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HRH King Kalakaua, 

Iolani Palace, Honolulu

Expression

A  L  O  H  A !

You can tell more about a person 

by what he says about others than you 

can by what others say about him. 

 Audrey Hepburn

It is not worth an intelligent person's 

time to be in the majority. 

By definition, there 

are already enough 

people to do that.

              G. H. Hardy

Of all the things you wear, your 

expression is the most important. 

             Janet Lane

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Cactus Hearts

A  L  O  H  A !

 Northern Marin County, CA

”You may find the worst enemy 

or best friend in yourself.”

                   English Proverb

Historic Adobe, Sonoma Link

” Live each day 

as if your life 

had just begun.” 

           Goethe

Cactus Heart

“If we are not willing to 

let go knotty and prickly 

issues in time, our 

mental frame can be 

wrecked before long. ” 

         Erik Pevernagie

"What a beautiful world it would be 

if humans had hearts like dogs."

                                  Anon [probably a dog]

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Travel Tuesday

Tuesday Treasures

Happy Tuesday

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Soaring

A  L  O  H   A !

"Who else has seen 
the unclimbed peaks?
The rainbow's secret?
The real reason birds sing?

- Because I Fly,

I envy no man on earth."

     Grover C. Norwood

"Four wheels move the body. 

Two wheels move the soul. "

                  Unknown

98 early aircraft world records 

were set with BMW engines!

"- the cornerstone of BMW

 was the aeroplane or, 

better said, the early 

flying machine." 

                         Link

"For once you have tasted flight, 

you will walk the Earth with 

you eyes turned skywards, for 

there you have been and 

there you will long to return."

        Leonardo Da Vinci

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Relics of San Francisco Chinatown

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 'Towns are like people. 
Old ones often have character, 
the new ones are interchangeable."
              Wallace Stegner

Rooftop Ornament Zoomed

Old, Detailed, Unnoticed.

 Is that a pineapple? Of course

I love the spirals!

"Celadon is a term for pottery denoting both wares glazed in the jade green celadon color, also known as greenware and a type of transparent glaze, often with ..."

Traditional Chinese‎: ‎青瓷 Kanji‎: ‎青磁

Simplified Chinese‎: ‎青瓷 Hangul‎: ‎청자

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Saints Peter and Paul Church
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Chinatown and 

North Beach / Little Italy

are cheek by jowl.

         Link

Portsmouth Square, Chinatown's Living room
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"The household with its 

own elder has indeed 

its own adornment."

      Chinese Proverb

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Hawaii Photo of the Day

Queen Theater, Kaimuki

Gift to Be Simple

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"Love and compassion are 

necessities, not luxuries. 

Without them humanity 

cannot survive."

             Dalai Lama

Saint Raphael Church & 

Mission San Rafael Arcangel

Mission San Rafael Arcangel founded December 14, 1817 

San Rafael, Marin Country

California Historical Landmark No. 220.

"Raise your words, 

not voice. It is rain 

that grows flowers, 

not thunder."

                Rumi 

Linking to
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"The most complicated 

skill is to be simple."

                     Dejan Stojanovic

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City Lights Bookstore

A  L  O  H  A !

“Suppose 

we suddenly 

wake up and see 

that what we thought 

to be this and that,

 ain't this and that 

at all?” 

                       Jack Kerouac, 

                                     The Dharma Bums

Alley outside is the link between Chinatown
& Italian neighborhood. Full of art! [and tourists!]

“I am waiting

for the meek to be blessed

and inherit the earth...

without taxes” 

                         Lawrence Ferlinghetti

                                  [Still going strong in his 90's!]

Sign reads: "Poet For Hire"

“The Beats and the Pranksters showed us 

different ways of opting out of society. 

They were both the personification of 

countercultural movements. The Beats 

were trying to change literature, 

and the Pranksters were trying to 

change the people and the country. 

Kesey, in fact, was his own 

cultural revolution, striving 

to keep the upbeat, 

freedom-loving spirit 

of America alive.” 

                 Sterling Lord, 

                                Lord of Publishing: A Memoir

[///]

" Founded in 1953 by 

poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti 

and Peter D. Martin, City Lights 

was our nation's 

first all-paperback bookstore. 

This great independent bookstore

 hosted Allen Ginsburg 

and other famous Beat Poets

 for their earliest readings.

Visitors from across the country 

and around the world come every day 

to browse, read, and just soak in 

the ambiance of alternative culture's 

only "Literary Landmark." "

Back in the early 1960's tour buses 

showed tourists the "beatniks" by 

pulling up in front of City Lights! 

Today, the Beats' legacy of 

anti-authoritarian politics and 

insurgent thinking continues to

be a strong influence in the store."

" The City Lights masthead says 

A Literary Meetingplace since 1953, 

and this concept includes publishing books 

as well as selling them. 

In 1955, Ferlinghetti launched 

City Lights Publishers with the now-famous 

Pocket Poets Series; Today, City Lights has 

well over two hundred titles in print, with 

a dozen new titles being published each year. 

The press is known and respected for 

its commitment to innovative and 

progressive ideas, and its resistance to forces 

of conservatism and censorship. 

All City Lights Publications 

that are currently available are proudly 

featured in the bookstore and 

on their website as well.

With this bookstore-publisher combination, 

"it is as if," says Ferlinghetti,

 "the public were being invited, in person 

and in books, to participate in that 

'great conversation' between authors of all ages, 

ancient and modern." City Lights has become 

world-famous, but it has retained 

an intimate, casual, anarchic charm. 

It's a completely unique 

San Francisco experience, and 

a must for anyone who 

appreciates good books. "

From the Webpage

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Thank YOU

for joining us

today!

May you feel

liberated from the 

same old arguments

into a realm of 

possibility, and 

personal creativity!

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Fogerty Rocked Honolulu

A  L  O  H  A !    click all photos

Honolulu June5

 " Over on the mountain
Thunder magic spoke,
"Let the people know my wisdom,
Fill the land with smoke."

Better run through the jungle. . . "
                                             John Fogerty

Bob Malone keyboards

" I believe in God

but I also believe

in having fun

on my motorcycle.

These two things

are not incompatible.

Gas fumes

are more likely

to be around me

than incense,

but that is holy

as far as I am

concerned. "

                        The Reverend Lou Valone

" The Witness delights 
in the sheer joy 
of existence and 
knows it's power."
                         Greg Catchur 

Flashback!    1969!

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[John is 70 years young!]

WOW!

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Antique Robots

A  L  O  H  A !

" Nothing is stranger to man 

than his own image. "

Karel Čapek 

(January 9, 1890 – December 25, 1938) 

Czech author and playwright, who introduced and made popular

 the word robot as a word for artificial human beings, 

which first appeared in his play

 R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) in 1920

LINK

This speaker wearing a flowered hat

 evokes the capable, friendly robots

 of 1950's Sci-Fi

" In the twenty-first century, 
the robot will take the place 
which slave labor occupied 
in ancient civilization. "
Nikola Tesla
[10 July 1856 – 7 January 1943]

courtesy:
 Osaka Tin Toy Institute

" And all plans, safeguards, 
policing and coercion 
are fruitless. 
 We find that after 
years of struggle we 
do not take a trip, 
a trip takes us. "

                    John Steinbeck

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What a long, strange
trip it's been!
From Teddy bears
to white noise machines.
From Robby the Robot
to SIRI and OK GOOGLE.

What's around
the next corner?
Let's see it 
T O G E T H E R!

Life is just
getting interesting.
[The first 50 or so
years are just practice]



Thank YOU
for humming along!
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