The Adventures of LitBoy: Bill Brent's Blog

the '70s, redux

in our pursuit
to get loose
we then forgot
to hang tight

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Wishing you a beautiful day,

Bill Brent

[this page last updated: 2008.06.11, 7:15 p.m. Hawaii time]

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2007.03.10, Picture of the Day, Big Island of Hawaii

HAWAIIAN SKY IN FOUR MOVEMENTS

ABOVE AND BELOW: Sunday, February 18, 2007, late afternoon.
Ocean View Estates, Hawaii Island. Elevation 3,600 feet.

Lani (Hawaiian): sky; heaven; spiritual; noble.

We zoom across the desert, the ocean, and the sky. We think we know something. We barely have a clue. We cannot see how dark this Dark Age really is, so dark is it here that we can barely see each other.

—me

And when I see you
constantly changing
Never the same as, never remaining
I cannot fix you in a position
Where I would lose you out of my vision
For you are movement
And that is nothing

—Stuart Moxham, "Constantly Changing,"
from the Young Marble Giants album, Colossal Youth (1979, Rough Trade)

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Wishing you a beautiful day,

—Bill Brent

All original photos on this website belong to Bill Brent. If you want to re-use something here, please ask. Higher resolution images are available.

The view from my window

Tall trees sway in the Hawaiian woods on a windy day in the midst of winter. A charged tingle seems to reverberate through the thicket, but it's an optical illusion, a moiré created through a scrim of faint-falling rain before the wall of Ohia trees; the upheld branches sway, and the fine, tiny leaves shimmer. The trees shift back and forth, like dancers in some ancient tribal hula.

Now the rain beats harder against the earth, compelling the birds to shelter in the branches of these old, gnarled trees. The rain leaves. Intermittent sunlight grows shadows on the wind, as the branches whip against the pallid sky. The wind leaves. The trees, still. Ohias, like me, are patient opportunists: flexible limbs and shallow roots, bending through nature into shapes that never could have been foreseen.

Grow very slowly. Watch yourself in motion. Notice what shimmers in your presence.

 

More of my Ohia pictures:

http://litboy.typepad.com/photos/0701hawaii/070130ohiacardinalmale.jpg

http://litboy.typepad.com/photos/0701hawaii/070130darkohiassky.jpg

Description:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrosideros_polymorpha

More scientific:

http://www.na.fs.fed.us/pubs/silvics_manual/volume_2/metrosideros/polymorpha.htm

NOTE: "Ohia" rhymes with "Korea."