Honolulu New, Old, Forever

A  L  O  H  A !

Bless the people

who acquire and use

real practical skills

to build and keep

our society running!

Oahu has always been

"The Gathering Place"

Since Monarchy days.

Always changing,

always thronged with

both native born,

newcomer,

and visitor.

Crossroads of the Pacific!

We have urban Honolulu.

We also have farms and ranches.

We live close with our

history and island ethos.

The way we treat one another

is the real pull.

No place is like this place.

This is the place,

my place.

Welcome

Linking To
Our World Tuesday

⍯⍦

                                 cloudia

Waikiki Verticals

A  L  O  H  A !

 The yellow of your dress

dialogues, no SINGS, harmony

with the Rainbow Shower Trees!

 Fans & Lanterns are cousins

as Asia has long known.

Kites are the black sheep soaring,

riding, hiding, gliding,

serving only their own fancy.

And the slender thread.

Verticals Heretical

to some.

But Hawaiians of old

piled stone upon stone to 

height for their purposes too.

Original Verticals

of Waikiki.

Royal Groves of palms.

The Magic, the surf, and

the breezes remain.

As do these beauties!

Linking To
Sky Watch

Aloha Dear Friend!

                                     cloudia

Over The Rainbow in Waikiki

A  L  O  H  A !

"Don't leave Hawaii.

You can never come back."

That's what the 

local people say.

The lure of owning a home, 

of better wages, the heat. . . . 

It all tempts Hawaii residents

to go California, or 

Vegas, or Seattle.

But once you are there ,

Hawaii calls 

in a million and one ways. 

The warmth of her people, 

the technicolor skies and 

mountains,not to mention 

Hawaii's food and music!

All have a way of calling 

in your dreams

like a siren song.

I heard that song for almost 

four years in California.

And coming back ISN'T easy!

But today I write to you 

from my Waikiki

of almost 30 years. 

Home Again.

Brother IZ Surfboard

I will never leave my friends, 
family and islands again.
Welcome back!
We are in Waikiki together once again.
Truly. Somewhere over the rainbow.

Mahalo for your visit. 
You are MOST welcome here!

A  L  O  H  A
Pumehana

ㄎㄎㄎㄎㄎㄎㄎㄎㄎㄎㄎㄎㄎㄎㄎㄎㄘ

Thank YOU

Friend!

                Fondly, cloudia

When To Move

A  L  O  H  A !

If you are seriously drawn to 

a place you want to live, 

don't tell yourself that 

you will retire there. 

That is too late. 

Move there now, 

live your life there, 

make lifetime friends there, 

have your major victories 

and minor defeats there. 

When you are old, 

it is too late to really 

become PART of the place 

and it's people. Go now. 

Then you can retire as a 

true part the place you love!

ककककककककककककककककककठ

Thank YOU

Friend!

             Warmly, cloudia

My Rainbow City Honolulu

A  L  O  H  A !

Today is the day.

The day 

you don't know about.

After 30 years

We are going

'Somewhere Else'

Not to visit for a few days,

but to live for a while.

A new home.

All the hopes
of making it here. . . 


I remember the day
we got our 
Hawaii Drivers licenses;
The day I got my degree
from University of Hawaii.


I know these streets so well,
driving over them so many
days and nights
as a taxi driver,
health out-reach 
to the sex workers,
Riding motorcycles
in the pack. . .

Special ocassions
with family & friends 
long gone. . .

I have a memory
for every block,
every beach,
every stretch of 
country road.
On 4 wheels 
and two.

Lots of
"Used to be"
and 
"When did they build THAT?"

I'm leaving a lot
of myself
on these streets,
roads. . .

I cannot think
about my friends
and Ohana,
The Local Culture,
without crying. . . 

Aloha Neighbors!

What seemed unthinkable
[leaving]
is subsumed in a bigger 
dream.

A fresh begining
in a beautiful new place.

Instead of retiring
in place, we are 
fresh and new 
- beginning again -
as we did here.

.

30 years.

Half of my life.
Here's to the next
Third!



I'm very glad
that YOU are coming 
along!

Our blog party family
is portable!
[Thank Goodness!]

So ride the spiral.

See where we are landing-


Oh I know we'll visit Honolulu.

Nights in my dreams,
and some sunny day...
at least for a visit. . . 
I Shall Return.

There may be a few
scheduled posts
as we sort out
internet connectivity.
I may not be visiting
as normal for a while.

But stick around.

Something good
is set to publish tomorrow.
Kitty and I will be
learning new routines.
LOVE YOU!
                        cloudia




Honolulu I Am Coming Back Again 

 Andy Cummings 

Chorus:

" I seem to hear the Pali calling me

I seem to hear the surf at Waikiki

And from Pacific Heights

I seem to see the lights

Of a city that is very dear to me

I seem to see the waving sugar cane

The coco palms all nodding in the rain

In fancy I am led 
Back to dear old Diamond Head

Honolulu, I am coming back again

Honolulu, I am coming back again. "

Words by F. B. Silverwood Music by David Lindeman.

Copyright 1922 F.B. Silverwood. 

Andy Cummings made this memorable recording

 in the late 1950s of the 1922 composition. 

Length:2:46

Released on: 01-01-1955

Andy Cummings and his Hawaiian Serenaders 

LINK

Your Perfect Place

A  L  O  H  A !

" If I have learnt anything, 

it is that life forms

 no logical patterns. -

- It is haphazard and 

full of beauties which

 I try to catch

 as they fly by,

 for who knows

 whether any of them 

will ever return? "

                        Margot Fonteyn

I'll Build a Stairway to Paradise

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Is there a 

Perfect Place to live?

That would differ 

for different folks.

A Laplander or Inuit

might hate jungles,

while a jungle woman

would freeze

in their world.

Do you love mountains?

Lakes? Deserts? 

The Sea?

The town of your birth,

or a place made 

just your own

far, far Away?

Town? Country?

Condo or ranch?

Do we need

People like us?

or perhaps a

foreign land?

For some a tiny

uninhabited isle

would be just

perfect,

Perfectly Grand!

Name one thing

you love

about Your Home;

[And one you hate,

IF you dare.]

I'll start us off:

"Hawaii's uniqueness

&

Hawaii's uniqueness"

[for good and less-good]

Now YOUr turn!

                            Fondly, cloudia

LifeStyle Shock

A L O H A !

Our New View

" Home is a name,

a word,

it is a strong one; 

stronger than magician ever spoke,

or spirit ever answered to,

in the strongest conjuration.  "

Charles Dickens

Ala Moana Beach Park

" The light is what guides you home,

the warmth is what keeps you there.  "

Ellie Rodriguez

The Ala Wai Canal

" We shape our buildings;

thereafter they shape us.  "

Winston Churchill

S P A C E !

" Peace - 

that was the other name for home. "

Kathleen Norris

" There is nothing like staying at home

for real comfort. "

Jane Austen

This will take some getting used to.

" Where thou art - that - is Home.  "

Emily Dickinson

 

View from my bed

" Tis distance lends enchantment

to the view, 

and robes the mountain 

in its azure hue.  "

Thomas Campbell  

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We are in lifestyle shock.

WE have spent 2 nights in the new apt.

It is like waking

from the 20 year dream

of the boat.

That cramped hot place

 was an adventure

for quite a while.

I am remembering

what conveniences

are.

Miss Kitty

is adjusting better

than anyone has the right

to expect from a cat:

"Boat? What boat?"

First she seemed suspicious,

then appraising,

now appreciating;

This is where the love,

and food (!)

are.

I can lie in my bed

watch the sky,

the mountains,

the habitations of people:

my beloved

Island of Oahu.

Dear Honolulu.

I watch evening come to the land,

and remember

like a previous life

what it was like

to live upon those

mountains.

Then I look to the sea,

the sunset,

and thank my lucky stars

as they arise!

Thanks for stopping by.

Your encouragement

and kitty advice

is much appreciated.

         Warmly, cloudia

I am remembering who I was

before we went to sea.

 

Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room.  ~Harriet Beecher Stowe