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" Our main business

 is not to see 

what lies dimly

 at a distance,

 but to do 

what lies clearly

 at hand.  "

Thomas Carlyle

" One sees qualities

 at a distance 

and defects

 at close range.  "

Victor Hugo

 " Great heroes

 need great sorrows

 and burdens,
 or half their

 greatness 

goes unnoticed. "

Peter S. Beagle 

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This is gonna be

G O O D !

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Rambling

A   L   O   H   A  !

"The best thing 

about the future

 is that it comes

 one day

 at a time. "

Abraham Lincoln 

" I care not much 

for a man's religion 

whose dog and cat 

are not 

the better

 for it. "

Abraham Lincoln

How Christmas Trees 

come to Hawaii

" Whatsoever

 hath fins and scales -
Because these, 

of all the fish tribe, 

are the most

 nourishing; "

Clarke's Commentary on the Bible

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Some call it

wandering,

rambling,

or a waste of 

time-

I call it

absolutely

necessary.

Unstructured time

and yes,

space.

The Soul

needs breathing

Space. 

Thanks for YOUr

Companionship

along the way.

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tourist kitsch

A L O H A !

Authentic culture

gets turned into
 trinkets,

Persons

into cliche. 

" not even Solomon 
in all his magnificence 
could array himself 
like one of these."

Weymouth New Testament
  Matthew 6:29




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Banyan Ban-Ban

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 Banyans

 of our youth,

rich at morning,

sorry we swung

from your

irresistible

 "branches."

 Rapunzel Spun

Golden

you Mesmer

my eyes

 Adventitious

 Aerial roots 

  above the ground

reaching, 

gravity - growing

Humble finger buds

long to reach

into soil.

  Branches

 bud shoots

which soar

to the ground, 

 taking root 

becoming trunks;

a forest

of sister trees

interlaced.

Mysterious.

"Enter"

That beckoning space 

long lingers
 in one's thoughts;
even later 

at the show-

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Aviate

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“ The phoenix hope,

 can wing her way 

through the desert skies,

 and still defying 

fortune's spite; 

revive

 from ashes -

and rise. ”
 Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“If you were born without wings,
 do nothing
 to prevent them from
 growing.”
  Coco Chanel

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Google Type FUN

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 Eminently Click-able Photos -

Courtesy Carroll Cox EnviroWatch

 “ There is nothing in a caterpillar

 that tells you

 it's going to be a butterfly. ”

 Richard Buckminster Fuller

“ The butterfly counts

 not months but moments,

 and has time enough.”

 Rabindranath Tagore 

“The fluttering of a butterfly's wings 

can effect climate changes 

on the other side of the planet”

 Paul Erlich quotes

 “ Where

 does a wise man 

hide a leaf? 

In the forest. ”

 G. K. Chesterton

“ With time and patience

 the mulberry leaf

 becomes a silk gown. ”

 Chinese Proverb

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Curb Side

A   L   O   H   A  !

" I've always belonged to the street, 

and I always will.

 It's in my DNA. "

 Javier Bardem 

 

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Volcano Grandmother Pele

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 Pele, volcano goddess

created these islands

with her magical hula

of fire!

Sometimes,

folks see her as 

a young Hawaiian girl,

sometimes

as a seasoned older 

woman in red. . .

 "According to Hawaiian Legend,

 Pele, the fiery goddess 

of the volcanoes in Hawaii, 

would send her white dog

 as a messenger to alert the people 

when an eruption was imminent. 

A white dog was first noticed 

by the observatory staff 

during the latter part of 1959

 about 1/2 km below the observatory."

Earth System Research Laboratory

Global Monitoring Division of NOAA

 You have seen her white dog,

now witness the Fire:

Hawaii News Now - KGMB and KHNL

Watching Rocks Float

A L O H A !

" A little noiseless noise

 among the leaves,
 Born of the very sign

 that silence heaves. "
 

John Keats

" The sun that shines across the sea,

 the wind that whispers in the tree,

 the lark that carols in the sky,

 the fleecy clouds a-sailing by.

O, I'm as rich as rich can be
 

for all these things belong to me. "

Dimitri Bortniansky

“ I believe a leaf of grass 

is no less 

than the journey-work

 of the stars. ”

 Walt Whitman 

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Balsamaceous:

 Possessing healing or restorative qualities.

A   L   O   H   A  !

" I just spotted some ducks

 practicing their 

teenage girl faces. "

 Anon

A morning walk is so restorative

Hardworking people,

 like this lady driving a limo,

have no time to dally

I used to miss a lot of these

small moments too.

Some of us are 

very blase` about 

EVERYTHING-

Y  A  W  N


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Am I a Pundit Now? LOL

A L O H A ! Carroll Cox 

was nice enough to invite me back

 on his radio show today!  

You can listen 

to my commentary

(above)

 if you care to.

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Railroad Memories

A   L   O   H   A  !

Riding a passenger train,

past a siding

where boxcars,

tankers,

coal carriers,

 flats,

and maybe even

a caboose,

waited,

was fascinating

to me as a child.

That is the Logo

of the

 Chessie System

[ That's a Link!]

Trains were dirty, and loud,

 and rattling.

But you could ride 

and sleep

with comfort on

 the C&O

Chessie was based on this painting.

I haven't been on a train

for a long time;

a long distance one,

with a compartment

for many years longer.

I remember the moments,

decades ago

early in the morning

[ traveling from Durango

to Philadelphia

via Chicago ]

rounding the  

Great Horseshoe Curve

[ another link! ]

watching it from my

rocking bunk.

I can still see pink

waves of

the Atlantic

lapping near the 

rails

of the line from

New York to

Boston-

again,

early in the 

morning.

[The "Night Owl"

left after midnight.] 

Some things

just stay 

with you-

LOOK! 

Chessie!

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