Musings: Ho'okupu

Navy-blue canopy choke with constellations, navigational stars, planets — Jupiter overhead, Venus a wide arm's length from a grinning white-gold moon hovering above an orange-pink smudge in the east.

Down to the beach, moon and planets dimming, Waialeale adorned in a lei of wispy clouds. Embers glow on the horizon above a gray-blue sea that catches fire as a red ball rises into a pale sky, illuminating a throw-net fisherman creeping along the edge of the reef as boobies soar and dip, also seeking prey, and honey bees nuzzle nectar from heliotrope blossoms along the shore.

Heart fills, with love, gratitude, appreciation, and I offer it to the exquisite morning, the beautiful, troubled world.