Meteor Showers and Fading Hurricanes

Perseids

remnants of Felicia

Hurricane Felicia passed O'ahu and downgraded to a tropical depression through the island today.

"The last of the major weather warnings for the Hawaiian Islands have been dropped with only high surf advisories still standing." Writes the San Jose Weather Examiner

and what do you do when it rains on an island? You go surf! (You're gonna get wet anyway so why not do something productive.)

The waves were not the "high surf advisory" we were promised, instead so tiny so we paddled from Queens to Pops to Paradise before the rain began. So beautiful. This adventure happened at around noon so when the sun did manage to peek through the clouds looking down into the ocean was like having a dark veil lifted of an aquarium that my toes happened to dip in.

I paddled so hard for one wave (didn't break, sad story) and pinched something in my neck. poot! So I did the slow one-handed paddle back to shore. It got me thinking though about how balanced the 4 elements are around here. Earth Wind Fire and Water. Maybe this is why people around here seem so happy, each element present, each element awakened. When I got to shore I experienced pure happiness. A massage for the muscles, the mind and the heart. :) I had gotten up wanting to surf surf surf (got some sweet side fins from the roomster) and ended up sore and limping back to shore. The silver lining of course would be the mental massage shortly thereafter. Life doesn't always give you what you want, but it gives you what you need!

If all the raindrops were lemondrops and gumdrops. Oh, what a rain that would be!

I reflect: It might also have been that I was not exuding my normal amount of positivity today... I woke up abruptly, like a poptart - and I now know what they mean about, (forgive the paraphrase) If they wanted us to pop out of bed we would go to sleep in toasters! I was groggy and sore even after several hours of sweet slumber. Thankfully the ocean is there to fix that.

As the storm passes a meteor shower may be visible, happening just a layer of gray away. The stars are dancing above me right now and I can't see it. But somehow it's ok. I'll close my eyes to the sound of the rain, plop plop plippity plop, until a new day arises and dream of the stardance on the broad way above me. ;)

no rain, no rainbows.

A hui hou.
bvw.