Daily Delights

While I am waiting out the red-tape process of getting set up for MRI and seeing an orthopedist about my right knee, I'm admittedly limited to hobbling about, but still finding joy in everyday things, like geckos sunning themselves in the kitchen window.  On a good day I am using a cane, and on not-so-good days, I use a pair of crutches Phil found cheap at our local Pahoa Transfer Station (the FREE dump.)

We LOVE going to our dump!!  Not only is our dump free, it processes recycling of all kinds,and it also offers a delightful outdoor store for re-purposed stuff.  People who are getting rid of things, can drop them off at the little shop where you can buy some good things really cheap -- like used crutches!

The motto at the dump is "sust aina bility" which is play on the Hawaiian word "aina."  Literal translations from the Hawaiian dictionary (Pukui-Elbert) include "refuse" (like throw away), eat or consume.  However, it also seems to have a richer and more complex meaning, having to do with stewardship, responsibility -- and a relationship between the people and the land, as in AINA -  the life of the land.  (Photos from Big Island Chronicle)