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June 30, 2006
patience
another beautiful sunny day here in the middle of the ocean. i'm sitting at the red elephant cafe here in chinatown. it's really nice to just be able to hang out in a coffee shop in the middle of the day. i'm on call for one of our moms right now. she's just starting the whole birthing process. it's a very weird space to be in, being on call for babies. i'm in this space, where you can't quite fully commit to anything, be in the flow of just "what is", constantly checking in with my intuition, as well as my intellect, and be ready for anything...waiting patiently.
i checked out the waves at our break this morning. windy, chunky, although some really nice sets every so often. i went out last night with my "loaner" board from kimo. bright yellow 9'0", thruster set up, with big fat rails. i put a few good dings in a couple of our boards. i've been resistant about gettting them fixed, for fear of missing out on my water time. i must say i'm attached to my single fin buddha board...it's become an extension of me.
i truly enjoy soul surfing. i've been going out at sunset, although it's windy & crazy...i just sit out deep, watch, listen & feel. every once in a while, i'll hop off my board and just float on my back. it's so amazing how my good days are when i'm completely in tune with the ocean & not getting caught up in where the line up is, where everyone's sitting. i've been catching some fat, juicy waves. it's sooo much fun!!! single fin teases me about how i sit out deep and just want the big bomber waves. i tried the baby waves, it's just not the same. i'm willing to wait.
once again, just paying tribute to how truly healing nature is.
Posted by soul sista' at 06:12 PM | Comments (1)
June 27, 2006
"nourishment" to-do list...
just got back from a solo sunset surf session. the waves were bumpy, sloppy, the current was strong, and the wind was blowing hard. a typical "diamond head" session. as always, it's good to get in the water and cleanse the day away. my partner in crime, single fin is on a little adventure in seattle for a work, as well as play.
so this is my week to hold the fort down & spend some quality alone time. i made a little "nourishment" to-do list (in no particular order) for the week: buy a ukulele tuner @ Harry's, plant flowers in pots, make curtains for my treatment room, sew my eye pillow, do my toe nails, cook something new, rearrange/clean room, call friends & family, light incense, pick flowers everyday for my hair, find new music, do yoga, run, hike, dance, journal, meditate, get a new haircut, buy leafy green vegetables, go to an Erykah Badu concert, go to the country, hang out in a coffee shop, make a new friend...this is my preliminary list for now.
and of course, i'm still on call for a handful of babies and seeing clients during the day. we just had one on sunday evening. dad & mom got to deliver their baby. we were on the sidelines, making sure everything was okay.
it's almost time for bed. another day tomorrow...full of self-nourishment & opportunity. sweet dreams.
Posted by soul sista' at 11:59 PM | Comments (0)
June 23, 2006
light trades & swell in town for the weekend!
ziiiiinnnnnga!
nice light trades this morning with cotton candy pink clouds for a dawn patrol session. small kine waves to be had by all with a low tide at neg .3ft. still had mad fun catching some chest high rollers.
ssw/sse swell on the rise over the weekend. should be a fun time with lots of sun burns.
a typical friday morning session followed up by a cruz breakfast!
musubi's, mini-shaka's & java all across the board this early am.
sf ~
Posted by Single Fin at 01:29 PM | Comments (0)
sunset sessions
been surfing at sunsets lately. to many things to do in the morning i suppose. plus the trades have been hella gusty in the early mornings. nice to be getting into the gruve with the night time crews. seems like now soul sista & i can surf pretty much anytime of the day @ dh & know the line up. lots of regulars.
anyhow...fun small waves all this past week. good to get out and practice late take offs & more turning friving with the legs. all in all good fun.
Posted by Single Fin at 01:26 PM | Comments (0)
June 20, 2006
thoughts pointing the way
what you think influences what you see. what you think
influences what you do.
what you think influences what you learn. what you think
influences how you feel.
what you think has an enormous impact on the way you
experience life. what you think determines the very nature
of the world you create for yourself.
thoughts have no physical mass, yet they do indeed have
power. and there are no restraints or limitations upon what
you can think.
consider all the many places to which your thoughts have
carried you. imagine the limitless possibilities of where
your thoughts can now enable you to go.
choose positive, creative, loving, life-affirming thoughts.
and with those thoughts pointing the way, you can fill your
world with value.
~ralph marston
Posted by soul sista' at 11:15 AM | Comments (0)
June 19, 2006
mother nature is the boss
a fresh new week coming up, full of endless possibilities...wednesday is the summer solstice. i can't believe it's that time of year again, the beginning of summer. summertime has always been a time of playing in nature to its fullest, connecting with friends & making new, a time full of creativity & spontaneity for me. the sun rises early here, 5:30am and sets pretty late, 7:15pm. so the longest day of the year is coming up. we're doing our annual sunset potluck on the beach. we've decided that it's going to be a tradition for us here on the islands. what a better way to spend the longest day of the year, than to connect with people, watching the sunset on the beach?!!
a nice week-end of a couple of surf sessions, being tossed around in the surf. yesterday, was our typical diamond head day. the trade winds have been blowing, so we're constantly paddling against the current. an ocassional kite boarder, or wind surfer, skims past you at high speed on the windy days. yesterday for me, was about being humbled. mother nature was showing me who was boss. i'm perfectly fine with that :) dropping in on a few monster waves, getting thrown off in every direction, my board flying up in the air doing its own acrobatic moves, my bikini falling down and being pulled up over my head at times...there's never a moment when i don't laugh at myself for being humbled.
and the most eye opening, jaw dropping sight yesterday was spotting a tiger shark (at least 10 feet) in the distance skimming by in a wave...just a ways out from where i was. i pulled in all my limbs, layed on my board and just watched it's graceful body glide through the water. the crazy thing is that for a moment in time, i felt at such peace deep within watching it.
and there you have it, mother nature showing us who's boss.
Posted by soul sista' at 11:38 AM | Comments (0)
June 17, 2006
quotes of the day...
be the change that you want to see in the world.
~ghandi
at the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
~martin luther king, jr.
i have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
~mother theresa
if in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. this is the most basic kind of peace work.
~thich nhat hahn
Posted by soul sista' at 12:11 AM | Comments (0)
June 15, 2006
code monkey like tab
i have a guy in my studio who drinks this...
all i can say is that he drinks tab, and it has nothing to do with style or retro. its only cuz its on sale!! LOL
in hawaii tab soda can be found everywhere. its NEVER been pulled from the market here.....
Posted by Single Fin at 09:09 PM | Comments (1)
co-pilot
soul sista u want to go surfing tonight?
"c'mon c'mon lets go go go :-) "
Posted by Single Fin at 06:19 PM | Comments (1)
creds
love this station...!!!!!
www.kexp.org
doooo it!
Posted by Single Fin at 12:33 PM | Comments (0)
one wave set
last night at 3's was humpy, bumpy & the spray off the back was like hail pelting you in the face.
soulsita and i surfed for about 2hours. most of that was waiting for swell to come in.
yet...when it did it was super fun. great rides when you could get them.
once i waited for 40 minutes to catch a one wave set. can't complain though...twas a small kine cover up barrel.
soulsista by far has more of an ability to sit and wait. in the end though she ended up catching some sweet set waves and had all the boys hooting for her.
sf~
Posted by Single Fin at 12:03 PM | Comments (0)
June 14, 2006
wax'm up...it's show time on da island
gonna be hard to sleep tonight! u can hear the surf crackin. yeeeeeehhhaaaaaaa!
dawn patrol is in true order.
soulsista surfed publics & queens tonight. said it was well over head on the outside sets. she said she caught the wave of the year for her (so far that is), and it twas a couple feet over head going backside on a single fin with pigtails flapping in the breeze. now that's what i'm talking about!! make me proud like a dad er something.:-)
"...SURF:
North & West side:
Primetime Pipeline in June????? A long interval 6'-10' west swell had Pipe and some of the outer reefs popping on King Kamehameha Day. It had all the fixins of mid-December with sunshine, offshore trades, big crowds, photographers, wipeouts, injuries, and lots of heaving barrels. Not only was the quality and size of the swell rare for this time year, but the acute westerly direction (300-310 degrees) made this one an extremely unusual episode. A macking SSW is due later this week.
South side:
3-5 ft. - waist to head high with occasional 6 ft. and good conditions.
A mix of both fading and building SSW(185-200) swells provide surf in the 3-4/5’ range on the face at the better exposed breaks. Standouts are slightly overhead.
Outlook through Monday Jun 19. The new south swell is expected to produce surf above the high surf advisory level of 8 feet for the south shore on Wednesday. The surf will decrease only slowly, probably below advisory level late Thursday, but then rise again to advisory level early Saturday.
Surf heights are forecast heights of the face or front of waves. The surf forecast is based on the significant wave height in the zone of maximum refraction. Some waves may be more than twice as high as the significant wave height..."
cough cough....i think some of those favors @ work this week might get cashed in as a sick day.
stoked!
sf~
Posted by Single Fin at 12:42 AM | Comments (0)
June 12, 2006
surf's up
choppy 4ft to 6ft swell in town for the week. bummer is that trade winds are in town as well.
no worries...so be it. gives us more obstacles to zip around, jump over, slash through etc.
its been hotter then hell the past week. at least 90 on the hot days without a cloud in sight to hide behind. the ocean has been all kinds of crazy shades of blues. surfed all weekend. nothing to blog about..well i guess now that i think about it...for all you folks back home on the eastern seaboard...its heaven. sorry for being a lame ass... suppose i need to count my lucky stars more eh?
Posted by Single Fin at 11:27 PM | Comments (0)
waves of aloha...
coming down from a whirlwind of a week-end. the adrenaline is still pumping into my veins...it's almost 3 am & i can't sleep yet. the moon is still full, brightly lit outside our window illuminating the city from overhead. a perfect night to full moon surf.
i was just supposed to be a doula (labor coach) for one of my moms in the hospital. our OB/Gyn wasn't around. he's playing tag team with another full moon pregnant mom. we hadn't seen him all night. it was just me, grandma alternating with dad, lily (the auntie nurse that let us do whatever we wanted), and mommy.
she wanted to give birth as naturally, as possible. things just started moving a little bit sooner than later. was it the discretely slipped homeopathics, the jacuzzi, the deep breathing exercises, the surrendering techniques, the walking, the rocking of the hips...or all of the above? she went from 6cm to 10cm in dilation, to giving birth in the jacuzzi at the hospital in 2 hours. as we all know around here, babies come when they want to come...there he was! right there in my hands.
it's an amazing feeling to be able to reach down and to feel a little baby's head coming out of mommy. that moment is so precious. nothing else matters but that moment. head came out first, then the shoulders, and then the rest of his little body. his cord was wrapped around his neck, so we had to do a little bit of unwinding before we put him on mommy's chest. a beautiful baby boy!! my very first jacuzzi hospital delivery.
alas, there's never a dull moment here on the island. earlier today, i ran 1/2 marathon with my housemate, got to surf a few waves to loosen up the legs and cool off, spent some quality sisterhood time at a mother's blessing party out in the country, and then off to the hospital. yesterday & friday was about getting the wave of the day. sitting out deep & earning some respect in the line up by catching the wave of the day and being a girl on top of it all!!
i also got a personal apology from one of the local boys for "yelling" at me last week for being in his way. he told me that it wasn't my fault and that he was in the wrong. he's this big hawaiian guy that always sits out deep with a big yellow board. and since i like to sit out deep, as well, i get to compete with these big guys with their big boards, as well with their big egos. i usually don't take it personal & shrug it off to the fact that they must have bigger problems in life. it's so very interesting to see their personalities come out in the way they surf. some are in their own world, some like to take up a lot of space, some like to "snake" waves from girls, and some are true gentlemen, like single fin...
i just keep on surfing, some weeks more often than others. this weeks been more often, since it's been so hot here. i've learned from uncle phil, my surf mentor, that it's about quality not quantity. and so i sit out deep, watch the waves out in the distance, observe mother nature in the ocean, keep an eye on the sneaky short boarders, let waves go by & be courteous to those who were there before me...waiting for the wave that decides to choose me. it is an amazing feeling to be going down the wall, swerving up & down the face, feeling my braided pig tails flying in the wind. once again, nothing else matters but that moment in time.
hope you are all well, nurturing your soul in some way everyday. 'sending you all waves of aloha from the big blue sea...
love & peace,
soul sista'
Posted by soul sista' at 04:56 AM | Comments (0)
June 09, 2006
with my feet in the air & my head on the ground...
in my mind i wonder about an end & a beginning
in my mind i drift around lifes events trying to discover some type of reference/clues to questions
in my mind i struggle with why abstract thoughts are not more of a part of my day
i spoke with my friend today. she is a wonderful person. a true freedom fighter of life against cancer. she's beaten it twice. we talked about knowing and not knowing.
both of us ironically traveling in the same space. she questioned my comment in that regard. my response was..."what's the difference? to know or not to know?
the moment is all that matters. this one...that one. all of them at that second is all that truly exists.
to plan & dream is a great honor, to live that dream or any dream is even a more robust life.
in my mind i will not lay down and suffer. in my mind i will pick up the pieces.
a smile and a wink at myself is all the encouragement i need to keep moving forward.
in my mind, my friend & i stand at the same door. she has her path, i have mine. both of us looking at new beginnings...
Posted by Single Fin at 01:43 PM | Comments (0)
June 08, 2006
the taste of steel
to be frank....& this may offend some people...but i have zero respect for stupid _ucken people.
if you can't get the _uck out of your own way. well then...you just might have to suffer the responsibility of your stupidness.
its a good thing that the cop was 2 cars ahead of me when that fat ass, big car driven, dumpy beer belly american picked me off. maybe the smell of jack'n da box had his eyes perkin up at the time? there is a line in my world, its a dark place that lives alone & contained. but when i picked myself up off the pavement, wiped the blood off, limped over to him...all i wanted to do was split his head open. i don't get pissed that much, but getting hit by a 4 door full size car & getting thrown over the hood is a sure fire way to get me in a rage.
thankfully for him & me the cop was there by the time i could get all my marbles in one spot.
on the brighter side...i'm alive. helmet saved my mellon.
can't let shit like this bring me down.
fuck'um
sf ~
Posted by Single Fin at 05:09 PM | Comments (1)
tuck & roll...
my poor baby got in a bike accident today. he was biking to work and some dude who was hungry for "jack in the box", turned into the parking lot & hit him. honolulu is definitely the most dangerous city to bike in. a lot people seem to be on their own little island within an island.
thankfully, he's tough. he knows how to tuck & roll over hoods of cars. he wore his helmet too. that definitely saved him.
so, he's icing his ankle, taking hits of rescue remedy for stress & shock, a few doses of arnica for the muscle trauma, rubbing some arnica traumeel over his ankle, icing as much as possible, and hopefully, avoiding coffee today.
we're gonna try to get him out of work early, jump in the water and surf away some of the accident for the day. the water is always so healing here. and then we'll do some cranio-sacral tonight to rebalance his equilibrium.
Posted by soul sista' at 01:27 PM | Comments (1)
June 06, 2006
mumbo jumbo
"The new track is steering storms from south of new zealand to the northeast, setting up captured fetches in the 190-200 degree band. The first in the series reached as far equatorward as 35°S latitude or about 3500 nm SSW of Hawaii today, although peak wind speeds were only 35 knots with most winds 30 knots. This energy should arrive next Monday with moderate to near high heights. The second similar pulse should arrive a few days later.
In general, consistent moderate to near high surf is expected starting this coming weekend out about 10 days from 180-200 degrees with peak days in the low-end high range. Trades are expected to increase to moderate levels and hold early next week...."
NOAA.gov ~
Posted by Single Fin at 11:44 PM | Comments (0)
single speed hawaiian style
enough said...
now where is da board? :-}
Posted by Single Fin at 05:26 PM | Comments (1)
June 05, 2006
for all you "LOST" junkies out there
so.....soul sista and i were out hiking yesterday up in north shore. came across some plane wreckage along the way.
can any of you tell me what these looks like?
Posted by Single Fin at 02:49 PM | Comments (0)
crafty
dropped by kimo's to start mulling over some shapes with him.
just a few shots to keep the thoughts moving of where is starts to hopefull its new home.
(not me in the photo, but it is a shot from "bowls" from last weeks swell. however...with a little luck this proto-rocket will be in a very similar situation if i get to be a lucky enough bastard :-)
Posted by Single Fin at 02:41 PM | Comments (0)
another day in paradise....
winding down from another week-end in paradise. it's sunday night, single fin's off to go catch a korean flick. i've decided to stay back, have a little chill time to myself and go to bed early, so i can be up bright and early for meditation with my housemate. she just came back from the vipassana meditation retreat. we've decided on doing 5am monday meditations together. a good way to start the week.
it's funny, how it can be so easy to take what we have for granted. every so often, we can take this place for granted. you wake up, the sun is almost always shining, the birds are always chirping, the beach is always within a few miles distance, the air is always clean, with some occasional vog (volcanic smog) coming in from the big island, the mountains are our backyard, fragrant flowers fill the air...same thing over and over again. sometimes it's like groundhog day here. what month is it, anyway?
i've realized that when i am able to let things go & not hang on to this place that we live in called, paradise, that i am able to cherish each moment that much more.
and so our week-end was filled with surfing till the sun sets into the night, a hike up in the north shore overlooking the great pacific ocean, dancing to brazilian music, cat naps in the middle of the day, watching sunsets on the beach, some video game playing, reading to read (not because i have to), quality time with loved ones, eating good food that nourishes our soul & tummies....and no work!
i'm on call for 3 pregnant moms right now. so, i'm enjoying this peaceful time to myself until i have to rush off in the wee hours of the night to assist.
we have this saying here, "if someone isn't dying or birthing, there's really no need to stress out". that really seems to put things in perspective.
plans to get off the island and visit friends and family on the mainland. we've officially booked our tickets to seattle for august. we're looking forward to visiting our last home & reuniting with everyone. and then the next stop is back to the east coast for the holidays. it's been quite sometime since we've been back. it's funny, living here out in the middle of the ocean. once you finally make it out here, it's so hard to get off the island.
loving alohas, peace & namaste
~ss
Posted by soul sista' at 12:58 AM | Comments (2)
June 04, 2006
deeper shade of soul
double session today with soul sista.
morning session was just about getting out & about. coupla waves & off for some java & the paper. the sunset session was much more fun. great waves about chest high with ample amounts off room on the shoulder to nail some decent cut backs, rollercoasters & cannon balls off the lip.
surfed until all the crowds left & the bats came out.
after this swell, the both of us are several shades darker. soulsista is so brown that its not even funny. the only thing white on her that's noticeable from a distance is her teeth.
like monkey though....the palms of her hands & feet are still a nice shade of pink..!?!!
hmmmm could she be going back to her roots? i knew she had a hankering for fruit and nanners for a reason.
Posted by Single Fin at 12:56 AM | Comments (0)
spanked
surfed flies last night after work. sets rolling in big near the harbors channel. felt a little creepy out. big ass close outs & of course being near the harbor gives me the creeps at times. mainly due to the amounts of fishing boats & what not chuggy by dumping whatever they can before they hit the harbor inlet. i hear there is a big anchor wedged into a rock at this break as well.
greeeeaaat. if the 8ft high 75yrd close outs dont' kick your ass...or the sharks swim by you..now you gotta look out for an anchor that can be anywhere from 5ft high up to 8.
needless to say...i went in after the 3rd time i was tossed over the falls. got my bell rung several time & sent me in spanked!
Posted by Single Fin at 12:49 AM | Comments (0)
June 02, 2006
head high & glassy on cloud 9
yups....it's another day here in paradise. 80degrees, bursty orange sunrise w/ some nice faded patchy clouds.
decided to save the arms last night & head out at 5am this morning. suppose that counts as 3 sessions in one 24hr period? yeah yeah...kinda lame i know. yet believe it or not it was a good call. stroked out for the long paddle to 3's this morning with low to no winds. decent tide shift happening & a straight up south swell coming in at head high on the average sets. first wave i see in the twee hours of morning light is this local guy dropping in on a couple feet over head glassy barrel. sweeeet cover up & a nice deep pitted stoked grin. all the line-up was chattering like hens.
the skin was tingling i was so amp'd. only about 12 guys out & plenty of glass walls to be had. i have no idea why my luck was so good today...but i was catching some of the best waves i've had since last summer. head high, long glassy teal blue zingers with plenty of shoulder to rip some cut backs & scoot to the nose. even had a nice little small kine cover up. nothing to high 5 about...but enough to get the juice pumping in the veins.
some guys had the rides of the session. maybe even for them the rides of the spring time. the looks on their faces was of pure joy. nice fat head high sets with amp'd older guys charging the face. drops were tight & the peak quickly filled up with about 50 guys. caught a few more & just thanked my lucky stars for the waves sent to me.
lots of sunshine, a pack of 20 dolphins swung by the line-up & the waves just kept coming in.
i'm so stoked that cloud 9 is my home today.
Posted by Single Fin at 12:32 PM | Comments (0)
June 01, 2006
nooner
nice out at flies today. head high teal blue sets with quick sections cranking in over head on the close out sets. twas able to sneak a 1/2 dozen waves in during lunch. toasty ass hot out there in the sun today.
can't wait for tonights session. i'm thinking pops, paradise and a cold mai tai after that.
sf~
Posted by Single Fin at 06:34 PM | Comments (634)
post AM session
kinda wonkie out this morning. hit diamond head for the dawn patrol session. rights was looking good with some bigger sets every 30minutes. looked like lighthouse was getting the brunt of the southern swell though. spent some time at mansions catching some wicked choppy, funky head high close outs. kinda fun getting your bell rung at that break.
gearing up for th lunch time session.....
Posted by Single Fin at 01:26 PM | Comments (1)
in search of stoke
yup...looking like there is some decent action on the brew. headed out to diamond head for a 2hour sunset session. good waves, nice sunset, warm water & decent winds. credits go out to soul sista for getting one of the best beatings/ maytag's of the night. as you may or may not know....she has a habit of sitting deep & out waiting almost everybody for the best waves of the night. which brings me to the point...that this over head monster warbeled wave was coming in, so i looked to my left to see if she was taking off. all i could see was this guy falling down this 8ft face & next to him was her screaming trying to pig dog the rails & go right. in a way it looked very enchanting. cute looking pig tailed local girl smoking a local guy with an 8ft monster rolling on on the skylines sunset. bright blarring sunshine blinding all of the details out. but.....the lip kicked up and so to did soul sista.
so i quickly popped up once i realized she was gonna get munched. couldn't let that one go by unridded. such a great wave, which lead me to believe that tomorrow morning will be fun fun fun. especially since high tide was @ 1.8ft & killing the head high sets. high tide tomorrow is .5ft ! yeah!
wax'm up cowboys.....i think tomorrow is a crack of darkness dawn patrol session to be followed up with a nice lunch time session & then .....if all goes right we'll be hitting a sunset session.
it's been a day dream of mine to triple session. maybe even a bit of a sickness? is stoke a sickness? last week i surfed so much that my arms felt like lead 3 days later. but the hunger never ends. i can't even drive by the waves lately without watching, looking, rubber necking or getting out of the car for a lookie luu set.
its a wicked sickness i tell ya. all i can do is indulge.
Posted by Single Fin at 12:52 AM | Comments (0)