When despair grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting for their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
— Wendell Berry, The Peace of Wild Things
Our first full day on Kauai was one of our favorite parts of the entire trip and the one Ryan was most looking forward to: a boat tour of the Nā Pali coast. I’m slightly scared of boats and majorly scared of the open ocean, so the prospect of being on a raft flying across deep, deep water didn’t excite me, per se. However, I faced my fears, and this turned out to be one of my favorite things we did while in Hawaii.
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