Hail in Hawaii?!

Weather of apocalyptic proportions pummels our little island. Not sure when hail was something that pelted tropical climes, yet there it was raining from the sky yesterday. Ice stones measuring two and a half inches across just added to the accumulated 47 inches of rain Kauai received this week.

Solar flares and tornadoes.  Lightning, floods and sewage overflows.  Road closures and power outages. I even lost my phone service for a day.

One could get a little worried about their humble place in this wild, natural world.

Hunkered down indoors this weekend, I thought I’d try opting out of worry. The Bohemian concurs and teaches me Sudoku.

I linger with numbers at the basic level. Keep it light and easy.

Jessica Dofflemyer ~ all rights reserved

Language of Dreamtime Birds

I wake just before
3am
from dreams of making soup
with earthen gemstones
the Bohemian and I
are measuring ingredients
in increments of 11
creating some
hearty brew
of twisting copper
turquoise
chrysocolla
garnet
and jade

from the sky
a manta-ray shaped
bird
flies by and swoops me
skimming my head
and imparting one word
as it makes a sharp
right hand turn

macko

in Hebrew
this means
God is with us
or a Slavic form
gift from God
in Japan
no ‘c’
and this means
truth

my international translation:
truth
is the presence of Grace
gifted in this momentphoto: squeezeomatic, art: Ernest Tait (ernest-tait.co.uk/)

Stormy Weather Inspiration

Wake to no electricity.  Lightning and thunder.  Can’t see the mountains for the rain clouds.

Weather turns vision inward – though just a bit blurred – where beauty is found in the ordinary.

Jessica Dofflemyer ~ all rights reserved

Jessica Dofflemyer ~ all rights reserved