By Jill Steele
Author "Blood on the Orchids"
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| From the street in front of our house. |
It has been a long week. Last Sunday seems so long ago. Post Mother's Day week is traditionally slow in the flower business but this week was alarmingly slow. I am attributing this to the media's sensationalizing of the lava flow, as if something as at once spectacular and terrible as this current one needs additional publicizing.
As well, it has been very hard to focus on anything besides it as my mind keeps coming back to the same few topics, which include:
Where is the lava and what is it doing now?
Who is in the neighborhood today and where did everyone go?
When is the water going to be on/off?
When is my heartbeat going to return to normal?
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| May 19 Pohoiki Boat Ramp |
Today I have banned myself from social media after realizing how compulsive I have become. Today my phone is just a phone and for communicating one on one. My daughter has asked for another blog post though. Is blogging social media?
Our water was off for 36 hours this week but I reminded myself it was a small hardship compared to what those who have lost homes now face.
Our community yoga class, for which I am so grateful, especially during this time, has dwindled from 10 to 4 people due to logistics and evacuations. We who remain are finding community and peace through our practice and through sharing our stories and worries before and after class. Yoga is about finding balance and peace through the movements combined with breathing and I find I need it now more than ever.
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| May 19 near Champagne Pond |
We have continued our daily rides to view and photograph the eruption, by bike during the day and by truck at night We use the pictures to both appease and astound those who don't live here. My mother-in-law needs constant reassurance that we are stlll okay and we will continue to send her daily photos as proof we are still safe.
I was relieved to hear the news of the lava reaching the ocean this morning. I am trying to imagine the earth's release and this eruption coming to an end.
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