Beauty can be found everywhere in Hawaii. Everywhere you look there are palm trees and flowering trees like hibiscus and plumeria. Where we stayed in Kapoho, the trees and leaves towered over us on many roads. It felt like we were in the jungle. Nature out there is vibrating and pulsating.
But in the Volcano National Park, you can see the starkness of nature. You can see how the lava flow took everything with it and how it took millions of years for just one plant or insect to make its appearance again. Still, on many parts of The Big Island, that nothingness is there.
I think this is the beauty of the island. It has primordial feel. You start to understand how the world began. There's wind, earth, fire and water. All the natural elements mingling together to give new life.
On the Big Island, I understood so much more. I realized that humans, with all there gadgets and technology, have perhaps lost touch with where we came from and how we came here. That perhaps we aren't the most intelligent beings.
On the Big Island, I saw locals communicate with dolphins and swim with them. I saw that they had a connection to the wildlife and the emptiness there. They were all interconnected.
Have we lost this?
I've never felt more alive than I have on this island. Even though I live in Washington State, which is known for its nature, mountains and trees, it also has an urban sprawl like all other cities.
In most cities, everything is created for the comfort of humans with not much thought about how nature plays a part in it all.
Seeing this red flower blooming brightly in the blackness of the crater in Hawaii brought me back to a time before humans. A time when the earth lived in harmony with all that was around it.
There was a time when humans communicated with this nature, when life was centered around it.
I want to live in communion with nature. I want to hear her calls and her messages. I want to listen deeply. For there, I believe, all the answers lie.
Do you commune with nature often? Where do you do this and how do you feel?
ReplyDeleteJust wanted to say that I have truly enjoyed reading every one of your Hawaii posts for both discovering about the beauty of the place as well as your experiences there...your encounter with the volcano was especially incredible to read about:)
I greatly enjoy communing with nature - in fact, there is only so much I can take of cities/urban spaces before I need to seek the refuge of mountains/beaches/forests. It is akin to a spiritual experience and completely recharges me.
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ReplyDeleteNature told rather taught me that though my life is the victim of unwanted change,it is the one strong protective whole around me,one never changing attitude,constant with all its phenomena.And it did console me.