Let me keep company always with those who say “Look!” and laugh in astonishment, and bow their heads.”
- Mary Oliver
Endangered Hawaiian Monk Seal photographed from afar.

Chicken Cacciatore! My culinary achievement today.

Half the harm that is done in this world
is due to people who want to feel important.
They don't mean to do harm,
but the harm does not interest them.
Or they do not see it, or they justify it
because they are absorbed in the endless struggle
to think well of themselves.
- TS Eliot, 1948

Trump, 79, Posts Himself as Christ After Bonkers Pope Attack The image depicts Trump as Jesus healing a sick person with his touch.

President Donald Trump followed a bizarre rant against Pope Leo XIV with an AI-generated image depicting himself as Jesus Christ.

One of today’s joys - walking in a light rain and seeing this plumeria and palm tree.

This:

Given what we all have been through this week, you deserve a photo of Kolohe and his squeaky pink pig.

Tostada with Canadian Bacon, sharp cheddar, heirloom tomato, corn, black beans, guacamole,vegan sour cream & mango salsa! Really ono!

Rice pasta, tomato sauce with ground beef and Parmesan - comfort food!

And that’s not taking into account the Iranian people, who are created and loved by God as much as any of us.

What a day of moral distress for those of us “regular people,” not in political or military power, who know this desire/threat of genocide is evil!

(To have) “Integrity compels Quakers to notice and address what goes against our testimonies of peace, equality, stewardship, simplicity, integrity, and community. That noticing and addressing — that action — is Quaker witness.”
— New York Quarterly Meeting

Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park is preparing for the next eruption of #Kīlauea volcano (ep. 44), increased visitation & potential for lava fountains & a wind shift from the south.
If Kīlauea erupts during southerly winds it could cause volcanic gas (vog) & tephra to blanket the summit.

IMG: #HVNP

Makapu’u, not Mokapu’u

Cooking ‘uala (Hawaiian sweet potatoes) with coconut cream, garlic, butter and apple banana. It will be mashed.

From the Southside to Eastside O’ahu

Who has time for so much beauty?
- Barbara Brown Taylor

Mokapu’u Lighthouse Trail hike. The brown water near shore is storm run-off. It is usually turquoise and dark blue.

Every war leaves our world worse than it was before. War is a failure of politics and humanity.

Pope Francis

Today’s caterpillar!

A moment of peace today.

"We are all meant to be mothers of God. What good is it to me if this eternal birth of the Divine Son takes place unceasingly, but does not take place within myself? And what good is it to me if Mary is full of grace, but I am not also full of grace? What good is it to me for the Creator to give birth to his Son if I do not also give birth to him in my time and culture? This, then, is the fullness of time: when the Son of God is begotten in us." Meister Eckhart

"We are all meant to be mothers of God. What good is it to me if this eternal birth of the Divine Son takes place unceasingly, but does not take place within myself? ...This, then, is the fullness of time: when the Son of God is begotten in us."

Meister Eckhart

The image includes the quotation below, along with a picture of Origen (an older man with a long white beard holding a scroll of Scripture): We no longer take up the sword against a nation, nor do we learn war anymore, having become sons of peace for the sake of Jesus. Origen

We no longer take up the sword against a nation, nor do we learn war anymore, having become sons of peace for the sake of Jesus.

Origen

At Please Come Again Hawaiian Ice Cream shop: a scoop of Mango Sticky Rice and Miso Salted Caramel underneath. It was so Ono/Delicious.

Bought Banana bread, Molasses sourdough bread, Asiago & Romano cheese bread, Strawberry Cream mini pie, Passion Pear mini pie, and Peach Pear mini pie. Veggies too.

Doing a lot of reading with Substack book clubs these days.

Early Quakers (1660) wrote this about war:

A lovely day for paddling, when the rain stopped!

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