Kamehameha Day

A Warm Aloha Welcome

to

Kamehameha Day,

June 10th, 2011

Click on the images today!

Today the Royal Societies

(With the help of the Honolulu Fire Dept

that was founded by King Kalakaua)

Drape the "Lonely One's" statue

with lei of love and gratitude.

What a sight!

KAMEHAMEHA the Great

"Napoleon of the Pacific"

Father of his country: Hawaii

"The public cannot be too curious 

concerning the characters of public men." 

Samuel Adams

Hawaii's Native Son.


You too loved that lei draped statue
while growing up here,

didn't you, Mr. President?

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No one knows the day of his birth,

on the Big Island (Hawaii).

He was born, a young Ali`i (chief)

among others,

in a traditional world.

As a boy,

he was present to experience

aliens landing:

Captain Cook.

He saw the need for Hawaii to unify

in order to survive

in a suddenly larger world

of opposing powers.

Using western and traditional weapons

he conquered all of our islands,

except the kingdom of Kauai

which joined through treaty.

201 years ago he established the

Hawaiian Kingdom,

recognized as a sovereign nation

throughout the world.

Of course, we are now a US State,

but the Kingdom lives in our hearts

by acclimation & defacto affection.

Yet it is real-

like the Kingdom of Heaven.

This holiday always falls close to my birthday.

Me and Kamehameha:

together in Hawaii-

it was meant to be!

More Parade

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Click on the birdies

“God finds a low branch for the bird that cannot fly.”

Turkish Proverb

"Reading is to the mind

what exercise is to the body."


Sir Richard Steele

And here is a slide show of more parade pictures:




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Floral Parade

Aloha, Friend!
Welcome to the
Kamehameha Day Floral Parade


click on the parade!

Pau Rider


"No child but must remember laying his head in the grass,
staring into the infinitesimal forest
and seeing it grow populous with fairy armies."

Robert Louis Stevenson,
Essays in The Art of Writing

Ladies of a Royal Society



"The thing I was attracted to as a little girl
was Kirk, Bones and Spock, and their utter loyalty.
There's nothing more powerful than that."

Jolene Blalock


"When you eat fruit,
think of the person who planted the tree"

VIETNAMESE SAYING

It's a family thing.

"A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away."

Bil Keane, "Family Circus"




"Millions and millions of years
would still not give me half enough time
to describe that tiny instant of all eternity
when you put your arms around me
and I put my arms around you."

Jacques Prévert




"Everybody needs a hug.
It changes your metabolism."

Leo Buscaglia




"You can't wrap love in a box,
but you can wrap a person in a hug."

Author Unknown

Honolulu Police Department Motor Officer
wearing a maile lei.

Celebrating Kamehameha the Great,
the "Napoleon of the Pacific,"
the "Lonely One."
He united the islands into one kingdom
1810.

"Children make you want to start life over."
Muhammad Ali

Old & New:
Feathered Capes and Mobile Phones

"Face in the Crowd"




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Sure is Summer, isn't it?
Well, here in the northern it is.
Minds wander, and blog traffic dips.

But the desire to take pictures,
to reach out,
and to share with jolly friends
only blossoms.

We excuse each other
for the long days of reverie
far from the internet.

Love you guys;
That's ALOHA!
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Honolulu Sunday

ALOHA, Friend

it's

SUNDAY in Honolulu

Click on the history

After a generation of American Protestant Missionaries,

the Ali`i (Royalty) of Hawaii discovered the Anglican Church

which actively supports royalty.

King Kamehameha IV and Queen Emma formally invited the church to establish a mission in the isles in 1860.

These two monarchs also established Queens Hospital -

today the premier medical facility in the Pacific.

Today, St. Andrews Cathedral is a part of the urban fabric

of our Polynesian Metropolis.

"I am I plus my surroundings,

and if I do not preserve the latter,

I do not preserve myself."

Jose` Ortega y Gasset

This painting of a homeless worshipper speaks to the modern mission

of St. Andrews, though it is right next door to the governors historic home

(Queen Liliuokalani's Washington Place) and

across Beretania (Britannia) Street from our State Capitol.

Here we see explorers Captain Cook and Captain Vancouver

with the King.

This icon was blessed on the Feast Day of the Monarchs, November 28, 1999.

(the anniversary of their confirmation in 1862 -

the King died about a year later at age 29).

Please excuse the blurry shot - but an icon is a glimpse into the other world,

something the camera can not convey

The feathered staff is called a Kahili, it is an emblem of the Ali`i.

On Wednesday's you can hear Hawaii's largest pipe organ,

a heroic Aeolian-Skinner with nearly 5000 pipes.

What an aural pummeling!

And last, but not least, I give you Surfing Jesus.

"More people are flattered into virtue

than bullied out of vice."

R.S. Surtees

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From the Beach to the Cliff

A L O H A!

Come On In. . .

click on photos to tavel through history

Kamehameha the Great (the 'lonely one') invaded Oahu in 1795

On his deathbed, King Kamehameha the Great said:

"I have given you -- the greatest good: peace. And a kingdom which -- is all one -- a kingdom of all the islands."

Hard to believe that this peaceful coast has seen invasion

by a fleet of war canoes.


“Then on the shore

Of the wide world I stand alone, and think

Till love and fame to nothingness do sink”
John Keats

Snack Break!

"...the avocado is a food without rival among the fruits,

the veritable fruit of paradise."

David Fairchild

"I'm standing for my ancestors"

"To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born

is to remain perpetually a child. For what is the worth of a human life unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?"

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Their bones LIVE!

"If you could see humanity spread out in time, as God sees it, it would look like one single growing thing--rather like a very complicated tree. Every individual would appear connected with every other."

- C. S. Lewis

"Those who do not look upon themselves as a link, connecting the past with the future, do not perform their duty to the world."

Daniel Webster

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In 1790 (20 years before his 1810 unification the Islands) Kamehameha invited Englishmen John Young and Isaac Davis to join his forces, even welcoming them to marry into his family. Both men were regarded as "Ali`i or chiefs, and are today interred at Mauna Ala, the Royal Mausoleum. (Non-natives continued to intermarry, assimilate and contribute to the multi-cultural Kingdom of Hawaii.)

Kamehameha's last great battle was fought on O'ahu in 1795 at Nu'uanu Pali. (TOP)

There his invading army defeated O'ahu's

King Kalanikupule;

ultimately driving hundreds

(perhaps even thousands) of Oahu defenders to the edge

of the famous precipice.

The Big Island and Maui invaders had the decided advantage of cannons and guns wielded by Englishmen and a specially trained cadre of Hawaiian warriors. Spears, shark tooth daggers, and other traditional stone-age weapons (some now tipped with metal) were also used in the battle, of course.

Kalanikupule's men (and few women) warriors who were not killed outright either jumped or were pushed over the edge, tumbling to their deaths on the rocky cliffs far below. The most famous remembrance of that event is the huge oil painting by artist Herb Kane shown above.

No one knows the final resting place of the

"Napolean of the Pacific."

Kamehameha's bones were entrusted to a family retainer who hid them on his Big Island of Hawaii in the old fashion.

The bones, or iwi, are held to possess great Mana, or spiritual power. They are hidden in caves so that enemies may not use the bones in rituals. A descendant of that trusted retainer guards the Royal Mausoleum to this day.

A L O H A! Cloudia