Mauna a Wākea Apocalyptica

Best $6 I’ll spend this week — Island Lava Java in Kona — Bar tender was from Maine, couple that sat down next to me, also from Maine. This happens all the time. There is a massive diaspora of Mainers across the U.S. What it means for the country, we can only guess at this point.

A gecko pooped on Mary Oliver this morning. I somehow think she didn’t even mind.

Finished reading (2021): The Emigrants by W. G. Sebald 📚

A piercing look into carried history. Finishing Sebald is always like waking up from a dream—whether dark or splendid I’m never sure.

Kīlauea Volcano

Eucalyptus (regnans?) • Kalōpā State Park

There are about 13 rainbows a day in Waimea

“Mere life is interesting enough. . . . I had always vaguely felt facts to be miracles in the sense that they are wonderful.” – GK Chesterton

Messalonskee Lake - 21April2018 - at the Maine Arts Academy

Finished reading (2021): Bonhoeffer’s Religionless Christianity in Its Christological Context by Peter Hooton 📚

As expected, this did not disappoint. I don’t remember the last time a book on theology so thoroughly resonated with me. Though it remains limited in definition and shape, I have to think that there is an abundant, and growing, number of people, especially those in the current “deconstruction” movement, hungry for exactly what Bonhoeffer had in mind, to which Hooton has done diligent justice. I will definitely have more to say.