Heaven right here in Ka'u

Here I sit, eating fresh pesto plopped into some sour cream for dip with an assortment of veggies to dip for a light lunch. All from the local community garden. Delightful! (As I nurse my sore muscles - hey, that feels kinda good also!)

Keeping powdery mildew away

I've had lots of problems with powdery mildew. For the last few months, however, this product, purchased at Ace Hardware, sprayed on my plants once a week, has successfully kept my plants mildew-free!

I am

As I bask in the afterglow of intense healing and allow the chi to work within me,

I am

.            Both

Extremely vulnerable

.            And

Extremely strong.

As I go out into the world to meet friends, acquaintances, work, I reflect on how both states, together, are okay.

A salty success!

After collecting a small bucket of seawater at South Point the other day, today I miraculously see the snow-white and tasty rewards of our efforts!

Today's thought

I was driving up the hill to my friend's house this afternoon and two important thoughts occurred to me.

1. When I first visited the Big Island, it felt  like a place of healing. Now, here, most of my time and energy are spent healing. 

2. Seek to learn and a teacher will appear. So exactly happened. And I am grateful.

Another good thing about retirement - take a recovery day!

I've been fighting a cold for a few days. Like most people around here. Not very surprising because school started this week.

My throat started getting a little scratchy, and I took all my usual prophylactic vitamins and herbs (zinc, vitamin C and Echinacea. No help. After working in the barn, and working with my qi through body work and qigong class, the energy that has been pent up inside me for years grabbed the opportunity to escape. A very good thing... In the long run... Somewhat uncomfortable in the short term! I've been "productively" coughing for two weeks! The great thing was that I could go to bed, let the process happen, and cancel my appointments for the next day. I can do that because I'm retired!

Then, several days later, I was feeling much better, and I drank a few shells of kava. Went home to dinner, and my stomach decided to join in and eliminate negative energy! Nearly the entire night I was up and down, stomach hurt like crazy, and anything I put in it bounced right back out. Yuck.

Finally feeling better, as I look back on the experience, I do feel a huge release of "stuff" I don't need to keep carrying around.

Imagine that.

In the dark of the night

In the dark of the night....

well, not really dark, what with the two red dots like a monster's beady eyes staring at us from the electronics, the dull red glow of the grow lamp spilling out from the bathroom into the hallway..... uh, why the grow lamp, you wonder? doesn't everyone have a medical use license and permission to grow?.... And of course the glow from my tablet!...anyway... In the dark of the night, out here in the country, I can feel the illusion of calm and peace. You can almost believe everything is right with the world. I can hear the soft breathing of our dog at the foot of the bed, almost a snore. Slightly further away, I hear the heavy panting of our husky. She's hot, even though she's lost 2 or 3 lbs of hair for summer. Oh! They must've heard something because they just went running outside to gobble up the bad guys. It's quiet, but they're not back yet. Potty break? Must be, here they come, wandering in..... back to my random thoughts. So I am trying to sleep, but it's after midnight and sleep seems a distant goal. Between my dog barking at who-knows-what and my mind contemplating impossible topics like, "All everyone really wants is love and kindness; so why are people spreading around so much hate and intolerance?" I am including myself in the everyone. I don't understand why it has to be so difficult, or take so much hard work and energy to spread joy to an unhappy person, yet one well-placed quip or jibe, easily flowing from the lips, can crush someone's happiness to bits by cruelty. Pondering these types of questions may put me to sleep (because I'm confused) or give me awful nightmares. I hope not the latter. * sigh*