DrWood

Sometimes the beauty of the world is so overwhelming, I just want to throw back my head and gargle. Just gargle and gargle, and I don’t care who hears me, because I am beautiful.
– Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

For me, this move has been amazing. Moving from the rain and gloom, to an active, social, green reality has been transformative. But I don’t think it is for everyone. I have experience living in other countries, and while Hawaii is just another state, it is also half way to living in another country. If you’re white, your moving to a place where you are a small minority. And time, moves different here. Surfing, and Las Vegas are religions here, I don’t get the Las Vegas thing at all.

I really just want to surf, and enjoy being there, so I decided to not take a teaching contract. I’ll sub a bit, maybe look into being an adjunct at the U, and take it from there. If anyone has any ideas on where to live let me know, I’m going to stay with friends in Honolulu for a few days – I don’t know if I’ll stay there, or go to Maui…

Yeah maybe I am ready, never thought I would be, and after turning down so many proposals. But of course the right person has to come along…

somehwere i have never travelled,gladly beyond
any experience,your eyes have their silence:
in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,
or which i cannot touch because they are too near

your slightest look easily will unclose me
though i have closed myself as fingers,
you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens
(touching skilfully,mysteriously)her first rose

or if your wish be to close me,i and
my life will shut very beautifully,suddenly,
as when the heart of this flower imagines
the snow carefully everywhere descending;

nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals
the power of your intense fragility: whose texture
compels me with the colour of its countries,
rendering death and forever with each breathing

(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens;only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
nobody,not even the rain, has such small hands

e.e.cummings

O sweet spontaneous
earth how often have
the
doting
prurient philosophers pinched
and
poked

fingers of

thee
, has the naughty thumb
of science prodded
thy
often have religions taken
thee upon their scraggy knees
squeezing and

beauty    , how

buffeting thee that thou mightest conceive
gods
(but
true

to the incomparable
couch of death thy
rhythmic
lover

thou answerest

them only with

spring)

e.e.cummings

feels great!

So good to be back in the real world… ummm most of the time.

This wasn’t intentional, maybe if it was I would feel better about it – but I was fifteen and it scared the shit out of me. I would steer you towards dolphins (in the wild, not captive) an amazing experience if you can pull it off, although I was swimming with tiger sharks too – a little unnerving…