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The canvas of twilight skyripens into a supreme backdropfor the show-offy sun shooting searchlight beamsthrough clouds hoveringjust above the horizon, sending angular streaksof bright orange the colorof fresh lava to create an ephemeral sky show.The photographer and Ihave long called … Continue reading →

(Thanksgiving Day, Poipu Beach, Kauai) At the beach park the touristsgather near sunset, not to gawk atthe ball of fire descending into the sea but at the bale of turtles who havetrudged their way up the beach, leavingtracks the size … Continue reading →

(In memory of Ed Kato, artist of Kalaupapa,on this day of thanksgiving) There, on a peninsula of great suffering,nearly a hundred years after thousands were banished to die, an artist pickedup his paintbrush again and again to record in oils … Continue reading →

(South shore Kauai, looking due south) I rise a bit before 4 a.m. on an errandof the night, surf sounds pulling meto the lanai to see what I might see, and there, while we’ve been sleeping,the all-night star show spreads … Continue reading →

(Lihue, Kauai) We haven’t been on the groundfor more than a couple hours when we hit the ABC Storefor milk and granola just as a lady in a green uniformcomes out with a tray and a pair of kitchen tongs … Continue reading →

(Keoneloa Beach/aka Shipwreck Beach, Kauai) Every big leap entails a huge risk,but the literal ones have us gaspingas we watch young people hurlingthemselves off a golden cliffinto the sea some 40 feet below. Still, we walk up top to see … Continue reading →

(for Kai Owens, our seatmate on our Nov. 19 flight to Hawaii) They start them here young,as little as two or four,on boogie boards in swellsso small they barely qualifyas waves. But that’s how you learn,my rangy seatmate on the … Continue reading →

When the rain lets up,I walk to the next block,stand beneath my favoriteginkgo in a neighbor’s yard. I knew its former caretakers,but they are long gone, whichhappens when you have livedin a place going on four decades. I’m leaving before … Continue reading →

(for Gerald and Lauren and Henry) Out past mown farmlandsun crushed by rain-weary cloudsreflected in shallow poolsof emptied fields— I have a trunk latch that needsfixing and a generous nephew-in-lawready to help, so I make a round-aboutcircuit, the back way … Continue reading →

You’re a year younger than I, which mightaccount for your youthful… well, everything,from your spectacular figure and eye-poppingblonde sheen— not that I’m jealous, though OK, I was,just a little, long ago—but honey, youclearly have a whole team of pros keepingyou … Continue reading →