World Like A Mountain

A  L  O  H  A !

Sky Yoga Bow to the Sun

Suns are sunflowers 

of a higher light.

Richter.   

Conflict cannot survive 

without your participation.

Wayne Dyer

A smile re-cures 

the wounding of a frown.

             Shakespeare.

This world is like a mountain. 

Your echo depends on you. 

If you scream good things, 

the world will give it back. 

If you scream bad things, 

the world will give it back. 

 Change your heart to 

change the world.

 Shams Tabrizi 

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LOVE You,

                             cloudia & pixie

Linking To

Monday Murals

Honolulu's Built Enviornment

A   L   O   H   A  !

This city now doth, like a garment, 

wear the beauty of the morning; 

silent bare, ships, towers, domes, 

theatres and temples lie open 

unto the fields and to the sky; 

All bright and glittering 

in the smokeless air.     

              William Wordsworth

Towered cities please us then, 

and the busy hum of men.

       John Milton

There's something about 

arriving in new cities, 

wandering empty streets 

with no destination. 

I will never lose the love 

for the arriving. . .

      Charlotte Eriksson

The life of our city is rich in 

poetic and marvelous subjects. 

We are enveloped and steeped as though 

in an atmosphere of the marvelous; 

but we do not notice it.     

           Baudelaire

Our built environment

should enhance our sense of place,

preserving the uniqueness.

In Honolulu, I find a 19th Century

city, a 20th Century city, and a

21st Century city rising.

Preserving our viewplanes:

Mountain, Sky & Sea

is agreed to be crucial.

"WHEREAS, the public has expressed strong concerns

 including, but not limited to, the alleged need for the

   proposed project, the routing and manner of placement of the

   project if needed, long term financial and aesthetic impacts,

   destruction of viewplanes, scenic and recreational resources. . . "           Hawaii State Document Link

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Love You,

                                     cloudia

Urban Critters

A  L  O  H  A !

 Honolulu Mural Critters

So ready your mettle 

and steady your heart. 

It’s time for my story’s 

mysterious start...

   Robert Paul Weston, Zorgamazoo

 The smaller the creature, 

the bolder its spirit.

                 Suzy Kassem

Every creature has a right 

to be on this Earth. 

Who am I to disrupt 

the natural order? 

"Respect" 

is a good word worth 

handing down to our children.

              Laurence Overmire

Linking To

Saturday Critters
Monday Murals

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Thank You

Friend!

                Fondly, cloudia

Mountains Flowers and Art

ALOHA!

 Lots of people like an ocean view but there's nothing like the ever changing mountains.

 Tiny world.

     Kaka'ako was a district of workshops and small businesses. Now an up an coming neighborhood of Art, shopping and new residential towers.

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Thank you friend! Warmly, Cloudia

Hawaii Photo of the Day

A  L  O  H  A !

Point Panic - Kaka`ako Waterfront Park

A  L  O  H  A !

Click on Photos Please!

" Travel and change 

of place impart 

new vigour to

 the mind. "

                   Seneca

This is the entrance to  

Kaka`ako Waterfront Park 

[and Point Panic surf spot]

from the parking area.

Not much to see but 

palm-topped hills, 

because this was a landfill 

since the 1940's

and heavy "fill" 

slumbers within those mounds.

I came here with friends 

before the park was imagined

to drink and play the fool in a dirty,

out of the way area with

a sea view.

You could drive to the top

of the heap then. . . 

 "I can't go back to 

yesterday because 

I was a 

different person 

then. " Lewis Carroll

'The park has changed too.'

cloudia

 A path winds among the hills,

 but I prefer climbing to the top

where this pipe vents 

the buried landfill spirits.

[But keeps my secrets]

This is a spacious place 

in which to be alone

 with your thoughts - 

or disreputable companions.

But Honolulu is

 all around and 

very close.

To the west are the 

Waianae Mountains rising 

above the flat runways of 

the airport / air force base. 

The Aloha Tower 

[Opened September 11, 1926] 

presides over the 

docks and shipping area

as it has since Territorial Days

Link when it was 

the tallest building

in Hawaii. 

They still run the

 port/harbor from there.

Link

" Silence is 

sometimes 

the best answer. " 

                          The Dalai Lama

To the morning east

 one sees a tiny 

Diamond Head

faded as old denim by 

the sun rising behind.

It's gonna be 

another nice day

in 'paradise.'

 Every park must 

have guardians -

Linking to 
Saturday Critters

- Luckily it seems that

the guardians have friends

of their own.

No surfers today, but

 there is something

for almost everyone here. 

Nature, Sea & Sky

most of all.

 Plus space to 

breathe it all in.

The garbage is gone, or 

at least sleeping below the hills

that look out to sea,

the blue pacific, beyond

the reef.

I imagine

that I can see 

YOU waving!

Aloha, Friends;

Your visit

is the sun on my shore.

                       Fondly, cloudia

Linking to 
Sunlit Sunday

Read about the park, and see panoramic pictures: Kaka`ako Waterfront Park