The wind is blowing hard this morning; the birds have finished their sunrise concert and are now calling out to each other from time to time. I grab my coffee and step outside; the wind is bringing in clouds, and it will start raining soon. There’s a single plumeria flower on the ground. The tree has start blooming.
We’ll get tired of sweeping up the fallen flowers all summer, but the tree is still bare. Plumeria is a strange tree — first the flowers appear on the bare branches, then the leaves start to grow. A few days ago, we cut off a bunch of branches to shape the tree a bit. Most importantly, it won’t cover my vegetable garden and cast a shadow.
I go inside to refill my coffee cup; I don’t feel like turning on the TV. Even the Hawaii news is terrible these days. In Kona, ICE rounded up children at a school. When their father came to pick them up, they rounded up both and deported them. The Hawaii police aren’t helping ICE.
