Homeward Magicness

A   L   O   H   A  !

Marin, California Nov 2015 - May 2019  -  "Final Dawn"

There is a kind of magicness about going 

far away and then coming back all changed.

            Kate Douglas Wiggin

The day arrived. Final exit from "our"

driveway, and leaving of "our" street, our

 neighborhood. Dear neighbor drove us.

Goodbye, Pacheco Pond,

Golden Gate Bridge. Likely I will

never cross you again. Going home.

No intention to ever leave again.

Hawaii.

"Leaving On A Jet Plane"

All roads lead home as home 

is where the heart is. 

So Love. Simply Love. 

For love is home to all of us.

        Wald Wassermann

I want to be someone you can’t live without.

           Charlotte Eriksson

VERY complicated procedure to bring

even an island born pet home!

Multiple tests, vet visits, and messengered

official paperwork for the State!

Every detail scrutinized, double checked.

Or Pixie would be incarcerated on return.

For months. The State office at HONO

that handles such matters was 

peopled by sad folks after long flights,

who just didn't know!

Children separated from pets! Adult

children separated from theirs, sadly.

At last a State veterinarian carrying

Pixie and a thick sheaf of documents

with our name on it appeared.

All in order! Happy Day!!!

We left the sad people,

an intact family for the

final leg of this epic journey:

Waikiki.

It was his home now. But 

it could not be his home till he had 

gone from it and returned to it. 

Now he was the Prodigal Son.

             G.K. Chesterton

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What Hawaiian Airlines played on the plane. Whenever I hear it, I'm onboard!

True Nature of Things

A  L  O  H  A !

"For in the true nature of things, if 

we rightly consider, every green tree 

is far more glorious than if it were 

made of gold and silver."

               Martin Luther

"It is difficult to realize 

how great a part of all 

that is cheerful and delightful 

in the recollections of our own 

life is associated with trees."

      Wilson Flagg

"Repetition doesn’t really exist. 

As far as your mind is concerned, 

nothing happens the same twice, 

even if in every technical sense, 

the thing is identical. 

Your perception is 

constantly shifting. It 

doesn’t stay in one place."

            Brian Eno

Linking To

Wild Bird Wednesday     

My Corner Of The World 

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To Fly

A  L  O  H  A !

HNL Honolulu Daniel Inouye International Airport

“Flying starts from the ground. 

The more grounded you are, 

the higher you fly.” 

            J.R. Rim

Honolulu Airport Meditation Garden

“The island is ours. 

Here, in some way, 

we are young forever.” 

    E. Lockhart

Molokai

“Every island to a child 

is a treasure island.” 

              P.D. James

San Francisco

“Our field is the sky,

tilled by the sweat of motors,

in the face of night,

at the risk of our dreams" 

          Ingeborg Bachmann

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President Can't Swim - King Is Dead

A  L  O  H  A !

Marin CA Morning

"I like the night. 

Without the dark,

 we'd never 

see the stars."

        Stephenie Meyer

Across The Golden Gate

"If one morning 

I walked on top of the water 

across the Potomac River, 

the headline that afternoon 

would read 

"President Can't Swim"."

        Lyndon B. Johnson

"Greenberg San Francisco"

"Every disadvantage 

has its advantage"

      Ukrainian Proverb

"Honolulu Sewers 1917"

Monarchy Digression

Scene: Me on my

very wet motor scooter,

waiting at a red light

by Honolulu City Hall,

I looked across at 

Lunalilo's Tomb,

he a Kamehameha,

and thought:

"I'm looking at the Tomb

of a King, built when

Hawaii was a Kingdom."

San Francisco

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Monday Murals

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Our World Tuesday

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My Two Landmarks

A  L  O  H  A !

Diamond Head / Mt. Leahi

Diamond Head is the symbol of 

Honolulu, Hawaii & Waikiki.

Golden Gate Bridge - Towards San Francisco

The Golden Gate Bridge 

is the world-wide emblem 

of San Francisco

Diamond Head Entire, From Tantalus

Elevation‎: ‎762 ft (232 m)

Age of rock‎: ‎200,000 years

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Almost Entire - From Marin Headlands

8,981 feet long (1.7 miles)

Contains about 88,000 tons of steel.

Total weight of the bridge is 887,000 tons.

Approximately 80,000 miles of wire inside 

each of the two steel cables.

The towers stand 726 feet above the water and 

500 feet above street level. They weigh 

44,000 tons each and are 4,200 feet 

apart from each other.

The bridge is 90 feet wide. Street level is 

about 220 feet above the water.

1848 - Captain John C. Fremont names the cleft in the Coastal Mountain Range opening onto San Francisco Bay the Golden Gate. The bridge derives its name from the land feature and not its color.

1916 - James H. Wilkins comes up with the idea to connect northern California to the San Francisco peninsula.

December 1924 - The United States War Department, the government entity responsible for the entire area surrounding the strait, approves the project.

1928 - The Golden Gate Bridge and Highway District is formed and Joseph B. Strauss is appointed as architect/designer.

January 5, 1933 - Construction begins.

May 27, 1937 - The bridge is completed and opens to pedestrians. The bridge is built at a cost of approximately $35.5 million and comes in under budget and ahead of schedule.

May 28, 1937 - The bridge is opened to vehicles."

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Me & Diamond Head 

“I live in my own little world. 

But its ok, they know me here.” 

       Lauren Myracle

Driving across the G.G.

"I have two homes, like someone 

who leaves their hometown 

and/or parents and then 

establishes a life elsewhere. 

They might say that 

they're going home 

when they return to see 

old friends or parents, 

but then they go home as well 

when they go to where 

they live now. 

Sarajevo is home, 

Chicago is home."

              Aleksandar Hemon

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Half Way To All The Way

A  L  O  H  A !

"A man is already 

halfway in love with 

any woman who 

listens to him."

              Brendan Francis

"Maybe you don't need 

the whole world to 

love you, you know, 

maybe you just 

need one person."

       Kermit The Frog

"Each moment of a 

happy lover's hour is 

worth an age of dull 

and common life."

Aphra Behn

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Self, Pleasure, Divinity

A  L  O  H  A !

“We all woke up this morning 

and we had with it the 

amazing return of our 

conscious mind. We recovered 

minds with a complete 

sense of self and a 

complete sense of 

our own existence — yet 

we hardly ever pause 

to consider this wonder.” 

                António R. Damásio

"Why not seize the 

pleasure at once?

How often is happiness 

destroyed by preparation, 

foolish preparation?"

                   Jane Austin

“Our humanity 

is an expression 

of divinity 

in action” 

   Kate Mullane Robertson

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Our World Tuesday

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