where else on the Big Island and rivals views on Kauai and Maui. These were taken at the trail before the desend. We were on a day hike and needed to immediately head back since it was approaching 2pm at this point. When I do this again, I would obtain a camping permit so that I could stay in the Valley and enjoy the Waterfalls. This would also break up the hike to 8 miles a day instead of 17 which may have saved my knees. One of the few couples we passed on the hike had camped over night and said they would have stayed two nights had they known how amazing it was. Especially being able to swim under the waterfalls and having the whole place to themselves.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br />
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">The river we’d walked through that morning had increased with the tide and I was freaked out to walk through it in the dark. The current was strong and cold leading into the ocean. Slow and steady I stepped in. My knees loved it, the rest of me not so much. Locals were night fishing, and a few camp fires in the distance gave me lights to head towards. I’ve never been so happy to reach a destination.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> My brother turned to me to say, 'So you wanna do it again next weekend?". </span></span><br />
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">You should see the well-deserved lines on a face. The freckles given by their ancestors and exaggerated by the sun in monochrome perfection. Dressed up in costumes or unable to get out of bed in the afternoon. When the natural elements of a human being have been emphasized. When a look can show what kind of day they’ve had, month they’ve had, life they’ve had. That’s the shot I want.</span></span><br />
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">When I think of flowers I think of the endless field and I think of the macro details. I have neither at my disposal. What I do have is the uniquely cultivated botanical oasis that is my parents tropical property up mauka on the Big Island of Hawaii. Very few plants are in bloom right now, however, I was able to find a few varieties of Heliconia. A very dramatic flower that shoots between it’s thick stocks or hangs like a living Calder mobile. And they are enormous enough to only need one.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">The sun was quite high in the sky so most of these were taken under shade with natural light. I carefully navigated the spiders, the fire ants and some of the plants own residue that itches or irritates my bare skin. The rooster brought all his hens through at one point but they were to quick to be included. I jumped, and i bended and I contorted and sweated...but everything was just blah.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">The hanging heliconia needed to hang. I needed to stop hiding my face with the environment. I hide my face a lot in photos. I think I do because then it could be someone else. I can be a stand in figure to use to get the capture I want. My face is too personal. I didn’t realize that it is in fact a insecurity.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Because I immediately think before I post a picture of myself, is this too much me? What someone else might think still has a hold of my left ankle and I’ve been dragging that fucker a long way. But why would anyone trust me to shoot them raw if I won’t even shoot myself that way. AHHHHHHHHHH</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1">I stopped at my favorite tree in the yard, the Ficus. The low light brought about beautiful contrast from the light skin of the tree and the dark shadows behind it. I spent a little while setting up the tripod on the incline surface where roots strangle the ground and spent leaves were 6 inches deep.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1">I didn’t know I was flipping off the camera in the moment. I didn’t even notice when I scanned my viewfinder in between timed shots, as I was mostly looking at the light and focus. But in post, there it was. Two of my favorite captures and my middle finger straight up.</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><i>I do not have photoshop on my oldie laptop so these had minimal editing. I think I’d gotten a little lazy with layering filters and using presets. It was getting boring. “I’ll just photoshop that out” has to be taken from my vocab this year. Going back to bare minimals with a light and color slider has been good for me.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></i></span></div>
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thing to know what you want. Learning to leave room for the how and the when is
a process. Maybe the continuing shift between I want it now and it’s worth
waiting for is what keeps us on our toes. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">My hiccup is drifting
into my imagination where I may live for oh 2 to 10 hours, taking zero actions
for the day. But over thinkers rejoice, I have a new exercise. And you get to
make a list! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Remember to put things
that improve your health on that list. Taking a long walk in the park or making
yourself a healthy breakfast in the morning isn’t paying your rent but it’s
needed to keep you going. You are needed for your dream, you’re kind of the key
part. Taking care of you should be on the daily list. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Social media is a rabbit
hole for me but its also on both lists. I have to be on it every day BUT I can
limit my time and increase the quality of that time. Being supportive of your
creative friends is important! Liking images that are reposted and have 10K
likes already is not. I stopped following anyone that didn’t fall into one of
these 3 categories; people I know, accounts I engage with or that inspire me. My
feed is so short now, it’s fantastic. I have time to engage with friends and find
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house for a while, take a nap, organize something that’s not important, surf
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crazy beneficial. Because let’s be real, I can easily watch an entire season of
something that brings no value to my life, eat 5 meals (two of which will be a
sunflower seed butter sandwich) and call it a great day. And that’s okay when
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<!--EndFragment--><br />Wander Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14596972014597608968noreply@blogger.com0Nashville, TN, USA36.1626638 -86.78160159999998835.752564799999995 -87.427048599999992 36.5727628 -86.136154599999983tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8858322448545526754.post-68186214058862162672019-08-20T00:00:00.020-10:002024-01-27T15:58:31.972-10:00Photography: A Song in Your Heart (Musicians 2019)<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Oswald;"> </span><span style="font-family: times;">I disappeared into music right before I started
hiding behind a lens. Performing the Annie soundtrack for relatives is my
earliest performance memory while my childhood friend and I wrote hundreds of
love songs before we’d even talked to boys. I don’t know that I would have
survived the struggles of my life without songs. It wasn't just the melodies; the
stories became my stories. I had one for every situation I encountered, my
emotional wingman. </span></span></b><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Photographing singer/songwriters have become a reignited
passion in recent years. It’s difficult for me to enjoy something with
strangers around. Concerts can either be overwhelming or immersing. My camera
is a cloak for vulnerability. Grateful am I that I can merge my two
loves. </span></b><br />
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beautifully brave enough to write it down </span></b></div>
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Following precious hearts around until I see something I must capture. The newest collection of portraits. Continually adding to for the remainder of 2019. </div>
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<br />Wander Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14596972014597608968noreply@blogger.com0Nashville, TN, USA36.1626638 -86.78160159999998835.752564799999995 -87.427048599999992 36.5727628 -86.136154599999983tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8858322448545526754.post-46552615539829192462018-07-24T20:32:00.017-10:002024-01-27T15:58:54.768-10:00Portraits and Live Music Photography<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
I started photographing people when I was 7 years old. Geared up with my little 110 camera with the big orange button and sky scraper-like disposable flash. My little sister, at 5 years old, was my first model. We staged photoshoots with the cat or our cabbage patch dolls, dressed up in our Easter dresses, hats or wigs. When I started sifting through the photos I've taken over the past few years, my favorite shots are still of my little sister. </div>
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<i>Franklin/Nashville Photographer</i></div>
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<i>Available for Travel</i></div>
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<i>For photography inquiries: hiwandergirl@gmail.com</i></div>
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<b>Below is a small collection of my favorite portraits and live music photography. </b></div>
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<br />Wander Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14596972014597608968noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8858322448545526754.post-2531175178378958322018-02-04T14:27:00.006-10:002021-08-09T18:58:40.138-10:00Vegan & Gluten Free Eats on the Big Island<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I love food. Fresh flavorful food. I want my taste buds in euphoria not just eating to survive. I'm immensely disappointed when I go out to eat and two bites in I'm thinking about how it could be so much better. What is the point of bland food? Being gluten free, vegan and having no short list of food allergies, its not always easy to find places I can get excited about. These places rocked my palate, were full of flavor, had creative menus, fresh & organic and all local small businesses.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Kawanui, Big Island Hawaii</span></div>
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This was my staple when I visited last year as its only about 10 minutes from my parents house. It's in a slightly updated old general store right off Mamalahoa Hwy. A laid back atmosphere but quick to get your order out. <br />
You can't go wrong when ordering as everything is yummy. Most of the baked goods are Vegan and Gluten Free. The scones are the best I've ever tasted. I kept thinking they were mismarked and couldn't possibly be gluten free. =) They have fabulous locally grown organic coffee with 6 milk choices including almond, coconut and hemp.<br />
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Kombucha on tap from <a href="http://www.hawaiikombucha.org/">HI Kombucha</a> . They'll also fill your growler. We had Tangerine Lillikoi and Pomegranate Mango. The Hibiscus is also wonderful. We paired with Strawberry Brownie and cranberry orange scone. My sister talked about the brownie for days.<br />
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The best Samoa Cookie in the world! Make sure you order a second one for the road as you will inevitably crave it later.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Hilo, Big Island Hawaii</span></div>
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My first time at the farm to table Sweet Cane Cafe made me wish I could pack it up and move it to Nashville. They are a GMO free Vegetarian restaurant and everything on the menu can be made vegan or gluten free. I got the Zucchini Pesto (raw zucchini noodles tossed in macadamia nut pesto and fresh tomatoes and avocado). It looked so amazing a couple of people sitting next to us changed their original order and another couple was overheard saying, "Its okay, we'll get that next time".<br />
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Still getting over a sinus infection from the flight, I also ordered a Wellness shot (<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "avenir"; font-size: 10pt;">ginger, turmeric, noni, liliko’i, lemon, cayenne) </span>My sister got the Pumpkin Coconut Curry over quinoa. Our plates were licked clean.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Hawi, Big Island Hawaii</span></div>
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When I visited the Big Island last year we stumbled upon this place just as they were closing. It was tucked away behind a building on the main road. I made a mental note to look for them this trip and they had changed locations. Now they are right on the main road and the new place is wildly colorful and fun. Even the cash register is hot pink. This all organic and gluten free vegetarian cafe specializes in Vegan dishes.<br />
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I ordered the Hawaiian Bounti Burger, the newest item on the menu. Veggie patty made in house from veggies, fruits, seeds, grains and herbs, topped with seared pineapple, red onion, local lettuce, Hawaiian plum sauce on a house baked gluten free roll (which didn't fall apart until I was almost finished, possibly some kind of record). It came with green papaya slaw and house made pickles. My loud mmm mmmmm were made all the way until the end.<br />
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A quaint little drive thru with outside eating area, Herbivores is 100% plant based and has many gluten free options. I had the BBQ Jackfruit Sandwich with sweet potato chips. I added avocado because I add avocado to everything. My first experience with cooked jackfruit and it was amazing.<br />
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My brother and sister had the BBQ Jackfruit Nachos and a hot dog with sauerkraut. I was tempted to try theirs but the cheese on the nachos is cashew based and I'm allergic and my sister's bun was not gluten free. =( My siblings are only occasionally vegetarians but found the food to be delicious.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.islandnaturals.com/">Island Naturals</a> </span>market, with 3 locations on the Big Island, is filled with organic, gluten free and vegan options. They also carry local fruits and vegetables and the biggest avocado I have every seen in my life! They have a customer appreciation day every second Sunday when they offer 15% off your total purchase.<br />
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My first experience with both fresh cacao and soursop. I ate the cacao seeds raw and for a few hours I felt REALLY good. They produce phenylethylamine and anandamide when consumed, the focus, excitement and bliss chemicals. Umm, yea they do.<br />
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<br />Wander Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14596972014597608968noreply@blogger.com0Island of Hawai'i, Hawaii, USA19.5429151 -155.6658568000000317.6283981 -158.24764380000002 21.4574321 -153.08406980000004tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8858322448545526754.post-83345433255492302952017-08-21T03:33:00.002-10:002024-01-27T16:00:04.468-10:00Chocolate Cherry Buckwheat Pancakes Vegan & GF<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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These pancakes have replaced all the other pancakes I've made over the years as my weekly treat. It's difficult to experiment with other flavors when these rock my world every time. Since I cook for a party of one this recipe makes 2-3 medium-ish pancakes.<br />
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1/2 cup Buckwheat Flour<br />
2 tsp of Cacao Powder or Cocoa Powder<br />
1 tsp Baking Powder<br />
1 Tbsp Flax Seed Meal<br />
1/2 Tbsp Chia Seeds<br />
1 Tbsp Maple Syrup<br />
1 1/4 cup of Coconut Milk/Almond Milk or water<br />
1/2 cup chopped sweet cherries<br />
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Both the chia seeds and flax seed meal mixed with a little water are used as egg replacers. I like the nutty flavor the flax adds to the mix.<br />
Let the batter set on the counter for 5-10 minutes to make the pancakes fluffier. You may need to add more liquid if it becomes too thick though.<br />
After you pour onto your skillet, lift and turn so that the batter runs a little in all directions, making the pancake bigger and thinner. If its too thick it will take longer to cook and may not cook evenly.<br />
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Nothing is better with chocolate than peanut butter or in my case being allergic to peanuts, a peanut butter alternative.<br />
I make my own sunflower seed butter by putting roasted sunflower seeds in the food processor along with a little sunflower seed oil and salt until it's creamy. I can make a whole jar for less than $2 this way. Budget-friendly and really yummy!<br />
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In between the pancakes is sunflower seed butter with maple syrup and sliced cherries on top.<br />
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I bought a small Bee Balm plant at <a href="https://www.gardensofbabylon.com/">Gardens of Babylon</a> last spring and planted it near the corner of the garden. I dreamed of going out my back door and picking blooms for tea and I'd have a great view of the butterflies. It was a little 4-inch pot and it was so small I almost put it in a planter. It did get bigger but I didn't pick the blossoms the first year. My grand idea of making my own herbal teas drowned in a sea of a stressful job in a surface of the sun summer. </div>
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This spring the little Bee Balm came back and brought all its friends. </div>
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It quickly grew to over 5ft tall and started cuddling up to the echinacea, kale, and squash. I thinned it out and planted it in 3 other places in my yard. It loves the sun! Once established it didn't even need to be watered. The consistent blooming brought in more butterflies and bees than my garden had seen the previous years. Franklin got a lot of rain in June. I used twine and a couple of tomato stakes to encircle the lower half and keep the blooms off the ground.<br />
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<span style="text-align: start;">The entire Bee balm plant is edible. I used the blossoms and the leaves for tea. It's great as a calming before bed tea as it's been known to help with insomnia. As part of the mint family, it is also great for digestion. </span></div>
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Fresh Bee Balm, dried bouquet, and when the dried blooms and leaves are removed. </div>
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Each small bouquet fills a Mason jar with tea. I leave it whole and loose but you could also crunch it up and enclose in reusable tea bags. You can make your own from organic cotton muslin, I found a cute DIY post from Little House Living <a href="http://www.littlehouseliving.com/make-your-own-tea-bags.html">here</a> or buy some on Etsy from Bear Earth Herbals <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/211470682/organic-cotton-tea-bags-3-reusable?ref=additional_listings_0">here</a> . </div>
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When I make a large batch of tea I use the French Press. I throw in about an inch high of herbs and pour in my whistling tea pot water, let set to desired strongness, then press. In two 32 oz glass jars I put one tablespoon of maple syrup. I pour in the French press tea in equal parts to the two jars, swish around mixing the syrup then add fresh filtered water (I drink reverse osmosis) until the jars are full. </div>
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<br />Wander Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14596972014597608968noreply@blogger.com0Franklin, TN, USA35.9250637 -86.868889935.7192797 -87.1916134 36.130847700000004 -86.5461664tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8858322448545526754.post-66266252195060115962017-07-27T01:30:00.003-10:002021-09-25T22:12:24.731-10:00Everyone Has Their Own El Guapo<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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My personality type, an INFJ, is often called a walking contradiction. </div>
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As much as I hate being pigeonholed, there is truth in this statement. </div>
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I swim in the depths of the creative and adhere to the logical. I want it now and I’ll wait til later. I want your skin attached to mine and I want to be left alone. I search endlessly for my soul mate and fall for men that are emotionally unavailable. My music is alphabetized; my closet arranged by color and season, my movies by category and sub-category…i.e.-Sci-fi- Space, Sci-Fi-Time Travel, Zombie, Superheros-DC, Superhero-Marvel etc.</div>
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The pile consists of everything in my house I gathered together that no longer brings me joy. A weekend of thinning out the clutter, spurred on by The Minimalists <a href="https://minimalismfilm.com/">documentary</a>. I piled it up in the middle of my kitchen so I’d have to dispose of it quickly. Now 7 months later, I sweep around the pile, I dust the pile, I’ve told all my friends about the pile and I randomly give it the bird when I walk around it in the morning.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
I could put these items in my trunk and take them to the local thrift store. But that wasn't the original plan for these items. I'd already donated most of it; this small man made mountain was actually the reduced version of the pile. These were the items I thought I could perhaps sell and make a little money on since my income is currently derived from freelance. </div>
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Items like various coffee makers in their original boxes. </div>
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I keep original boxes because when I move, it will make them easier to pack.</i></div>
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I’ve been living in the same house for 8 years.</i></div>
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I talk about tackling my pile every weekend. And every weekend I do something else, like pull weeds in the garden or lay on my couch and solve climate change.</div>
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To quote<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Steve Martin's character in The Three Amigos, “All of us have an El Guapo to face”.</div>
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Mine happens to be a pile of things that no longer bring me joy but continue to torment when I stump my toe on them in the dark on my way to the bathroom.</div>
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While talking about my El Guapo recently with a neighbor, she revealed to me her much larger and overwhelming El Guapo. Her El Guapo had reduced my El Guapo significantly to non-El Guapo status.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal">It wasn’t even Jefe at that point. </div>
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I started going through my pile, taking pictures of anything I still thought was valuable to make my small eBay fortune and donated the rest. It only took me a few hours and it's no longer in the middle of my kitchen. Why did I let that self-inflicted Everest plague me for 7 months?!</div>
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The unknown can paralyze you. Fear of failure keeps you from making decisions. But once you take that first step, everything becomes easier than you thought it would be. Nothing will ever be perfect. Fear breeds in the over thinking, not in the actual doing. Whether you succeed or it backfires, nothing is as awful as being tormented by what if’s in your head.<br />
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The thunder started before the sun went down. Distant thunder with the sun still setting. We needed the rain. My garden needed the rain. I can water the garden with the hose to keep it alive but the rain is what it thrives in. The rain is what gives it life to bare fruit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I walked out to the field in the darkness. I listened to the thunder, watched the lightning strike over and over again and I waited for the rain.</div>
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I want to thrive like the garden and bare fruit. I want to be drenched by the sky. Let the lightning wake me up and the thunder shake me. My heart is broken and I want to scream.</div>
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