Hoku Shaka

 Two photos from Ka Lae (South Point) on the island of Hawaii. Mahalo to our son for the wonderful greetings.

Lines, tides, hands

 The tides have been extremely high, and then extremely low before and between the New Moon in Scorpio (Wednes 11/11/15) and before the 'Ole Moons which started yesterday.

The photo above and below: at my favorite muliwai (water's edge, the estuary) the other day. The tide was just starting to change from its lowest point.

This video is what sound and movement came from the ocean into ... the muliwai. Where then is the water's edge?

Above, the photo of one of my favorite hands replicates the lines that capture my imagination as I practice kilo where I live, with my environment, with the people I am with.

The lines
The curves
The connection

Out there
Right here
Within

The moon, Mahina affects the tide. The lines move in, out.

Hover over the images to read some more thoughts.

Bustery Nov 1st and Pine Needle Dancers

Mahina showed herself for no more than two minutes, not time enough for me to take her picture. Early in the morning hours the clouds raced at full tilt across her La'au phase holoku. From the south the clouds blew ... giving me a message, "There will be more of that to come today!"

The video here is from Double Bluff State Park, up the island from us. Blowing Winds ... the windsurfers were in all their glory, both the birds and the humans.

The bluster of a south wind created another version of muliwai at Double Bluff. An eery reminder of the force of water rising on island.

 Up mauka in the forest, the Bracken and Cedar layer upon the thick waxy leaves of Salal

 A playful inspiration found its way and simple Pine Needle Dancers have a medicine story growing about them ... over here. 

 The Pampas Grass at Sunlight Beach blows in from shore. Across the way, the Public Access parking lot is filled with trucks, sail boards and surfers amped up for rides.