Fascinating morning with Herb Kane, a Hawaiian artist, historian and anthropologist whom a Chicago friend introduced us to. He’s in his 80’s now, but gamely drove us down to Kaleakalua Bay (above), where Captain Cook was killed in 1779; and then on to Pu’uhonua o Honaunau, a royal residence and ancient area of sanctuary. Unbelievably […]
“Ho hum … another day, another volcano” you may be saying to yourself. But what a volcano: Mauna Kea, at nearly 13,800 ft / 4,200 m or so, is Hawaii’s tallest. If you measured it from it’s ocean-floor base, it’d top Everest by a good three quarters of a mile, apparently … It’s a holy […]
These pictures of Tony today (of which I admit to being rather proud …) somehow sum up why it is that I love him so very much; and why this experience we’re both sharing is so amazing. So often, he does those things that all of us want to do … I’ll say no more […]
Slightly against my expectations, I really liked Honolulu and Waikiki. Tourist honey-pot without a doubt; but it does it so well and in such a laid-back way that I just relaxed into it. Hilo, the Big Island’s capital is the anti-Honolulu: low rise, slow-paced, a bit alternative, and with an air of genteel and contented […]
Did you know that it’s not so much blood that sharks go for, as a fluttering heartbeat? They sense the flutter, and interpret it (rightly) as weakness. The above isn’t on zoom by the way … they really were that close. I was rather glad to be in a cage (and thank God I hadn’t […]
Another ‘high contrast’ one I meant to upload in the previous post. This one’s Montana, again under a light dusting of snow. But … it could be the moon … or a seismic image of the ocean floor … or a bone surface under an electron microscope … anywhere your imagination takes you really. I […]
For someone leaving one career behind for another, it was an afternoon replete with metaphor: Drake decided to do the annual burn of their slice of prairie. Very primal. Bye bye old … hello new. Tony helped, wielding the fire-starter with slightly worrying abandon (see his description here). Below: three of me (completely unintentionally) living […]
On the new 425m / 1400ft glass-floored ledges of the Willis (ex-Sears) Tower at lunchtime today. An apt visual metaphor for the the fact that – as most of you already know – after 22 amazing years, and many “Will I? Won’t I?” moments, I’m finally leaving the Office. Jump into the unknown … no […]
We’ve scented blood; and are in a bit of a tidying-frenzy at the moment (gay-man spring-clean equivalent of a feeding-frenzy …). Anyway: gender-assignment-stereotypes to one side: having (miraculously, in my eyes) entirely digitized our combined music and video collections … plus a lot more besides … Tony, over the last few weeks, has been joyously […]
On a cupboard-clearing expedition, and just as I was almost out of excuses anyway (too busy … neck injury … etc), I came across this postcard. I don’t think there’s any more to be said, really. I haven’t yet been able to establish a peer-reviewed, scientific link between this and the previous post (and in […]
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