Find Spirituality in Nature

and found nine.

As a kid I´d have concluded this meant the Ocean was welcoming me. : ) Now of course I try to work out whether it´s the season and the relatively small number of seagulls, the extremely low tide leaving all sorts of smaller shells and flotsam higher up the beach and the sand dollars out of the way on the long smooth shoulder lower down below the humped strands of kelp where the gulls seemed to prefer to pick. The dense humidity and the early twilight created the kind of autumn hush that also reminds me of being a kid and racing my bike through a suburban dusk where everyone else seemed to be sequestered inside some box glowing with yellow light. This kind of soft air and expectant quiet only exists in regions where there is enough humidity to trap cacophany in the air and disperse it like steam. Even the ocean seemed calmer although there were still a handful of surfers bobbing around. The sky was muted as well, so hazy that only a long feathery lip of cloud cordoning off the horizon hinted at its hoarded pink glow.

Then I saw the most mournful bulldog ever and had the best cappucino in a long time brewed up by a Bretagnan with the most perfectly stereotypical French accent I think I almost grew a beret listening to him.

Gosh I like San Diego.

:D

while bringing phun for a morning walk.. he loves the walk..

and also well I love my ocean sound machine sunrise clock thingy and I am thrilled to pieces that the November Fool Moon is approaching just one day off my birthday. The official nomadic total upheaval is actually ON my birthday, yes, and that was so mate and I could enjoy one last weekend day together in the old digs before all hell breaks loose and carries us off to new lands of adventure. :D

The sleep deprivation may explain the uncharacteristic verbal tics like “Yarr” and “thrilled to pieces.” heh

It was in the morning we before we left for home. We couldn’t help moaning for the leaving.. We really wanted to stay longer..

It was raining out there but it was sunny in Samui. After getting off the bus, we looked for 2 motorcycles to rent. Then, we rode them along the beach to look for a bangalow.

It made us happy as it showed no sign of thunderstorm. We was worried before going to the island because it was raining cats and dogs when we were at the wedding.

by attending the Del Mar Airshow. Well, only made it to part of it. Arguably, the best part: the Blue Angels ! Actually arrived just in time to see one of my top two favorite planes, the Harrier, landing. Man! that thing is cool !!! Tons and tons of metal hovering almost motionless above the ground, rotating this way and that like a girl posing for a picture. Ridiculous! incredible!

You may say, “Kali, what do planes, and military planes at that, have to do with nature or spirituality?”

But you would only say that if you have never been to an airshow and noticed the way every moving thing in the air catches your attention when you have been standing openmouthed at the sheer awesome power and grace of human invention. We are part of nature after all, and so are our mistakes…. I caught myself wondering much against my will whether these warbirds would be as beautiful without their terrible capacity for destruction and, yes, defense…I think not. Beauty is not a moral thing. That is one thing you confront as an artist (or maybe as a thinking human). Maybe these things could not be flown by people who are not on some level willing to die for an earthly cause. They are certainly adrenaline-junkie daredevils!! :D It’s like playing the violin with an airplane. Ha…well…I try to think of them coming to the rescue and destroying evil madmen, not bombing innocent villages…we all know there are two sides to this coin.

Actually, we don’t all know that. :P The thing about skill is it also requires singlemindedness. Just like stupidity. Funny.

Another thing you notice at the airshow is how you notice every bird: every motion in the sky catches your attention. How the simplest birds surpass our disgustingly expensive technology, hahaha.

Couldn’t get a pic of the Blue Angels. They just wouldn’t stand still. XD Here’s me by a random military copter.

I was so dreading the end of summer and it is such a BEAUTIFUL Fall day today !!

cool air!

Wooooooooooooooooooo! I am going to go run around in circles like a cat now.

Whilst doing laundry. And paying bills. And catching up online.

Let’s hope the bills don’t end up in the washer and the laptop in the mailbox.

It looks like they are talking and looking for a nice private place to be together..

I was so lucky to capture this picture. I guess the bee wasn’t aware that I was standing there holding a camera very near to him, or he just ignored me and eddy and enjoyed his flower and honey..