Charging the cold water of Samoa, my home here in Humboldt California. I paddled into a world class left, barreling beach break. I dropped in to a 12-15 foot wave, my body fully exposed, the foam feathering behind me, I held my line high and let the wave spit me out before it closed out. I charged leashless and worked soooo hard to stay warm and manuver in these wild seas. I am loving life and the great ocean which teaches me and lets me see...!!!!!!
swirl down, all around, up and down, then ~charge it even harder in an eternal search for the best wave! This is life...I charge the cold waters of Samoa, CA, here in humboldt, my home on the peninsula. I paddled into a world class wave, a huge left grinding the sand bar, spitting, speeding and barreling, ~whooo! I charged...dropping into a 12-15 foot wave, my body fully exposed, the foam feathering behind me. I held my line high and let the wave flow~ to spit me out. I flew through the emerald portal of barrel! Spit out right in front of a massive wall of white energy explosion!!! I hold on tight, I have no leash tonight, the sun is setting bright through the grey sky.
Riding through water, to catch the bomber of the day, I charge it as hard as I ever have today. Holding my line ~gliding across a huge wave after wave, diving down deep, holding on on tight to my board which is just a free as me today with no leash, working as hard as I can until I am finally floating down the face, so huge and perfect! I caught it! Believe me it wasn't an easy task getting out to sea. The channel will suck you out, real easy, and just right of the channel the waves are pounding!
I surfed in laps because the current was so strong pulling me down the beach. The first paddle out I charged straight into the wave, this epic left, I figured I would get to know it more, head on! I barely made it outside before the most bombing set came to take me down. The Right that was curling then closing into the macking left took me under. Holding on deep down to the bottom of the sandy sea floor, I was sucked away in the arms of the the sea, dragged down the beach in one blank swirl, catching one good wave on the inside then washed up with the redwood stump! On the shore, I was more tired then I ever thought I could be, I layed in the sandy shore water letting all of me relax, breathing and floating as the tide pulsed. I respect every hearytbeat and every breath.
The second lap, I paddled out at the perfect time. This time I charged into the channel which was basically lots of moguls (if you were in the snow), mountains of waves, 4-6 feet of constant motion under me. The current was strong out to sea and the motion was an intense, wild ride in foam infinity. I paddled out of that as soon as possible, this time having a better orientation on the right hand side of the macking left. I paddled over glassy seas that were covered in a thick foam residue, huge swells rolling under my belly. I watched a set come through.
Soon enough I saw the wave for me. Thankful for my fins I dashed to the perfect take off, the whole of the wave lining up right under me, I drop in, skipping on a high line, the feather of the wave splashing behind me. My body is fully exposed on the massive face. A little Iya in the bowling left, cruizen, so fast and free, so much wave space before me. Dropping low to a portal of barrel straight through the closeout with the right that got me last time. Being in this barrel is like emerging from the sea caves, the blue room in Kauai. It was like popping out of a bubble, there was a little window for me to fly through, straight out to the foamy waters of infinity, to be swept back to the sea shore, feeling the wave crash into me all the way to the shore where I lay in ecstacy.
I ran back down the beach, so stoked to have caught such a great wave. When I got back to where my friends were at I saw that one of my buddies has lost their board to a broken leash. This was a friend who was just learning how to surf and it was his birthday. Instead of going after his board he let his board wash in and he kept swimming out the channel, in fear of the macking waves that were crashing about. I decided that I needed to paddle back out. After being in the water for ten minutes, paddling through white wall after white wall and not seeing my homie, I thought that something must be wrong, why did I not see him at least paddling in, getting pounded? After twenty minutes I figured the Coast guard had been called... He got sucked out to sea, and was rescued bobbing in the high surf. By the time I got out of the water this time, too distracted to really catch waves thinking about my friend in distress, another surfer had paddled deep into the channel and had him ride on his board tandem on their bellies.
Once I knew my homeboy was safe I paddled out for another go around. This time paddling out with the surfer who just rescued my friend. We got out to the break zone and I ended up getting pounded and loosing my board. I was able to get to it, after sprinting as fast as I could with my fancy fins. But by that time I was too inside to paddle back out. I came in and the coast guard was there along with four sheriffs. Crazy, I made sure that my buddy was ok, gave thanks to the coastal rescue crew and even waved to the helicopter as it flew over and did a little dance for us watching on the beach.
My fifth lap out into the sea was about pure energy. I knew that if I charged it one more time, I would be stronger for my next session, and so I jumped back into the knarly sea and charged it to catch the left again. Making back to the outside, it just turned out that a big set came and took my board away from me. I swam into shore, knowing that I could swim hard and make it to the shore no problem, I even caught up to my board, but I was working with all of the adrenaline from the epic and macking left that I caught!!!That was it for the day, i was so thankful...and hungry.
Since I have been back to the West Coast after having so many amazing surf sessions on the islands of Hawaii, I find that I charge even harder then I was before I left. I have a new level of confidence that allows me to catch waves like I never did before. I think that after riding perfect waves over the reef, along with the experience of growing with the sea in Cayukeee, learning how to ride the fast beach break I am evolving my wave riding and stepping up my surfing skills. One thing for sure, I have a ton of fun in the ocean, and rejoice in its majesty, when it grasps me and lets me ride, fly...
Saturday, June 5, 2010
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
I AM LOVE
Look into the clouds and see infinity. Connect with all the directions, the north, the west, the east and south. There are waves rolling into Kauai, and they hit each side of the island differently. Which ones will I ride today... Believe in the magic inside of your soul. The power to create, the power to originate, use the imagination and see the shapes you wish to see in the sky of blue and gray infinity.
The ocean is blue and brown like eyes. The river runs into the sea and the waves crash on the outer reef in the deep Pacific. The reef is in the deep waters, dropping off into the colorful land that lies below. A plethora of fish swim and the mermaids swim in and out of caves deep below, filled with water blue. The dolphins dance and the whales sing a song of ocean harmony. The waves crash and create a barrel. The barrel is a cave, the cave of the wave!
The commercial world is created as a place that exists for those who have the monetary means to live in it, or get lost in debt. In it exists a whole language of commerce. A whole communication is built around buying and selling. However, there is also a whole world that exists beyond that commercial realm. There is a world of natural beauty and abundance. A world where the animals communicate and the nature resonates a sound all of its own. The eternal tones of creation exist for us to listen to, we just have to keep our ears open to the sounds that are often unnoticed as they root in a different dimension of the commercial world, different communication is established for the relation of all beings. We need to make new symbols and signs, a new language to re-difine the world beyond what has been created. As Tracy Chapman sings, we need to start all over. We need to reform our language to connect with all of the natural world. And yes, there is a universal communication that is found deep with in each and every one of our hearts. We all have a slightly different tone, so when in harmony we resound an amazing and dynamic harmony if following the messages of the heart. Individuals need to me in tune with their hearts. We must listen and sing the messages of our souls. We must call our inner mana out and align it with the mana of the earth. We have no need for the language of commerce, as it is always going to lead us into the same kind of relationships, the kind of relationships that are based on give and take, instead of the freedom of individuality and offering. Yes we need to trade but in a way that is realistic and fare. We must know the true price of an object by knowing how is came into our being, to become part of our world. To know the true reality of our being we need to step back from what we buy and look high into the sky and deep into the sea to wonder and wander so we can really see how to exist in harmony.
Now I am laying by the sea in my dolphin car of red, silver and gold reality. I lay in the back, in the bed I made of board bag and beautiful bright orange and yellow and black Polynesian printed material. To be free in this island life is not such an easy task. Even being free has its own hardships in reality. The freedom of my coconut today came at an expense of blood. As I peeled away the rough skin the knife slipped and shot straight into my hand, it went a good inch into the flesh. The blood poured at first, and then I compressed it and tea tree, thank you for cleansing me. I wrapped it well and now life goes on. My hand is hurt and cut but I know it will heal quick with a good little scar to add to the life line on my hand.
Today I feel the depth of my birthday. I can feel the perceptions change with my age. My reality changes based on the amount of experiences that I have been given. The experience of travel for so many days and nights. I am never sure exactly where I will lay my head at night, yet I always know it will be with peace and protection that lay my head to rest. When I wake in the morning to the sweet Kauaian sun rising I am filled with the satisfaction of fresh life and renewed spirit.
Today going to He'ena beach I see the Noni Tree and notice how its limbs have gotten taller and stronger since I last camped underneath it. I remember when it was just tall enough to reach over my tent, and now its branches grow into the sky, ten feet tall, so high that I can't just pick a fruit off. Being at that beach today made me feel like a whole new person. I feel like a whole new being that I wasn't the last time I was there. I grow with that beach, how wonderful is that. This beach and me are connected in the middle of the pacific. I am here now to see and reflect on the changes that are flowing in all of life. We are all changing so rapidly. We are all changing to create more unity between us. Our consciousness is shifting. There is no doubt that we are all relishing in the ideas of our minds third eye, the ideas that are our distinctly our own yet also ideas that stem from One universal order of life.
The winds will always blow in the springtime. And just as the winds blow I twirl and swim. I am tan and trim. I am strong and firm. I have a skin the color of coconut. I am bronze, and maintaining the balance of both the silver and gold rainbow rays of masculine and feminine. I am learning about my own sexuality and my own transformations as a growing woman in 2010.
The feminine energy has so much more power then it is given credit for. There is a goddess energy that needs to be harnessed in the blessed female in everyone of us. Mother Ocean is the guide. She teaches the power of eternal love flowing freely. Waves wash onto the shore and spin, twirl and crash in cycles with the moon. So too does the female energy.
This is our world and we need to claim it! We need to step forward and continue to take action that moves us forward in the right direction, healing the earth. Claim your right to be a sovereign being existing at our own free will in a world of individuality holding the utmost integrity for unity of community! Community of All, all animals, birds, bears, and barracudas. Community of All, all plants, and microorganisms, elements of earth. All people. We are all living together sharing the same air. We all have the potential to make air more fresh and fragrant. We breath it in and release it to the rest of the world.
Aloha and blessing to everyone, let your soul guide you to shine, shine brightly!
The ocean is blue and brown like eyes. The river runs into the sea and the waves crash on the outer reef in the deep Pacific. The reef is in the deep waters, dropping off into the colorful land that lies below. A plethora of fish swim and the mermaids swim in and out of caves deep below, filled with water blue. The dolphins dance and the whales sing a song of ocean harmony. The waves crash and create a barrel. The barrel is a cave, the cave of the wave!
The commercial world is created as a place that exists for those who have the monetary means to live in it, or get lost in debt. In it exists a whole language of commerce. A whole communication is built around buying and selling. However, there is also a whole world that exists beyond that commercial realm. There is a world of natural beauty and abundance. A world where the animals communicate and the nature resonates a sound all of its own. The eternal tones of creation exist for us to listen to, we just have to keep our ears open to the sounds that are often unnoticed as they root in a different dimension of the commercial world, different communication is established for the relation of all beings. We need to make new symbols and signs, a new language to re-difine the world beyond what has been created. As Tracy Chapman sings, we need to start all over. We need to reform our language to connect with all of the natural world. And yes, there is a universal communication that is found deep with in each and every one of our hearts. We all have a slightly different tone, so when in harmony we resound an amazing and dynamic harmony if following the messages of the heart. Individuals need to me in tune with their hearts. We must listen and sing the messages of our souls. We must call our inner mana out and align it with the mana of the earth. We have no need for the language of commerce, as it is always going to lead us into the same kind of relationships, the kind of relationships that are based on give and take, instead of the freedom of individuality and offering. Yes we need to trade but in a way that is realistic and fare. We must know the true price of an object by knowing how is came into our being, to become part of our world. To know the true reality of our being we need to step back from what we buy and look high into the sky and deep into the sea to wonder and wander so we can really see how to exist in harmony.
Now I am laying by the sea in my dolphin car of red, silver and gold reality. I lay in the back, in the bed I made of board bag and beautiful bright orange and yellow and black Polynesian printed material. To be free in this island life is not such an easy task. Even being free has its own hardships in reality. The freedom of my coconut today came at an expense of blood. As I peeled away the rough skin the knife slipped and shot straight into my hand, it went a good inch into the flesh. The blood poured at first, and then I compressed it and tea tree, thank you for cleansing me. I wrapped it well and now life goes on. My hand is hurt and cut but I know it will heal quick with a good little scar to add to the life line on my hand.
Today I feel the depth of my birthday. I can feel the perceptions change with my age. My reality changes based on the amount of experiences that I have been given. The experience of travel for so many days and nights. I am never sure exactly where I will lay my head at night, yet I always know it will be with peace and protection that lay my head to rest. When I wake in the morning to the sweet Kauaian sun rising I am filled with the satisfaction of fresh life and renewed spirit.
Today going to He'ena beach I see the Noni Tree and notice how its limbs have gotten taller and stronger since I last camped underneath it. I remember when it was just tall enough to reach over my tent, and now its branches grow into the sky, ten feet tall, so high that I can't just pick a fruit off. Being at that beach today made me feel like a whole new person. I feel like a whole new being that I wasn't the last time I was there. I grow with that beach, how wonderful is that. This beach and me are connected in the middle of the pacific. I am here now to see and reflect on the changes that are flowing in all of life. We are all changing so rapidly. We are all changing to create more unity between us. Our consciousness is shifting. There is no doubt that we are all relishing in the ideas of our minds third eye, the ideas that are our distinctly our own yet also ideas that stem from One universal order of life.
The winds will always blow in the springtime. And just as the winds blow I twirl and swim. I am tan and trim. I am strong and firm. I have a skin the color of coconut. I am bronze, and maintaining the balance of both the silver and gold rainbow rays of masculine and feminine. I am learning about my own sexuality and my own transformations as a growing woman in 2010.
The feminine energy has so much more power then it is given credit for. There is a goddess energy that needs to be harnessed in the blessed female in everyone of us. Mother Ocean is the guide. She teaches the power of eternal love flowing freely. Waves wash onto the shore and spin, twirl and crash in cycles with the moon. So too does the female energy.
This is our world and we need to claim it! We need to step forward and continue to take action that moves us forward in the right direction, healing the earth. Claim your right to be a sovereign being existing at our own free will in a world of individuality holding the utmost integrity for unity of community! Community of All, all animals, birds, bears, and barracudas. Community of All, all plants, and microorganisms, elements of earth. All people. We are all living together sharing the same air. We all have the potential to make air more fresh and fragrant. We breath it in and release it to the rest of the world.
Aloha and blessing to everyone, let your soul guide you to shine, shine brightly!
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Here I Am, Kauai 2010
We all have work to do...
I sit here on a bench in Hawaii. I am at Anini Beach in Kauai! The wind is blowing in straight from the north. I am smiling and feeling blessed with the ocean's mist in every breath as I camp here on the beach. My work involves sharing this moment with you and letting you know that this is how I do grow...
I have been riding my purple bike to and from <(homes)>, from beach park to beach park, to renegade camp spot. Every location hosts different residents reflecting the beautiful vibrations that emerge from the land and sea flowing together in this tropical harmony. I come on my bike rolling with quite an adventure. Pulling a keiki trailer with boards, a tent, food, clothes all secured within it. All the essentials are on board and ready to go, to take me to where ever it is I want to go. I am strong and tan rolling up the hills of the Kauai country side. I ride up tall as I pull into the barreling beaches. I find barrels in the deep sea, swimming with the dolphins and dancing with the sharks. I pull into waves that throw off the 31st Annual Hanalei Longboard Finals on my body board with the boys giving me first pick...Whooooooo! Deep barrels, huge barrels, opening up the green room! The left set it all off, deep and long ride, at least 5 seconds, and then I pull into the barrel. Shoot through the clear, green and blue wave, curling over me, again and again, I find the right wave. I drop in deep and make the line. Holding it through as the waves curls me into it. Wiping out, wanting more breath, more air, getting pulled down deeper into the sea. The water rushing over me, down into the sandy waters. What a rush catching macking Kauaiian waves. I am riding and rolling...rocking in the light of the full moon.
The waves are barreling and the fruits are incredible. I had the best papaya ever! After charging up a mountain top so steep, running with my bike, ducking into the bush when a set of cars came running round the corner. Yet riding a bike has lots of benefits. Finding the hidden waterfalls that flow from the top of the cliffs, and into the sea. Charging through rainforest, cruzing along white sandy beaches, finding Papaya, coconut, even almonds.
Bless All, and rejoice for this life that unfolds as time emerges with the grace of our manifestations as a result of the intentions that we hold true! We are family all of us, through and through.
I sit here on a bench in Hawaii. I am at Anini Beach in Kauai! The wind is blowing in straight from the north. I am smiling and feeling blessed with the ocean's mist in every breath as I camp here on the beach. My work involves sharing this moment with you and letting you know that this is how I do grow...
I have been riding my purple bike to and from <(homes)>, from beach park to beach park, to renegade camp spot. Every location hosts different residents reflecting the beautiful vibrations that emerge from the land and sea flowing together in this tropical harmony. I come on my bike rolling with quite an adventure. Pulling a keiki trailer with boards, a tent, food, clothes all secured within it. All the essentials are on board and ready to go, to take me to where ever it is I want to go. I am strong and tan rolling up the hills of the Kauai country side. I ride up tall as I pull into the barreling beaches. I find barrels in the deep sea, swimming with the dolphins and dancing with the sharks. I pull into waves that throw off the 31st Annual Hanalei Longboard Finals on my body board with the boys giving me first pick...Whooooooo! Deep barrels, huge barrels, opening up the green room! The left set it all off, deep and long ride, at least 5 seconds, and then I pull into the barrel. Shoot through the clear, green and blue wave, curling over me, again and again, I find the right wave. I drop in deep and make the line. Holding it through as the waves curls me into it. Wiping out, wanting more breath, more air, getting pulled down deeper into the sea. The water rushing over me, down into the sandy waters. What a rush catching macking Kauaiian waves. I am riding and rolling...rocking in the light of the full moon.
The waves are barreling and the fruits are incredible. I had the best papaya ever! After charging up a mountain top so steep, running with my bike, ducking into the bush when a set of cars came running round the corner. Yet riding a bike has lots of benefits. Finding the hidden waterfalls that flow from the top of the cliffs, and into the sea. Charging through rainforest, cruzing along white sandy beaches, finding Papaya, coconut, even almonds.
Bless All, and rejoice for this life that unfolds as time emerges with the grace of our manifestations as a result of the intentions that we hold true! We are family all of us, through and through.
Monday, March 8, 2010
Jungle Love, Pahoa Party
Hello, it has been some time, but I came over to the other side of the Big I, and technology has taken the back burner. I have been living off of the land, harvesting fruits from the forest. Living simply, and enjoying all that the island has to offer. Yesterday I even started the process to roast my own coffee that I harvested. I soaked the beans, then peeled then, and then I will roast them in a 16 inch wok once they dry, however, I don't know when that will be as the rain keeps falling... it is warm rain and is good for trees that are making a recovery from the drought. We need more fruits. Overall life is grand, living off of the land, off of this island in the middle of the pacific ocean is like a dream. Eating the fruits of this earth, cracking coconuts, so many coconuts. I use a machete daily with the attitude to harvest five a day and eat two a day. The waves have been big, breaking off of the reef, there have been some amazing barrels, still waiting to slide inside one of them on this coast. I got a good dose of wave riding over in Kona, at Banyons, where I got the waves of a lifetime breaking over the reef, barreling over my head....I love you all, love the aina, the land, the earth mother, and I listen to my ancestors, to the spirits that evoke the actions that lead me to the present! ALoha
The Tsunami and the Storm
My view from highland during the tsunami warning, I was waiting to watch a wave sweep the city away...
Tsunami and the Storm
It was late on Friday night, and I had just met up with my friend, Paul. It was his birthday! I had been staying with my Cayucos sisters, the dolphin family, reuniting with the central coast family that shares such similar native roots with me. They were moving and I was helping but overall there was a United move occurring.
I didn't sleep that night, not for very long at least. I feel asleep under King Kamehameha's sacred site at the tip of Kauila Bay, but a cold wind woke me as my legs chilled to the bone and my toes dug into the damp sand before I even started to dream. Little did I know then that the earth was quaking and I was not to be in a full sleep, but instead would be connecting to my earth mother feeling a world wide polarity change. The earth was breaking apart in Chile, consequentially creating new air for me and you to breathe, just like the volcano on this island is creating new air, vog. And so I didn't sleep that night, and I reconnected with my friend, we shared new insights and worldly intent to bring harmony to our relationships but even more so the Earth. We sat posted in front of an auto mechanics garage after drinking from my flask of tequila. We were stuck in vog, feelings its affects in our lungs and in the water of our eyes, drinking cold coco-mac-nut roobioos tea to bring balance to the soul. When it was close to sunrise, we decided to be the first ones on the beach and jumped in the truck to head closer to the surf...
Once we were on the road, I was surprised that all of the roads were closed headed down to the beach. I figured they were cleaning or something. We heard a strange noise, and thought it was the truck not running proper. We made it up the hill only to go back down to the beach on Lako street, but as we turned the corner there was a stream of cars headed up the hill. It was ~ 6 on a Saturday morning and we both knew something wasn't right. Then we heard that sound we thought was the truck earlier and realized it was a Tsunami warning. We never made it to the beach but instead turned around and headed for high ground.
I knew where I wanted to go to, upon the top of the mountain is the cafe that serves the best coffee and only da kine local food. So we landed there, we were the of the first few to arrive, although many, many more would seek safety from the tsunami there as well. It just so happened that the band we has seen play a show that night got there at the same time we did. We all rallied together on the mountain top together, uniting in the face of a natural disaster. After taking phone calls and letting loved ones know we were aware and ready on high ground we settled into the moment, accepting the fate of the day. We would post here until we knew the Tsunami had come and past.
First thing we did was walk to Paul's Market down the street to fill up with water. With a sufficient supply of water we headed back at the car we crossed the street to an open field, with a view of all of Kona from the airport to the bay to the epic surf spot I had gotten barreled at, Banyons. We surely imagined a huge Tsunami wave washing over all of it, transforming the land as we knew it. It was very exciting...
Preparing for a natural disaster we thought that we should get our food supply together. It just so happened that we were parked across from a house that was for sale, that also boasted a huge amount of fruit to harvest in a jungle-like yard. It was still early, not even 8, which was when the cafe opened and the market too. Instead of relying on someone else's services in this time of crisis we harvested so much fruit! I knew that there would be enough to sustain at least a few days of of living if the shit hit the fan, which it sounded like it very well may...
We gathered pounds and pounds of lilikoi, the passion fruit, with its yellow rind and sweet, tart and juicy center filled with seeds and bright orange flesh. We gathered oranges, avocados, even fresh Kona coffee beans. I felt sustainable. There was no doubt that I would prosper, I had all of my belonging in the back of Pauls truck, everything I needed for a comfortable survival if the built up society of Kona fell, and I had all of the fresh fruit I could have dreamed of. Better yet, that morning the farmers came together to share their food at the weekly farmers market. So even though we were confronted with a natural disaster, there was not a panic on my mind. Instead of panic we celebrated in unity with the others we were sharing the moment with.
All day we waited over looking the ocean, waiting for The Wave, watching over the sea and observing all of the different kind of people take refuge on top of the mountain at the sweetest rootsy cafe in Kona. The wave predicted to come at 11AM never showed but a sign to all of us on the mountain top. I was constantly thinking of what I would offer others if the wave came, what I could do to support others that were there with me. I kept imagining watching a huge wave roll onto the Kona coast. But it never happened, and after a day in the sun, chillin', watchin' others, forming community, I knew it was time to leave Kona. So Paul and I hit the high road and decided to drive to the other side of the island, back to his safe haven in Puna, on the south east side of the island.
We drove north through so many different kinds of ecosystems. We fully opened our hearts and heads to each other, coming true to the reality which we were creating. We drove past wild goats, and came to the Waipio valley, downloading complexities we had yet expressed to each other. We made it back to Pahoa just as the sun was going down, the rain was just beginning to come. There has been a drought this year, and the rain forest was even dry, and the guavas just barely beginning to fruit needed the rain. And rain is what we got. It poured onto the tin roof, and the sound of the wind through the wild growth of trees, along with the croakys (frogs) created a natural uproar of sound for I & I meditation. It rained and rained and the wind blew through with blessings as it transformed the present reality into one of dynamic love. I focus on why I am here and all of that which I have to offer. I focus on my path as and individual finding unity in connection to all of life.
My final words now, which I boast on the t-shirt I wear, All you need is Love... and Rain. It is true through and through no matter where you are, whether on an island in the middle of the Pacific or in the cold winters of Oklahoma. We are one, flowing like water from the sky...
Have a meta-consciousness that observes ourselves observing and that enlarges moments into infinity.
Examine our thoughts and feelings from a new perspective, observe but don't attach.
The real voyage of discovery is not seeking new places but in seeing with new eyes.
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Whale watching from the boat...
There was 5-7 whales all males, traveling south on their Competition Run, finding whom is the most fit to reproduce...survival of the strong!
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Wake up in Kona---Day 1 Hawaii
Ahh, I finally made it to Hawaii, and it feels so good, so right. I am in warm sun and cool water that refreshes the spirit. My spirit is so high, so full of love for lava! Today started as I woke up to the massive Cruz ship coming into Kialua Bay, the lights were bright in the dark of early morning. I rode down to the small boat harbor and walked out to the end where I watched the sun rise next to the Hieu, or Hawaiian sacred site. The cultural site was built up lava, and a bamboo structure that rose into the sky, annointed with leis, flowers and other offerings and aligned with Mona Keu, one of the active volcano's on the island. I offered some seeds and some of the shells that I collected, and gave thanks in love and gratitude to be on the island, asking that I may connect in respect to the mana of island and its ocean waves. I walked past the ancient fish pools and across the crescent beach of shallow reef to a shaded spot to post for the day. I layed in the sun, read, swam, ran, and all around chilled out in the warm Kona sun. I met up with Heidi after she swam with dolphins all morning, and ate the freshest, ahi poke around from the fish market Bite Me.
No pictures yet, as I have to just focus on this new land, understanding it and my place here. I can feel that I am in the right place here, and know that there is much for me to learn here. I am keeping my heart open and my soul alive, refreshed and thriving!
Much love to you all!!!
SOME HAWAIIAN VOCAB I USED TODAY:
MO'O- water dwelling guardian spirit
MANA- spiritual power
MALAMA KA 'AINA-care for the land
KAHUA KAPA- womans workyard
HA LAU- long house
WA'A- canoe
HALE ALI'I- house of the chiefs
HONU-green sea turtle
Iya time poetry espeial:
Winds blow for the spirit earth
changing the directions of existence,
Adding implications os mind matter
to be freed from eachother
yet know we are one on the earth
in harmony with our beings being
Close and aware of each Other.
PS DRINK LOTS OF H2O!!!!!!
No pictures yet, as I have to just focus on this new land, understanding it and my place here. I can feel that I am in the right place here, and know that there is much for me to learn here. I am keeping my heart open and my soul alive, refreshed and thriving!
Much love to you all!!!
SOME HAWAIIAN VOCAB I USED TODAY:
MO'O- water dwelling guardian spirit
MANA- spiritual power
MALAMA KA 'AINA-care for the land
KAHUA KAPA- womans workyard
HA LAU- long house
WA'A- canoe
HALE ALI'I- house of the chiefs
HONU-green sea turtle
Iya time poetry espeial:
Winds blow for the spirit earth
changing the directions of existence,
Adding implications os mind matter
to be freed from eachother
yet know we are one on the earth
in harmony with our beings being
Close and aware of each Other.
PS DRINK LOTS OF H2O!!!!!!
Monday, February 15, 2010
Sea Sick in SLO (My Bro on Drums!)
Nate, Helena, and Na'kill, SEA SICK take on Broad Fest, an all day festival on Broad Street in SLO, boasting at least a dozen different punk bands from all over Cali...Cali's finest punk rockers showed up to drink beer, some Tequila and get their wiggly, giggly, mashin', moshin' groove on under Central Coast Sun!
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Whale Pictures...watch out...
1. Blubber and Shoe for Scale,
2. Beauty and Baleen,
3. Barnacles, whale fleas and hair on the chinny, chin, chin. All marine mammals have hair.
4. Girls doing the brunt work,
5. People standing around baby gray whale.
Whale Day Dissection
Dry Lagoon, wet with Inches of water from the rain
Inches of blubber; thick skin.
The whale is washed on the beach by roaring Humboldt waves.
Now women dig deep into its flesh with knives; knives that have to be sharpened every 15 cuts.
The baleen is being removed, the cut up tongue in the sand, looks like 6 different brains, bright Red.
The hip bones will come out, they are evolutionary evidence that whales, which once walked upon our forests, wetlands, and beaches now swim deep into our mysterious seas and no longer need big hips to support legs. The hips are only as big as my hands on this one year old whale. Recording science, placed in plastic bags...
I saw whiskers on his chin, white like sea foam, to blend into the wisks of water as the whale swims through the sea. The baby gray whale is so big compared to a human. There were 15 people standing and observing, a teacher, a scientist, photographers, students, even a dog. There are lots of ladies getting into the flesh of such a sacred baby animal.
Grey whales
Barnacles so beautiful
and lice that lives on the gray smooth skin,
Your skin a marble of different whites and grays.
Home in the sea, for us now to sea,
we welcome all of your spirit, and off gas (smelly) to enter our beings.
Whale on the beach, you are here to teach,
to become all of us within your reach.
Your body is curved and mangled in the debris,
how did you get hurt in the sea?
A boat, a propeller,
a killer whale?
Strips on your fins, make me curious,
your life need be longer, and stories longer told.
You are a girl, only one year old.
This is my first whale dissection story told.
Writing to change the world.
Iya May
Sunday, January 31, 2010
The Weekend
The warm weather in Humboldt is so delightful, however it isn't even that warm. Pretty much, 66 degrees in the sun, and when shaded it is a hell of a lot colder. The wildness of this place is fantastic, like I said on the beach earlier as my friends and I watched surfers with 3 second drop-ins from cliffs at the Jetty, “It wouldn't be Saturday morning without jet ski's charging into the waves with surfers towing in the back, boards and all, dropin' into a fifteen foot wall of water rolling into the mountains of sand that make up the rugged Samoa peninsula... and the four wheelers and sandmotor-x getting up on their hind quarters and revving their engines.”
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My first blog
Welcome to Iya's own personal blog. Here to share with the world all of what i am and be, do and see. I hope it is a joy for you to read... Let my words bring light to colors you otherwise may never see...
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