Let's Sneak Away

Aloha, Friend!

Welcome to Tuesday in Waikiki


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A Rainbow A Day, Keeps Depression Away

"Every great advance in natural knowledge
has involved the absolute rejection of authority".
Thomas H. Huxley

Pomp and Circumstance Eugene Savage, 1938

"Never lose sight of this important truth,
that no one can be truly great until he has gained a knowledge of himself,
a knowledge which can only be acquired by occasional retirement."
Johann Georg von Zimmermann

Island Feast Eugene Savage, 1938


"There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great, how famous or successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause."
George Matthew Adams

Many of us believe that 'doing the right thing' is about knowing and obeying 'the rules' so that God, or the Bogey-man, can't play 'gotcha' with us - even if we transgress a rule in good faith, ignorance, or compassion.

Others consider 'intention' to be the golden rule - though deluded people always arrange to believe that they have only the best intentions (for they know best).

What I know is this:
If you do good to yourself and others in gentleness,
you will end up a very different person than one who followed every rule perfectly, yet reduced compassion to a slogan.


Remember to take time for yourself in this season of hurry!



A L O H A, Cloudia

Tiki Cave

ALOHA, Sunday Friend!

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Sand Island Access Road is an industrial area of our Honolulu
known for shipping, industry, and marinas.

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"Creation, we are taught is not an act that happened once upon a time,
once and for ever. The act of bringing the world into existence is a continuous process.”
Abraham Joshua Heschel

It's also home to La Mariana, a private marina.

LM is known for it's piano bar and restaurant.
It is like making a trip back to the tiki bars of the 50's.

Wonderful specimens are everywhere in abundance...

This fellow is eating a delicious pig.



While we ate, my friend told me about a time
when he was wandering about on the Big Island, Hawaii.





He came upon a cave full of very old Tikis.





What were they doing there,
these family heirlooms passed down
over generations?






The missionaries
told the people to
burn
these "infernal, pagan images."






Imagine
the extra-terrestrials landing among us.





Their technology is clearly far ahead of ours.
They tell us that our beliefs are primitive;





Then they tell us to burn
our churches, synagogues, mosques & temples.







Unable to part with the spiritual treasures
that our parents and grandparents valued,
we might bury the Torahs, Bibles, statues, & symbols.







And that's what happened
to the Hawaiian people.

Sleep well, gods!







ALOHA Friend, cloudia

ALOHA Saturday

It's ALOHA Saturday
in Waikiki
and YOU are most welcome!

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"Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul."
Henry van Dyke

"If we are to achieve results never before accomplished,
we must expect to employ methods never before attempted."
Sir Francis Bacon

"The pedigree of honey
Does not concern the bee;

A clover, any time, to him
Is aristocracy."
Emily Dickinson

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Kindness

Before you know what kindness really is
you must lose things,
feel the future dissolve in a moment
like salt in a weakened broth.
What you held in your hand,
what you counted and carefully saved,
all this must go so you know
how desolate the landscape can be
between the regions of kindness.
How you ride and ride
thinking the bus will never stop,
the passengers eating maize and chicken
will stare out the window forever.

Before you learn the tender gravity of kindness,
you must travel where the Indian in a white poncho
lies dead by the side of the road.
You must see how this could be you,
how he too was someone
who journeyed through the night with plans
and the simple breath that kept him alive.

Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside,
you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.
You must wake up with sorrow.
You must speak to it till your voice
catches the thread of all sorrows
and you see the size of the cloth.

Then it is only kindness that makes sense anymore,
only kindness that ties your shoes
and sends you out into the day to mail letters and
purchase bread,
only kindness that raises its head
from the crowd of the world to say
it is I you have been looking for,
and then goes with you every where
like a shadow or a friend.




Naomi Shihab Nye



ALOHA, cloudia

The Shopping Season

ALOHA, Friend
&
Welcome Back to WAIKIKI

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Royal Hawaiian Vista

"A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning,
as if supported by the rays of the sun,
a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee,
joy accompanied me as I walked."
Anais Nin




Walking Man's Hula Lesson

"For me, the vast marvel is to be alive.
For man, or for flowers or beast or bird,
the supreme triumph is to be most vividly and perfectly alive."
Al Purdy

“Education is a kind of continuing dialogue,
and a dialogue assumes different points of view.”

Robert M. Hutchins



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Ah, "Black Friday!"
Consumerism run riot.
Some commence a season of
hurry;
others of us
simply enjoy this annual
respite from the ordinary.

Whatever your day holds,
take a moment
to pause
and look at where you've come.

Congratulations!


ALOHA, cloudia

Happy Thanksgiving

ALOHA

&

Happy Thanksgiving to

Y O U

from

WAIKIKI

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A time for family. . .

"There would be no society

if living together depended upon understanding each other."

Eric Hoffer

"Most men know what they hate,

few know what they love."

Charles Caleb Colton

Getting ready for the holidays at the Sheraton Waikiki

"In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding

equals ten dollars' worth of medical science."

Martin H. Fischer

Wishing you a contented holiday!

A L O H A, cloudia

A Stroll

ALOHA, Friend

Welcome to Wednesday in Honolulu

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Welcome to Wednesday in Honolulu

Let's take a stroll through local history. . .
just off busy King St.

"It is such a secret place, the land of tears.”

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever.”


Amy Tan





“To leave a place is to die a little”

French Proverb

“Write injuries in sand, kindnesses in marble”

French Proverb



"With Jesus in Heaven"

"Killed by Automobile"

"Ask yourself: Have you been kind today?
Make kindness your daily modus operandi
and change your world."
Annie Lennox


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It can be very peaceful visiting with the people
who built our Hawaii of today.


They still have lasting lessons to teach us.



Hawaiians, Portuguese, Diplomats, Americans, Tahitians,
Royalty and Religious. . .



All together here as in life.




Thank you for all you did!
There is no place like Honolulu, my home.



ALOHA, cloudia

Flying Fish

ALOHA Friend

Welcome to Tuesday in Waikiki




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"The Internet is just a world passing around notes in a classroom."
Jon Stewart

view from da bar


"A stout heart breaks bad luck."
Cervantes

you can see my reflection!





"The ocean refuses no river."
Sheila Chandra



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Hope you enjoyed your weekend!

Last evening at dusk
I was in my kayak
contemplating
the enormity
of the moment
when
suddenly
a school of silver fish
took to the air
and flew before me in an arc!

Wish you could have been there,
but I thought of
you.



ALOHA, cloudia