Morning in Chinatown

Aloha;

Let's stroll through Honolulu's Chinatown -

the oldest Chinatown in what is now the USA-

Hawaiian Skies Above-



"The air up there in the clouds is very pure and fine,

bracing and delicious.

And why shouldn't it be? -

it is the same the angels breathe."


Mark Twain

Urban street scenes below-


"With true friends . . .

even water drunk together is sweet enough."


- Chinese proverb

See those Manapua in the basket?

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Campaign season must pass through Chinatown!


"To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable,

but to be certain is to be ridiculous."


- Chinese proverb

"Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it."

- Chinese proverb

A Shinto priest prepares for the service.



"Think not that dreams appear to the dreamer only at night:

the dream of this world of pain appears to us even by day."

JAPANESE POEM.

The Temple stands ready.


"Wafted into my room, the scent of the flowers of the plum-tree

Changes my broken window into a source of delight."

Japanese Poem

Lion Dancers are ready.

"A man's fortune must first be changed from within."
- Chinese proverb