Natalie Wood

 ALOHA !

" At night, 

when the sky is full of stars

 and the sea is still 

you get the wonderful sensation

 that you are floating in space. " 

Natalie Wood

"When you are sorrowful

 look again in your heart, 

and you shall  see

that in truth

you are weeping for that

which has been your

delight. "

 Kahlil Gibran

This is the boat from which Natalie departed this life,
docked here in Honolulu

"I like being on the water

 or near the water,

 but not in the water."

Natalie Wood

  =^.^=

Perhaps

 it is because she grew up before our eyes

in the movies

that Natalie Wood seemed more than

a "movie star."

There was something

 very individual,

honest,

vulnerable,

and familiar

 about her.

She was beautiful too,

but in an unassuming,

un-brassy way.

Like an ancient hero

she was taken too soon,

 taken into 

the realm of 

the immortals.

The boat from upon which

 she sailed

from land for the last time

has been re-sold,

and docked here in Honolulu

for many years.

Now that the case surrounding her death

is being re-examined

officials are coming over from California

to scrutinize the vessel.

Meteorology

was my college lab science.

The professor told us

that he would give us extra credit

for every weather-related news story

we clipped/printed

and brought to class.

"How many weather stories can there BE?"

I wondered.

But that turned out to be

just what he was teaching us:

the importance of weather,

( once you notice it )

all over the world

week after week.

I had no problem

finding such a story

every week,

all semester.

Have YOU found

that visiting Hawaii

 via this blog

has been a little 

like that?

Here on the most remote islands

on Earth,

my life MUST be quite different

from yours

-and yet-

there always seems to be

something

that I find

 to present to 

Y O U.

In this case,

my connection to Natalie

goes beyond sharing a harbor 

for many years

with the 'death boat.'

When the film

"Inside Daisy Clover" came out

I was the same age

 as the character she played:

a tom-boy who mostly raised herself.

If you watch,

really watch,

the performance at the beginning

 of the video below,

you will see an extraordinary

"something"

that spoke deeply to me

as an adolescent;

A yearning,

a determination,

a 'self-pumping up'

an unconventionality

that I really identified with.

You're Gonna Hear From ME ! 

Thanks for letting us hear from

Y O U 

in comments

                                            warmly, cloudia

Inside Daisy Clover HERE