Saturday Hula

ALOHA,   FRIEND !

 Let's look in on the Prince Lot Hula Festival

" Hula is the art of Hawaiian dance,

which expresses all we see,

smell, taste, touch, feel,

and experience.

It is joy, sorrow, courage, and fear. "

Robert Cazimero

"Have you ever heard 

the earth breathe? "

Kate Chopin

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  Moanalua Gardens 

is a place long associated with Hawaiian history.

This great Monkey Pod tree 

is known to be over 100 years old. 

During the 1850s, King Kamehameha V

had a Summer cottage in the valley.

 Here, away from the prying eyes

of Honolulu Town, the court could enjoy

hula, chant, the Hawaiian language,

and the other traditions that outsiders

were trying to eradicate.

Lovely Hula Maidens

  "He lei poina ‘ole ke keiki "

' A lei never forgotten

is the beloved child  '

This Hula Mound

is an important place to devotees of the tradition.

" I cannot help feeling that the chief end of this meeting is plantation profits,

and the prosperity of the country,

the demands of society,

the future of the Hawaiian race

only comes secondarily if at all. "

Sanford B. Dole

1800s

" A'a i ka hula, waiho i ka maka'u i ka hale "

 Hawaiian Saying

' Dare to dance, 

leave shame at home.'

'KALO' is better known as 'TARO'

the staple food of Hawaiians

"Tell me what you eat,

and I shall tell you what you are."

 
Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

(1755-1826)

The stone Poi Pounder, the Kalo Board, 

and the Bowl: THIS is Hawaii !

Note the plastic glove

" There is no love sincerer

than the love of food."

 

George Bernard Shaw

Bringing Home the Kalo

Wrapped in a Traditional Ti Leaf Package. 

" We may find in the long run

that tinned food is a deadlier weapon

than the machine-gun. "

 

George Orwell

Below is a snippet of Hula and Chant

for you to experience.  Mahalo for Visiting! cloudia

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A L O H A !

Beach Morning Mellow

" It was morning;

through the high window
I saw the pure, 

bright blue of the sky 

as it hovered cheerfully. . . 

It too seemed full of joy, 

as if it had special plans, 

and had put on its finest clothes

for the occasion.  "

Herman Hesse

YELLOW!

" The world is glittering with gold,

and yellow streamers of sunlight

wind through the tree boughs

like GOD was throwing

a party. "

Christine Anderson

'Green Dream'

" A scoop of pure honey

set in a green bowl."

Godfrey Smith

My Blue Heaven

“If the sight of the blue skies

fills you with joy,

if a blade of grass springing up in the fields

has power to move you,

if the simple things in nature have a message you understand,

Rejoice, 

for your soul is alive.” 

 

 

Eleanora Duse 

 

 

And now. . . 

     . . . Let's DANCE! cloudia

All You Need

A L O H A !

" There'll be bluebirds over

the white cliffs of Dover,
Tomorrow,

just you wait and see. "

Nat Burton

" Birds sing after a storm;

why shouldn't people feel as free 

to delight 

in whatever sunlight 

remains to them? "

 

Rose Kennedy

 This little one was photographing the adults.

I went for my camera but missed that shot.

Here they admire her capture.

" What's done to children, 

they will do to society.  "

 

Karl Menninger

 

 

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" You have a lifetime to work,

but children

are only young once.  "

 

 

Polish Proverb





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The Hawaiians of old

communicated with nature.

 

Nature taught them

all they needed to know.

 

The skies, in particular,

were eloquent.

 

Even today,

Hawaiian skies speak,

even to the most

Earthbound among us.

 

 

The other morning,

the sky was singing!

 

 

 

SO much was going on up there.

 

 

 

 

Like the sweep of a grand mural,

like libraries of great books;

 

My camera could never capture it all.

 

 

But a message formed

In my inner self,

 words without a voice,

silent

but eloquent:

" Everything you need to be happy

you have.

 

I

 

have provided it to

you. "

 

Wow!

 

Of course, I can't talk about it

or folks will think I'm crazy.

 

But you and me?

 

We're past all that!

 

So if you worry like I do

about this uncertain life,

just remember:

whatever you possess

or lack,

What You Need to Be Happy,

You already have it!

      Warmly, cloudia

 

Aloha

" Being the recipient of a smile

can be deeply rewarding. "

Tom Corwin

America?!

A L O H A !

" Until the great mass of the people 

shall be filled with the sense of responsibility

for each others' welfare, 

social justice can never be attained.  "

Helen Keller

"The government,

which was designed for the people,
 has got into the hands of the bosses

and their employers, the special interests.

 An invisible empire has been set up
 above the forms of democracy." 

Woodrow Wilson

" Nothing is so infectious

as example."

 Francois De La Rochfoucauld





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The people in the bubble

at the pinnacle

believe that they are levitating

disconnected from Earth

and from the rest of

us.

The country we all built

together

shudders

as they chop away

at branch,

trunk and root.

Have You, fellow American,

called your "representatives'

to HOWL?!

Wheel? Well!

A L O H A !

" America 

I'm putting my queer shoulder

to the wheel.  "

Allen Ginsberg

“Just as tall trees are known by their shadows,

so are good men known by their enemies”

 

 Chinese Proverb

" The Republicans are the party

that says government doesn't work 

and then they get elected and prove it.  "

P. J. O'Rourke