When the wind is very strong and there is a sandblasting on the beech, the water inside of the ocean tends to be calmer.
Nature is very interesting. I decided to keep writing at the blog site below. 🦉 Miracle Island Hawaii 🐟 yumikobigisland.wordpress.com Our choir is planning to resume a physical rehearsal with less than 25 members at a time. We are recommended to wear a singer mask as below. www.broadwayreliefproject.com/singersmask As I wrote before, I thought we will look like Donald Duck with it. However, this style could work the best to be able to breathe and comfortably sing loud. Life is hard in this pandemic...... Thanks to my new PC (?) , I happened to encounter my older website, which was still there!
It is a nice surprise!! I will go back to this place and keep writing this blog there. "Aloha! from Big Island" https://yumikoamazonparadise.wordpress.com Wow, it has been 7 years already! Still, the messages I want to keep sharing are essentially the same and have been growing more and more. I sometimes have a chance to talk about my experiences in Amazon jungle long time ago.
Even if quite a bit of time has passed since then, those life changing experiences never lose colors inside of me. Rather, whenever I look them back and try to relive them, those feelings come back clearly. I remember those overwhelming experiences and even feel scared again. I am so thankful to my guardian spirit, who watched me, protected me, and guided me to this point through my adventurous journey. In my younger age, I had never imagined I would end up living in Hawaii. Now this is my second home (or 3rd home after living in Japan and Amazon jungle) However, everything seems to have been meant to have happened and have been still happening, I feel. There have been lots of challenges, risks and hardships on the way. At the same time, by overcoming them, I have been raised to another step and new worlds have been opened in front of me. I was a "super liberal". I was an "environmentalist" and giving lectures all over Japan such as climate change (global warming) and others. If I had not have experiences in Amazon, I might have been one of extreme liberals right now. However, the fact is totally opposite now. I feel like I need to trace back those adventurous journey now, which guided me to this place. Through the process, I will see more clearly what is the path I am going to walk on and what kind of missions I am given and want to accomplish in this life. There is a saying in English, "All"s grist that comes to the mill"
In Japanese, we say, "even if you fall, you never get up with empty hands". I like this proverb. The other day, our director Susie of Kona Choral Society shared one story with us at our Zoom rehearsal. After a long pandemic break, some of her friends finally could resume singing gathering in a smaller group physically. Then, her friend, who was leading the lesson, found out that singers level have gone up! During this pandemic (that we might be still in) people had no choice but doing Zoom rehearsal. Each singer was listening to his/her voice only and practicing by learning the direction from the director through Zoom screens. They may have learnt how to read the score more precisely. They checked their own tone and voice. When they could gather to sing after a long time, the leader found out the singers seem to have more confidence in their own voices. With those confidence, they could be able to listen to other voices of different sections! All those things turned to make the whole harmony better! Even this pandemic incident is a negative thing, we can still get something out of it and make benefit from them. Today is Easter Sunday.
The energy is something very special here. The energy is gentle, people are smiley with aloha, and the air has something special in it on this island. Yesterday's sky was so gorgeous with so many beautiful clouds. One of them looked like a phoenix or dragon. I was starting at it for a while. Then, an airplane flew in the sky near there. Later, the same kind of 2 airplanes were flying side by side without much distance each other! They looked so close and flying to the same direction. Wow. I heard from the beach guards that they were military planes and doing a training for the military formation. I went to pray to Mauna Kea again. I was praying at the place I could see the whole mountain and pray to them. Then, I tried to drive home, but It was such a beautiful day. I wanted to stay a little longer there. I came out of the car, and then, saw an owl flying again! (I saw it the other day) It was Pueo, a Hawaiian owl. http://fws.gov/refuge/Hakalau_Forest/wildlife_and_habitat/pueo.html What a beautiful and amazing creature! He(She) was flying above the grasses. It was hovering for a while! The Pueo must have been hunting. I chat with a couple taking a walk. he said it hunts usually at the dusk or dawn. It was a mid-day then. Watching Pueo is said to be a good luck. Pueo is considered to be a sacred animal in Hawaii. Pueo is an 'aumakua (Hawaiian family god) for our Hanai Mom's family. Pueo is a symbol of Wisdom. It has a long and big wings. I was thinking how their hunting targets feel when they fly to them swiftly. They would be terrified to see the big face approaching with the big wings. They may get freaked out and frozen...... |
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April 2021
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