We're All From Some Place

A L O H A !

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 My Waikiki home is full of beauty. . .

" It's always good to remember

where you come from

 and celebrate it.

 To remember where you come from

 is part of where you're going. "

 Anthony Burgess

" I think what I've learned

out of this lifetime

 is you should be proud

of where you come from. "

 Kid Rock

Part of me is happiest in the industrial & "less pretty"

parts of Honolulu.  I believe I know why. . . 

 

“ Home is a place

you grow up wanting to leave,

and grow old 

wanting to get back to. ”

 

       John Ed Pearce


 

Because the video below

is where I grew up:

the streets of Philadelphia.

A Philadelphia where

City Hall's William Penn statue

was taller, by statute

than anything else in town.

A place of history & industry.

Workshop to the world. 

Red brick.

Cobbled streets.

Leafy suburbs.

A time and place that will never come again.

And while too much nostalgia is unhealthy

it is also a powerful drug & tonic,

as we walk once more

in that earlier lifetime;

younger, future-dazzled,

pre - disillusionment.

We walk there now,

remembering our dreams,

yet with the God-like knowledge

of how those dreams are turning out.

Intoxicating!

(just ask Proust)

We walk too, `neath vanished skies,

with those 

with whom

we long to walk 

just once more;

Ah when we were young

and the world green!

Fear not the future,

for we've already lived

a beautiful one.

Or even more than one.

And we're still not

done;

You and I.

                          Walk on!   Fondly, cloudia