Doubt Your Doubt

 A   L   O   H   A  !

Doubt your doubts before 

you doubt yourself.

        Lewis Pugh

A person who 

has good thoughts 

cannot ever be ugly. 

You can have a wonky nose 

and a crooked mouth and a

double chin and stick-out teeth,

but if you have good thoughts 

they will shine out of your face 

like sunbeams and you 

will always look lovely.

Roald Dahl

 

If you want to 

see the sunshine, 

you have to 

weather the storm.

Frank Lane

You can't have a wrong 

mentality about life and 

expect that you will see 

the bright side of life.

         Bamigboye Olurotimi

 When words are 

both true 

and kind, 

they can change 

the world.

Buddha

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Linking To

Saturday Critters

After The Hurricane

A   L   O   H   A !

Summer afternoon, 

summer afternoon; 

to me those have 

always been the two 

most beautiful words 

in the English language. 

Henry James

When you're a kid, 

you lay in the grass 

and watch the clouds 

going over, and you 

literally don't have a 

thought in your mind. 

It's purely meditation, 

and we lose that.     

          Dick Van Dyke

Dinner Show

African Daisy

Since everything

is a reflection 

of our minds, 

everything can 

be changed 

by our minds.

Buddha

Domestic Sweetie

You attract

what you are, 

not 

what you want. 

So if you want it 

then reflect it.

   Tony Gaskins

THAT close!

[I'm the bright fuchsia dot]

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Happy Tuesday

Pictorial Tuesday

My Corner Of The World

Big Little Things

A   L   O   H   A  !

I embrace my shadow self. 

Shadows give depth and 

dimension to my life. 

I believe in embracing 

my duality...

 as illumination.

           Jaeda DeWalt

Little things seem nothing, 

but they give peace, 

like those meadow flowers 

which individually seem odorless 

but all together perfume the air.     

      Georges Bernanos

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, 

but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, 

and small obligations given habitually, are 

what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

                 Humphry Davy

Perfect happiness is a beautiful sunset, 

the giggle of a grandchild, the first snowfall. 

It's the little things that make happy moments, 

not the grand events. Joy 

comes in sips, not gulps.     

             Sharon Draper

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Little Things Thursday

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Love You,

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Seeing Is Choosing

A  L  O  H  A !

If one sees only unloveliness in others, it is 

because unloveliness is a strong element 

in himself. The light he throws on others is 

generated in his own soul and sees them 

as he chooses to see them.

               Ernest Holmes

We are all butterflies. 

Earth is our chrysalis.

             LeeAnn Taylor

Thirstily he set it to his lips, and as its cool refreshment began to soothe his throat, he thanked Heaven that in a world of much evil there was still so good a thing as ale.

                Rafael Sabatini

There was a place in childhood 

that I remember well, and 

there a voice of sweetest tone 

bright fairy tales did tell.

Samuel Lover

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Little Things Thursday

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                                     Cloudia

Keys And Choices

A  L  O  H  A !

 The key to a good life is this: 

If you're not going to talk about something 

during the last hour of your life, then 

don't make it a top priority during your lifetime.

               Richard Carlson

Ki`i  Link
 Memories are truths we have chosen.

                      C.E. O'Grady

 Brothers

Choose to be kind over being right 

and you'll be right every time.

        Richard Carlson

A low mood is not the time to analyze your life. . . 

The trick is to be grateful for our good moods 

and graceful in our low moods—not taking them too seriously. The next time you feel low, f

or whatever reason, remind yourself, 

“This too shall pass.” It will.

            Richard Carlson

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Thank You!

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Walking in Waikiki

A  L  O  H  A !

"Spirits Blurred My Shot!"

“A good story is a 

good story no 

matter who wrote it.” 

                Anne McCaffrey

Papaya Tree

"Always, visit old haunts 

that will disappear."

     Karen Sather

Everyone has seen Diamond Head,

but it is the little side streets,

the neighborhood apartments

of Waikiki that I love - 

- And the

tropic light through

leaves in a small garden.

ଭଭଭଭଭଭଭଭଭଭଭଭଭଭଭଭଭଭଭଭଭଭ

Yes, Karen, It's important

to reconnect with places we

have lived and loved.

Thank YOU

Friend!

                    Warmly, cloudia

Hawaii Photo of the Day

A  L  O  H  A !

Hawaii Photo of the Day

A  L  O  H  A !

Wo Fat

Lei Store

Bonus: TIKI / KI`I

Your Gods are Adorable!

A   L   O   H   A  !

" Colonialism.
The enforced spread
of the rule of reason.
But who is going to
spread it 
among the colonizers? "

Anthony Burgess

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Our visitor in the picture 

is unknowingly 

disrespecting a TIKI.

They originally represented 

Hawaiian Gods.

Or is it the restaurateur

who placed it there?

Yes, they were " Idols "

and were literally

" Cast Down "

by the Hawaiian People

themselves, under 

missionary influence.

The Hawaiian Kingdom
was overthrown
 January 17, 1893 

LINK

What does it do to a people

when their culture

is turned into kitsch?

Some contemporary 

Hawaiians are 

Traditional Cultural Practitioners.

Many more Hawaiians

and local residents

are Very proud

of Hawaiian Culture.

This is not a

slap on the wrist;

But a lesson

behind 

just another day

in Waikiki. . .

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Tiki Cave

ALOHA, Sunday Friend!

click on photos if you like, eh?

Sand Island Access Road is an industrial area of our Honolulu
known for shipping, industry, and marinas.

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"Creation, we are taught is not an act that happened once upon a time,
once and for ever. The act of bringing the world into existence is a continuous process.”
Abraham Joshua Heschel

It's also home to La Mariana, a private marina.

LM is known for it's piano bar and restaurant.
It is like making a trip back to the tiki bars of the 50's.

Wonderful specimens are everywhere in abundance...

This fellow is eating a delicious pig.



While we ate, my friend told me about a time
when he was wandering about on the Big Island, Hawaii.





He came upon a cave full of very old Tikis.





What were they doing there,
these family heirlooms passed down
over generations?






The missionaries
told the people to
burn
these "infernal, pagan images."






Imagine
the extra-terrestrials landing among us.





Their technology is clearly far ahead of ours.
They tell us that our beliefs are primitive;





Then they tell us to burn
our churches, synagogues, mosques & temples.







Unable to part with the spiritual treasures
that our parents and grandparents valued,
we might bury the Torahs, Bibles, statues, & symbols.







And that's what happened
to the Hawaiian people.

Sleep well, gods!







ALOHA Friend, cloudia