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
