Friday, December 17, 2010

On The Way

It's ALOHA Friday
in Hawaii!







"Great events make me quiet and calm,
it is only trifles
that irritate my nerves."

Queen Victoria










See the little Prince leaving his royal parents and going into the Hawaiian

Lobby mural in the Leiopapa a Kamehameha Building (State Office Tower). 
235 South Beretania Street, Honolulu,
  named after little Prince
 Albert Edward Kauikeaouli Leiopapa a Kamehameha;
 Born to King Kamehameha IV and Queen Emma
 on May 20, 1858,
 he was only four-years old when he passed away
 due to meningitis on August 27, 1862.
 The spirit of the young prince, affectionately known to the people as
 Ka Haku O Hawai'i "The Lord Of Hawai'i,"
is said to inhabit the building named in his honor to this day:
Leiopapa a Kamehameha translates to"
 "The Flower Of His Father Kamehameha."
Much hope rested on this little boy whose godmother was
Queen Victoria.
















Hawaii still loves protocol and pageant.
This is the Brothers Cazimero's Christmas Show
at the historic Hawaii Theatre




"You can become a winner
only if you are willing
to walk over the edge."

Damon Runyon
(for Robert Cazimero)







Iolani Palace by Night.
Electrified by Edison himself, years before the US White House.
Honolulu's citizenry gathered right here
at eve to watch the lights come on all at once,
a bit of magic we take for granted today.



 "Our children
 (and elderly parents! cloudia)
 give us the opportunity
 to become the parents we always wished
 we had."

Louise Hart







By Day



"Morality may consist solely
 in the courage to make a choice."

Leon Blum






In Gingerbread!



"And I had but one penny in the world. 
Thou should’st have it to buy gingerbread.


 William Shakespeare,
 Love’s Labours Lost




"The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound,
 without any power to compare and rank his sensations,
 abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog,
 individualizing everything, generalizing nothing,
 delighted with every new thing,
 lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred.


 But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic.
 She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame,
 by all these attitudes and exertions /an end of the first importance,
 which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own." 


 Ralph Waldo Emerson






Meanwhile. . .



May you delight in everything that comes today.
May the child in you stir
and awake
for a season of Wonder
and radical Hope.

That is my wish for 

YOU.


        What is YOURS?  cloudia

12 comments:

  1. Wow, I love the sunrise photo. Stunning! I hope all is well in Hawaii!

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  2. Nice pics, Cloudia! It was very coooolld here in Foster Village. I have almost all of the windows closed. Rain is expected this weekend. Hope your boat is holding up. Cheers!

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  3. This All means SO much more to me now that I have the definitive Hawaiian History Book! It is so neat to have just read about the Palace, dates, Afterlife......

    Oh what a gift you are to us!

    Aloha from SC,

    John

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  4. I always wish for health and happiness for all those I love and have met.A simple smile can make anyones day. Another might be I wish I was in Hawaii.

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  5. I wish for good health and happiness for all. Gingerbread yummmmmy!!.

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  6. 'Meanwhile...'

    I like that photo very much.

    Merry Christmas

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  7. I wish you the same. Thanks for all the info and lovely quotes.

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  8. Beautiful sunrise and great history lesson! Wishing you sunny skies! Happy Holidays, gal pal!

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  9. Fabulous photos! I wish you joy, wonder and a dry boat over the Christmas period...

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  10. I hope nobody eats that gingerbread building. It is a sin to even touch the baker's great piece of art.

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