Hill Of The Rolling Sweet Potato

A  L  O  H  A !

View: Honolulu & Diamond Head

from Pu’u ‘Ualaka’a

Location Link - Story/history Link

It is so small a thing 

to have enjoyed the sun, 

to have lived light in the spring, 

to have loved, to have thought, 

to have done.

Matthew Arnold

Dare to Believe 

in Your Happiness

Never be in a hurry; 

do everything quietly 

and in a calm spirit. 

Do not lose your inner peace 

for anything whatsoever, 

even if your whole world 

seems upset. 

Saint Francis de Sales

Meanwhile. . . down below

in the city of Honolulu. . . 

♾

Love You,

                                 cloudia

Relationship With A Peak

A  L  O  H  A !

I love the mountains behind Honolulu

Only if you have been in the 

deepest valley, can you ever 

know how magnificent it is to 

be on the highest mountain. 

                 Richard M. Nixon

Exciting to find new view planes

Wheresoever thou findest 

a high mountain or a 

lofty hill and a green tree, 

know that an idol is there! 

        Akiva ben Joseph

The peak attracts clouds,

the cloud caresses 

and nourishes the mountain.

It's a beautiful relationship!

꧁꧂

Best Warm Wishes!

            cloudia

Old Friends Book Ends

A  L  O  H  A !

Walking on Saturday evening 
to meet friends, I crossed 
the Kalakaua Avenue bridge.

Around me, our pocket sized 
city of Honolulu

with all the hustle and excitement

anyone could wish for - but no more.

All confined, EMBRACED! between

the rolling Pacific surf and these

glorious, forested, tropical mountains.

I in cool shadow, beheld Awaawaloa

gleaming above in the last full rays of the sun.

I came to Honolulu as an

immigrant from the continent. 
Knowing nothing but 
full of attitude! 
Working the bars, 
as a cleaning lady, as a taxi driver,

taught me this town 'mango tree mailbox'

as the old taxi driving 'uncles' used to say.

Now it is me: I know what used to be there,

 and the name before that. Through hard work, and love, and refusing to leave, 

I made this my town. Now

I am a holder of memory and culture here.

A Kupuna, a 'senior'.

I love this man's native Hawaiian features!

Being an older person here

is very different that what I

saw in my California sojourn.

Here we mix all ages, we never stop

singing, performing, telling dirty jokes,

dancing hula, and holding raffles for

some charity. Saturday night we sent off

an old friend of decades, Gladys, to live

in California with family. 

It's too common a story here. 
Folks built their whole life

and memories in the islands, 
contributed MUCH as Gladys has 
done more than most, yet 
cannot afford to remain as seniors.

I am a VERY lucky duck

that managed to return!

We honor them,

 and we do not spare

the emotion!

Gladys spoke what was on her mind,

surrounded by those she has loved.

 and been loved by for decades

Remember that the most 

valuable antiques are 

dear old friends.      

       H. Jackson Brown

Linking To

Good Random Fun

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Glad YOU

are my friend!

            Warmly, cloudia

Aloha `Oe

G did great in his first

concert on Saturday too!

Hawaii Photo of the Day

 A  L  O  H  A !

A Windward Walk

A  L  O  H  A   from   Oahu!

Click to see hiding mountains

 Over the mountains

from where I live

 (Kona side)

is

The Windward Side

(Ko`olau Side)

of Oahu.

It's a good place 

for mornings,

sun rising

out of the sea.

Look!   BUNNY!

Here, 

Sea is Close,

Other Land is far

(Alaska)

Fresh Trade winds

carry the scent of

mountain snow 

and open

ocean waves.

The Mountains-

 Always Close. 

They Have Your Back

in this 

sweet rural district.

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Thank You

for Joining us!

               Warmly, cloudia

US Post Office Kaneohe, HI 96744

We Who Think and Feel Together

A  L  O  H  A !

Invest an Enlarging Click on Mountains *

“ The world is so empty

 if one thinks only of 

mountains, rivers & 

cities; 

but to know someone 

who thinks & feels 

with us, & 

who, though distant, 

is close to us 

in spirit, 

this makes the earth 

for us 

an 

inhabited garden.” 

                       Goethe

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Thank You

for Visiting!

            Warmly, cloudia

*  Awaawaloa [ahvah-ahvah-low-ah] is the 2,486 foot peak on the Ko'olau Summit Ridge that overlooks Mānoa Valley Link shows the back view from the Windward side of Oahu

Oahu Mountains

A  L  O  H  A !

 Keahiakahoe (above)
[ kay - ah-hee - ahka - hoy ]

 is a 2,820 foot peak 

of Oahu's Ko`olau Mountains.

 Here, she presides over
 Kaneohe Town

on our windward side. 

Kaneohe Bay from Keahiakahoe

 

" One sees great things

 [mountains]

from the valley;

 only small things 

from the peak. "

Gilbert K. Chesterton

 

courtesy: theaircraft.net

A US Army air Corps B-17E

 arrived in Hawaii on 18 Dec 41,

 11 days after the attack on Pearl Harbor.  

It crashed into the cliffs of Mt. Keahiakahoe 

less than 4 months later on

 Easter Sunday, 5 April 1942.

 Sweet as Honolulu Town is,
in Summer some turn
their eyes to the mountains
above town, our
  ' Mauka'  side


[ Ocean, Kai
is the yin
to Mauka's yang:
' Makai. ' ]


Above is Punchbowl Crater,
home to a National Cemetery
where our military heroes are buried,
including President Obama's
grandfather (who gave young Barack a home)
Stanley Dunham,
a WWII Vet
( Like my Dad )

The mountains are close,

and rural Oahu 

is just beyond them.

( until we stupidly 

pave it over, that is! 

See it NOW )

" I long

 for rural and domestic 

scene,

 for the warbling of birds

 and the prattling

 of my children.  "

John Adams

“ Keep close to Nature's heart...

and break clear away,
once in awhile,

  climb a mountain . . .
Wash your spirit 

clean. ”

 John Muir 

"- like an abandoned theater.

The play is finished,

but the echoes

remain. "

 Arbit Blatas

 Spooky.  Who, or what,

is in that window?

 " It is dismal coming home,

 when there is

 nobody 

to welcome one! "

  
    Ann Radcliffe,

 

Breathtaking pictures taken by a hiker on Keahiakahoe  HERE

Thanks for climbing by today!

Scrawl your

 "i was here"

in comments

                           Warmly, cloudia

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