Showing posts with label O`ahu. Show all posts
Showing posts with label O`ahu. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 4, 2012

J.Krishnamurti, an Empty Heineken, and a Little bit of Independence



            “Did you see where it go?”
            “Nah. But I think so, it went down when he try and catch –“ is barely off my lips before Makalohi glides across the beach and dives easily under the waves.
            It is a perfect blue of a day on O`ahu - the water, the sky, the light - all brilliant and crisp in a multitude of hues: azure, turquoise and periwinkle. Standing along the shoreline in Waimanalo at a child’s birthday party, one of the littler attendees had retrieved an adult’s empty green bottle, using it to play water games. One quick wave, and the empty Heineken buoyed away from the child into the deeper waters just out of reach.
            Makalohi’s brother tried to retrieve the empty bottle, but his little arms and legs, where unable to reach. Unable to stand by and watch, his sister slipped into the ocean to retrieve the unattended mess.
            “Is she looking for something?” a little girl of about six, in a navy and hot pink Hello Kitty bathing suits asks.