I have to admit that some of my personal posts over the last couple of weeks have been somewhat sad and melancholy for me to write. I hope they may have helped someone as they were very therapeutic for me. So this entry will just be about something I love and feel so much joy in.
One of my favorite things about where I live in Kona, is that it is close to the ocean. Every time I drive somewhere, I get to follow the road right along the coast and look out to sea. The first thing I look for is dolphins in the bay. They are there almost all the time in the morning. They come in to rest and casually swim back and forth, jumping, playing and interacting. I love it when I can watch them before the tour boats get out there. When they arrive, it becomes a spectacle of white flesh floating on styrofoam noodles. Not what I'm interested in absorbing.
But before that, it is sheer bliss. My favorite experience was when a friend and I went to do a long ocean swim at the pier. The dolphins were only about 100 yards off it. Plans for the swim changed and we dove off the pier to join them. There weren't many people in the water so it was serene. When I visit the dolphins, I mainly just float. No chasing them, because I will never catch them. No wild thrashing, because it scares them. I just float. Invariably, they come to me. Not to touch by any means, that's wrong to do, but just swim. Baby's and mothers, pods of one to many...the water is shallow and they swim up close. I watched a baby shoot up from the bottom and jump about five feet away. I thought he was going to land on me. I love to look into their eyes and wonder if we could ever communicate. It is what you think it is. It's magical.
I have always loved dolphins. Every silly test that matches me with an animal says my kindred spirit is the dolphin. Then again, maybe those tests aren't so far off. To me, they symbolize intelligence, love, freedom and joy. They ride bow waves off the boats for what seems to be, fun. During the tsunami here, two females held a young baby in the dolphin pools at the Hilton as they rode out the waves. They hunt with a designed plan. They exhibit depression and have been known to attempt suicide in hopelessness. Sounds so like humans. I get very upset when I think about the ways they are mistreated. I admire them tremendouly and learn from watching them.
The dolphins provide an almost daily respite from stress and sadness for me. No matter what my day goes like and how positive life is, in this situation there is always some sadness. They inspire me, move me, and help my spirit soar into peace. I need them as much as anything nowadays...they symbolize hope. I hope that all of you have something like that. That is, something beautiful in nature that you are drawn to, to feed your soul and brighten your day. The gifts and beauty our earth has to offer are humbling and healing. Enjoy it and respect it, because that's what it was created for. In my life, it is always, dolphins in the bay.
"The happiness of the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it."
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