Wednesday, February 28, 2007
making dinner
By the time we get home from work, there are only a few hours before dark. Without normal electricity, dark has new meaning. We rush to fit in all we like to do in daylight - walk, chores, start homework, and most importantly start dinner. While we intend to move back to the East coast to be near family, having the opportunity to spend so much time with just Raph has been pretty great. Dinner is one of my favorite times. Sometimes I cook, sometimes he cooks, but usually we share. I have always thought there is special intimacy in sharing a kitchen with someone, moving in synch to allow many parts to equal a whole. These images look empty, still, and silent, in the last few minutes of light. But I treasure them for the time I spend with Raph.
on our antennae
daily walk
In order to stay in shape (at least moderately) I have been religiously walking a mile a day since my energy returned right after Christmas. I walk our half-mile driveway to the gate, which I hate to open and close) a path through the woods. I pass the macadamia nut trees, the jobe's tears patch, ancient Ohia (native trees), a gigantic pit crater, Albizia tree bones, and two sets of bee hives. I love it. Raph comes with me sometimes, and when he doesn't, often I stop to pick jobe's tears. I'm going to start posting some nice pictures from my walks.
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
mac nut farm
Monday, February 26, 2007
Pohulu Valley Hike
Monday, February 19, 2007
The Year of Light
My friend Becky names her years. You know, the year of health, or growth, or whatever, so I'm following suit this year and deeming 2007 the Year of Light. (Besides that sounds way cooler than the year of the boar!) Our lives are regulated by light. I see the sunrise almost every morning as I rise for school in the dark. One of my new favorite children's books, How to Start a Day, is all about that actually - greeting the sun each morning. I feel it is hugely important to fill daylight with activity, because after dark our solar power will fire up three light bulbs, which isn't enough to trick my body into staying awake. Raph tries with card games, and music and candle-lit dinners, but bed beckons me when the sun has lost sight of us. I don't mind. I've come to love rising and falling with the sun and I'm prefectly alright with sleeping nine hours.
And since we're expecting, the year of light seems appropriate still. His first light. We're about to see the light. I can concoct all sorts of plays on words to justify the name. Speaking of names, two of my favorite Hawaiian names are about light. And boy were those Hawaiians poetic. Malio for example means "earliest morning light as it pierces the shadow of night." And Nikili means "to glimmer through, as light through a small opening." Those are good meanings.
I'm looking forward to seeing what 2007 will be for Becky.
And since we're expecting, the year of light seems appropriate still. His first light. We're about to see the light. I can concoct all sorts of plays on words to justify the name. Speaking of names, two of my favorite Hawaiian names are about light. And boy were those Hawaiians poetic. Malio for example means "earliest morning light as it pierces the shadow of night." And Nikili means "to glimmer through, as light through a small opening." Those are good meanings.
I'm looking forward to seeing what 2007 will be for Becky.
most recent quilt
valentines
Sunday, February 04, 2007
From the porch
The house we live in has good mana, as they say in Hawaii. It means good vibes; I guess technically it means goodness sent by the gods or something like that, but whatever the case, our house, despite the gecko shit everywhere and the mosquitos, is pretty awesome. Here's Raph's artsy picture under the mosquito net also...
after popular requests...
Here are some belly pictuers...since everybody asks me for them. Just over half way, at 20 weeks and a few days. The baby has been very active this last week and kicked me pretty hard a few times yesterday! Though I look pretty big, as of my last doctor's appointment three weeks ago I hadn't gained any weight, but there has definitely been some redistribution! I have another doctor's appointment on Monday, I doubt I'll get the same news this time!
squares and rectagles add up to something
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