Just another Sunday morning in Kaaawa.
You would think that after walking the beach in Kaaawa at least 5,000 mornings over nearly 16 years, it would become tired, old, and more than a little boring. Wrong. It’s still a feast for the senses, each day a little different, maybe a lot different, than the day before. It never gets boring. On the other hand, I wish I could say the same for the commute into town.
In any case, here’s are a few photos taken earlier today. Just click on any photo for a larger version.
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Just one of those days.
I like the middle photo best. In the closeup, one can see the army of telephone poles along the road. I like telephone poles because they seem more authentic and retro. You might not like this idea, but to me burying phone lines is kind of yuppy-ish.
Most of us no longer really need phone lines, and if “distributed generation” ever becomes a reality, we won’t need high voltage power lines either. So telephone poles might become a part of latter-day commercialized pseudo-Hawaiiana, just like 1970s-style tiki lounges.
In some ways, Lee Cataluna reminds me of quasi-Hawaiiana. She went to some semi-elite school called U of the Pacific (which I never heard of) and she does think critically, unlike the majority of the readers of her newspaper. But in a small town way, she seems to personalize this issue of Abercrombie’s anniversary in Paris. There is something hybrid about her, and I’ve always found that somewhat pleasing.
She grew up in the 1970s and 1980s, which was her adolescent period, but that was also Hawaii’s adolescence, when Hawaii was fast losing its provincial innocence.
In some ways, we no longer live in such an innocent society as it was in our childhoods, as it is rather cynical and corrupt now. But it is still very ignorant and provincial. Because of this, the future looks bleak for Hawaii, I think. Those who sense that, move to California, as Cataluna have done. Those who stay are happy in their unenlightened state of consciousness.
Wish I could take such beautiful pictures of the “scenery” where I live. Yeah, right! Pictures of boring houses and ugly front lawns. lol.
I’d be a better person if I could talk myself into getting up a half hour earlier every morning and taking a walk before work. Your photos are definitely inspiring me to try harder! Mahalo.