It's ALOHA Friday
in Hawaii!
"Great events make me quiet and calm,
it is only trifles
that irritate my nerves."
Queen Victoria
See the little Prince leaving his royal parents and going into the Hawaiian
Lobby mural in the Leiopapa a Kamehameha Building (State Office Tower).
235 South Beretania Street, Honolulu,
named after little Prince
Albert Edward Kauikeaouli Leiopapa a Kamehameha;
Born to King Kamehameha IV and Queen Emma
on May 20, 1858,
he was only four-years old when he passed away
due to meningitis on August 27, 1862.
The spirit of the young prince, affectionately known to the people as
Ka Haku O Hawai'i "The Lord Of Hawai'i,"
is said to inhabit the building named in his honor to this day:
Leiopapa a Kamehameha translates to"
"The Flower Of His Father Kamehameha."
Much hope rested on this little boy whose godmother was
Queen Victoria.
Hawaii still loves protocol and pageant.
This is the Brothers Cazimero's Christmas Show
"You can become a winner
only if you are willing
to walk over the edge."
Damon Runyon
(for Robert Cazimero)
Iolani Palace by Night.
Electrified by Edison himself, years before the US White House.
Honolulu's citizenry gathered right here
at eve to watch the lights come on all at once,
a bit of magic we take for granted today.
"Our children
(and elderly parents! cloudia)
give us the opportunity
to become the parents we always wished
we had."
Louise Hart
By Day
"Morality may consist solely
in the courage to make a choice."
Leon Blum
In Gingerbread!
"And I had but one penny in the world.
Thou should’st have it to buy gingerbread."
William Shakespeare,
Love’s Labours Lost
"The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound,
without any power to compare and rank his sensations,
abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog,
individualizing everything, generalizing nothing,
delighted with every new thing,
lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred.
But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic.
She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame,
by all these attitudes and exertions /an end of the first importance,
which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Meanwhile. . .
May you delight in everything that comes today.
May the child in you stir
and awake
for a season of Wonder
and radical Hope.
That is my wish for
YOU.
What is YOURS? cloudia
.JPG)
.JPG)
