All Hawaii - All the Time!

Aloha from Gumby & Pokey
Back in the cold
On my balcony - Victoria - B.C.

This is what I came back to... - Victoria - BC

My buddy Greg - Kuhio Beach - Waikiki - Oahu

I think - Portuguese Man o' War
Shipwreck Beach - Lana'i

Yep, that's me - Shipwreck Beach
Lana'i

Last Day on Lana'i at Shipwreck
with Bev
So much Aloha to you my sweet friend!

Perfect Day at Hulopoe - This is where I camped
Lana'i

Bird of Paradise - Lana'i

The Grounds at the Four Seasons Koele Lodge - Lana'i

Four Season's Manele Bay Resort - Lana'i
(Had a dinner and a lunch here - Deeelux!)

HAWAII! HAWAII! HAWAII!

Cool

Gumby and Pokey working on their tans - Hulopoe Beach - Lana'i

Pu'upehe - (Sweetheart Rock) - Lana'i

Shark Cove, Lana'i

Inside my B&B - Lana'i - oooh, 4 poster bed!

My B&B - Lana'i

ALOHA Part Two!

The view from:
Brown's Beach House - Fairmont Orchid - Big Island

Gumby and Pokey by Shay's Pool - Kamuela - Big Island
I think Pokey is drunk...

Big Island Buddha

Turtle on the beach at Puako - Big Island

Gumby and Pokey chillin' at Mauna Kea
...Pokey is still drunk

Hulopoe Beach - Lana'i

The view from Shay's lanai - Kamuela - Big Island

ALOHA Part One! - Malama Pono

Gumby and Pokey on the Big Island
...waiting on the train?

King Kamehameha I - Birthplace
Big Island

Ginger - Big Island

North Coast - Big Island

Me and my dear friend Shay - you rock Shay!

Back home on Lana'i - camped on my beach
but dined at 5 star resort
Best of both worlds!

Jade Flowers at Shay's place in Kamuela - Big Island

Parker Ranch land - Waimea - Big Island

One of the amazing trees at Shay's - Big Island

Hibiscus - Diamond Head - Oahu

Yellow Hibiscus - Hawaii's state flower

Somebody's house! - Diamond Head - Oahu

My buddy Ryan's hotel balcony in Waikiki

Outrigger - Waikiki Beach - Oahu

The view form the corner of Kalakaua and Kapahulu
...near my hotel - Waikiki - Oahu

Long Time - No Blog

Sooke, B.C.

Breathe - because it feels good.
There is little anyone else can do for you in this regard.
Plant your own garden and fill yourself with sun and rain.
This will proctect you from reckless marauders.
Be open and fluid.
Like the river or the wind,
FLOW.

Excerpt from "Lighthousekeeping" Jeanette Winterson

Lighthousekeeping | extract
Chapter 1 - Two Atlantics

My mother called me Silver. I was born part precious metal part pirate.

I have no father. There's nothing unusual about that - even children who do have fathers are often surprised to see them. My own father came out of the sea and went back that way. He was crew on a fishing boat that harboured with us one night when the waves were crashing like dark glass.
His splintered hull shored him for long enough to drop anchor inside my mother.

-Jeanette Winterson

No Pictures this month...

Hi there,
No pictures will be posted this month as the camera I usually use is in Italy with my girlfriend ...which makes sense because it is her camera.....
HOWEVER
I will continue to post and this month make an effort to put up word pictures (a.k.a. stories, poems, quotations)
Right now, I would like to recommend you read Jeanette Winterson's "Lighthousekeeping".
I had a really hard time not calling it " Light Housekeeping" for some reason.
It is somewhat about looking after lighthouses but not really. If you have ever read Jeanette Winterson you'd know that already.
Anyway, I think it's an absolutely "top drawer" read.
Ms. Winterson never ceases to astound me. If you read that and like it, I further recommend "The Passion" and "Art and Lies".
Later skater,
Gillian

Are Love and / or Loss Cumulative?

A simple question without a simple answer?
I certainly don't know.
Do our hearts manage to flush past love and past loss as our kidneys flush more tangible toxins (no, I don't think love is a toxin, love is great and loss, well, loss is just a fact of life)
OR
do love and loss accumulate in our lives, one always trying to outweigh or balance the other?
Are love and loss symbiotic?
Those are all the huge questions of the universe I can muster for now...
Feel free to comment....
All enlightenment accepted.

this is where i live

where do you live?

you could see yourself here

what do you dream of now?

are you at home in your heart?

is your heart at home here?

mine is

i love the space, the water, the blue,
and the green

water and motion - ocean

Water
This is where I belong

The Evening Stretches from Day into Night

here and now

peace

Beauty

More Point No Point Resort

Like a bridge over troubled water
I will lay me down

Point No Point Resort - Vancouver Island

When you're weary
Feeling small
When tears are in your eyes
I will dry them all

Creativity

Time - my latest search for ways in which I can be creative. My current paid work requiring 10 to 11 hours per day, Monday to Friday, and usually parts of Saturday and/or Sunday (not today though), I have sadly reflected on earlier times when I could sit down for at least an hour or two of drawing during the week. Knowing that without creativity in my life, I go a "little" nuts, I have decided to look at it a bit differently and determine what in this day of mine is requiring creativity? - how to hold a sandwich while continuing to work at the computer? -sharpening four pencils at one time to reduce the time away from my calculations? ...No, not so much.
I do believe, however, that there is an art to making decisions, an art to how you impart information to people, an art to how you request assistance, and an art to how you choreograph your day , the people in your life, and how you move through it all. There can be an effort for grace and dignity which, at times, does not come naturally.
Communication and the way of day to day life can be art if you choose to make it so. I am choosing to try. I have always spouted that art is alive and vital - now it's my chance to live my words.
On the lighter side, I'm hoping to have a couple of lovely images to share here later today so stay posted!
Aloha.