'Tis the season.. to get Lost
It's coffee season here in Kona. We just finished our second picking round at both farms. That means crazy long hours and exhausting processing days. But I am very happy to report that the beans are huuuuge this year. Big and tasty. Not a whole lot of them though. As I blogged earlier in the year, last year's bumpercrop meant the trees would yield fewer beans this year. That's the way it works.
I haven't had a break in about two months, so I took of the weekend to fly over to Waikiki. Hmmm, check my head, I went to Waikiki to relax???
I happened to hit the very weekend when they were premiering the tv show "Lost" on Waikiki beach. I don't own a tv, but I do manage to watch this show on a regular basis, partly for its Hawaii locations and partly for its closet existentialism. It was quite entertaining to be among thousands of fans, many shrieking in appreciation of the cast as they signed autographs. Hey, the real star of the show is the island!
My main purpose in Oahu was to see Krishna Das sing. "See" is the wrong verb, because at a kirtan performance, everybody sings. For three hours, we sang and sang and sang our way into a joyful state. Yoga led me to kirtan, via an instructor who loved to chant at the end of her practice. It's like going to church, except without the preacher. Skip straight over the "sins of the flesh" and right to the good part, the joy of singing. Krishna Das is one of my favorites.
I'm back to the coffee now. Came home to 1500 pounds of cherry that had to be pulped. My next break won't be till the end of the harvest season....Christmas. Back to work!
I haven't had a break in about two months, so I took of the weekend to fly over to Waikiki. Hmmm, check my head, I went to Waikiki to relax???
I happened to hit the very weekend when they were premiering the tv show "Lost" on Waikiki beach. I don't own a tv, but I do manage to watch this show on a regular basis, partly for its Hawaii locations and partly for its closet existentialism. It was quite entertaining to be among thousands of fans, many shrieking in appreciation of the cast as they signed autographs. Hey, the real star of the show is the island!
My main purpose in Oahu was to see Krishna Das sing. "See" is the wrong verb, because at a kirtan performance, everybody sings. For three hours, we sang and sang and sang our way into a joyful state. Yoga led me to kirtan, via an instructor who loved to chant at the end of her practice. It's like going to church, except without the preacher. Skip straight over the "sins of the flesh" and right to the good part, the joy of singing. Krishna Das is one of my favorites.
I'm back to the coffee now. Came home to 1500 pounds of cherry that had to be pulped. My next break won't be till the end of the harvest season....Christmas. Back to work!
2 Comments:
Wow sounds like a lot of work? Still it sounds like a fun dream job for a wanna be coffee hippy like me. Do you have help or is it all you?
Hmmm....mostly me on the work for my 5 acres. My parents do have someone come in on Saturdays to help with the heavy lifting (throwing fertilizer and such) on their 10 acres. I get all the leftover chores on their property during the rest of the week. But no worries... it is a dream job in a lot of ways.
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