First, Mahalo piha to the many of you who responded to my tender-hearted post yesterday. Iʻm gratified by your reminiscences and positive comments. These are all processes...
wake up call at five
more structural adjustments
her bed sinking still
And so it continues...life for those of us here at the summit region of Kīlauea includes daily doses of ʻōlaʻi of various sorts. Today it seems that the floor of Kaluapele is resettling itself. Itʻs one thing to look at the pretty red dots (ʻōlaʻi the last 2 hours) on an image, and quite another to feel each of the bigger ones. Lots in the M3+ish (the "M" is Magnitude) range this morning, depicted as the slightly bigger dots, while mists and light rains give way to morning sun...
And at Kumukahi, perhaps the same phenomena...structural adjustments. When fresh pele, nearly 400 heavy acres of it, is loaded onto a small area, what going happen? Maybe a little adjustment at Kumukahi, the east tip of Hawaiʻi nei. And to re-state: Iʻm not a seismologist, just an observer, so perhaps there are other explanations to the ʻōlaʻi today. If so, Iʻll let you know.
And yes, Māwae ʻEwalu (Fissure 8) remains active with 150+ foot fountains, and her river continues to flow into the ocean Pacific.
And Deformation:
We havenʻt shared this in awhile. The Summit tiltmeter at Uēkahuna continues its unabated downward trend,
And the unabated downward trend of Summit Deflation is demonstrated by the disappearance of the Halemaʻumaʻu Parking Lot into the Lua. The "Road to Nowhere" is the HVO caption, but itʻs the Road to the Lua...with the gentle slope of Mauna Loa in the hazylehu distance, Kaʻū Desert to the left. [Note shaking of head].
Onward to those aforementioned Terminological Variances:
Yesterdays Post was titled
Ka māuikiʻikiʻi o ke kauwela. The Summer Solstice.
Something like "Māui (the demigod) seizing or stopping (the sun) at (or of) summer". The thing he did to help his mom Hina out when her kapa wouldnʻt dry.
And after, when I gratefully received captioned photos of the Solstice sunrise from a friend taken at his ʻāina aloha, I noted with interest HIS caption:
Ke Ao Polohiwa a Kāne, VERY roughly and unpoetically translated as "the dawn light when Kāne is at the Tropic of Cancer".
Obviously my Hawaiian is very rudimentary, but I enjoy playing with the Dictionary to see what turns up. And of course thereʻs our friend Google, which this morning gave us
Hawaiian Astronomical Concepts
See especially #6 on page number 375. And because I was on Raiatea in 1985, I enjoy images conjured by the second to the last paragraph.
Onward further:
When I was small, had the 1960 tsunami in Hilo. It destroyed, among many many other buildings and lives, Motoʻs Inn. Was on the ma uka side of Kamehameha Avenue. I think a 1950ʻs modern building with a tall, cut and fitted pāhoehoe wall at the entrance, the architectural fashion of the time, and big outward-slanting plateglass windows. And Ma took us there sometimes after my physical therapy at Easter Seals on Kaʻiulani Street (I had had polio in May 1955), and I always had the Motoʻs Inn tomato soup, which, as I recall, tasted like hot V8. And then sometimes we had the burger basket at the lunch counter in the back of Kress. In the red plastic lattice basket. And sometimes the coldflaky creamhorns coated with powered sugar at Robertʻs Bakery. [Get to the point, Bob...]
So. After the tsunami, the County made the (I think) Kaikoʻo Redevelopment Agency. It was decided NOT to rebuild along Kamehameha Avenue (giving us the big parks at Bayfront), and to make kind of a plateau above the ma uka-most reach of the waves, ma uka of the Waiolama Canal. There, was built the County Building (also featuring cut and fitted pāhoehoe [but The Best is at the Pāhoa Post Office. Go look.]), and across the street, the Kaikoʻo Mall.
But "kai koʻo" is "rough, strong sea". "Tsunami" might be Kai eʻe, or Kai a Pele (!), or Kahinaliʻi, or... And of course I wasnʻt in the meetings when they decided the name, so who knows why???
And then, also in Hilo, get Ka Waena Lapaau. The Medical Center. Ummm...go look in the dictionary, especially for "waena":
Hawaiian Dictionary
All of which goes to show and demonstrate that there are many ways of interpreting phenomena, words, thoughts, etc. As long as thereʻs rationale and thinking involved, Iʻve come to appreciate differences. Different strokes for different folks, befitting rich language traditions of different families and regions. As someone told me not that long ago: Bobby, you no need be right all the time...
And my head is full and my house is shaking every 30 seconds, and I gotta go eat and go Hilo again...
Go. Read. Browse. Learn.
As always, with aloha,
BobbyC
maniniowali@gmail.com
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