Wonderful New Day

Aloha

Welcome to a New Day for Hawaii!

"I absolutely believe in revenge.

A dish best served cold?

I say: get it any way you can."

Fran Lebowitz

 

"Smiles

are the soul's

party dresses."

Cloudia

 

"Cause I'm leaving on a jet plane. . . "

John Denver

"Be to her virtues very kind,
Be to her faults a little blind."

Matthew Prior

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Today, the team I have supported

is being sworn in as Governor

and lieutenant Governor

of the State of Hawaii.

 

 

A ticket to the proceedings

sits right here beside my keyboard.

 

There is a concept in the Hawaiian Culture:

PONO.

According to the authoritative 

Pukui/Elbert Hawaiian Dictionary,

Pono means:  goodness, uprightness, morality, moral qualities, correct or proper procedure, excellence, well-being, prosperity, welfare, benefit, behalf, equity, proper, righteous, right, upright, just, virtuous, fair, beneficial, successful...and so much more.

Things in our islands

have been in disharmony

for eight years.

With all the problems we face today

a new, inclusive, regime is needed.

By all appearances,

that new regime is now come.

Humans will never be perfect

and I don't expect to agree

with every move "my" guys make.

But that longed-for inclusiveness is afoot,

as seen in the recent proposed appointments

of good people.

I have a confession to make.

A very rude and inflexible person

has been in charge of the State Department

that over-sees the State Harbors.

As residents of a State Harbor,

my neighbors and I have been under assault

by an antagonistic, pre-determined process

that has made us unwelcome

in our own beloved neighborhood.

The other day,

I saw that rude woman,

who had hurt so many peoples' feelings

(and made some boaters homeless)

crying before the TV News cameras.

Bullies always cry 

when they finally get the punch in the nose

that they have courted.

I felt a satisfaction,

an ancient one.

It's good to see those

who have made themselves 

you enemies

CRY.

Even better:

We welcome Pono Hawaiian Gentleman,

William Aila

Waianae Boat Harbor Master,

Hawaiian Activist,

& gadfly for what is right,

as our NEW 

DIRECTOR, Dept. Of Land & Natural Resources.

He is expected to be confirmed easily.

The war is over.

Now there's LOTS to be done.

But we the people of Hawaii

will do it together.

It's a wonderful day.

             What is pleasing YOU today? cloudia

BONUS:

Stroll around Honolulu @ Christmas Time!