After the rains...........

It POURED last night. I had not heard or felt the rain since arriving and it was the strangest feeling to me. I smiled and closed my eyes and found myself blending with the sound. Rain in the tropics is different than on the mainland. Growing up in Vancouver I am more than familiar with the wet stuff but here, on Kauai, it is simply different. Funny how I seemed to want to become the rain as it fell. It was full of power and knowing how dry it gets here, I know that it is a life giving remedy to the land. Perhaps that is what was occuring for me. I was blending with the life giving force of the wet stuff.

I have now been here for one full week and it is as if I never left. Connecting daily with the friends who are still here. As Kauai can be a transitional place for many of us, there are many more friends with whom I was close who are no longer here. They are spread out all over the place but knowing that there will always be some who will never leave, I know that I can always return to this safe sacred place.

And now, this morning after the rains, the day has dawned once more clear, bright and sunny. You gotta love it. I am feeling kind of slow today and a tad emotional but then again, that seems to be my normal way of being. The emotional part of me is pulled to the surface here on a daily basis. I'm not saying that I am sad or anything but there is a part of me that is trying to still figure it all out............ME, that is....trying to figure me out...........smile

And once I do, you will be the first to know.

Blessings and Aloha