Political Ant Hill

"If you are seeking creative ideas,

 go out walking ...

 Angels whisper to a man (sic)

when he goes for a walk ..."

 RAYMOND INMON

 "To live is so startling

 it leaves little time for anything else." 

Emily Dickinson

"The longest journey

 is the journey inward ... "

DAG HAMMARSKJOLD

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Researcher David Matsumoto at San Francisco State

University is studying facial expressions

and emotions.  His work is funded by the

Defense Department:

"Contempt...

is an emotion of moral superiority,

and disgust is an emotion of

contamination,

and people want to

eliminate a contaminated object.

When leaders of 

ideologically motivated groups

talk with a combination of

anger, contempt, and disgust,

they're showing their motivation

to eliminate others

by exhibiting their moral superiority.

This can lead directly to

genocide."

Think of this as you listen to politicians.

Whatever "values" they claim,

you may know them by their words

and actions.

"I'm heartbroken

by the mean tone enveloping

America."

Elton John

This has been a test,

If you discount the 

research

is it because it was conducted in

San Francisco?

By an Asian person?

Did you laugh at Elton John's comment

because he is a gay man? 

CNN Today-

  A school board district member in Arkansas who came under fire for an anti-gay post on a social networking site regrets the comments and will resign his seat, he told CNN's Anderson Cooper on Thursday.

"I'm sorry I've hurt people with my comments," Clint McCance, vice-president of the Midland School District in Pleasant Plains, Arkansas said. "I'm sorry I made those ignorant comments and hurt people on a broad spectrum."

McCance wrote on his personal Facebook page that he wanted gay people to commit suicide, according to The Advocate, a newspaper focusing on gay news.

McCance used the terms "queer" and "fag" repeatedly, promised to disown his own children if they are gay and stated that he enjoys "the fact that [gay people] give each other AIDS and die."

"I would never support suicide for any kids," he said. "I don't support bullying of any kids."

"I'd like to extend apologies to those families that have lost children, for all those children who feel that suicide is the only way out, especially for the five families who have already lost children," he said, referring to a rash of recent suicides by gay teens. "I brought more hurt on them... they didn't deserve that and I do feel genuinely bad for them."

I'm reaping what I've sown," he told CNN. "I've had a lot of hate speech thrown at me and my family on every level."

What are We Reaping, America?

The good news is

that is in YOUR power,

right now,

to repent ("turn back").

This does not mean

approving,

or agreeing,

with everything.

It means thinking before you speak.

Owning your motivation.

Accepting responsibility.

You don't know what is in the heart

of another person-

But you can be sure of one thing:

They DO have a heart

just like YOU.

Act like it;

Let's call it

"The Golden Rule"

           Thanks for your visit today, cloudia

Hawaii 5-O Actor James MacArthur Dead

He originated the role of Danno

on the classic Hawaii 5-O

His Mom was the famous actress Helen Hayes

"Actors cannot choose the manner in which they are born.

 Consequently, it is the one gesture in their lives

 completely devoid of self-consciousness."

Helen Hayes 

"I got into the acting business very young."

James MacArthur 

"Beating the drums for Hawaii is not hard to do...

 the place just grows on you."

James MacArthur

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"Age is not important unless you're a cheese."

Helen Hayes 

Scott Caan, today's Danno

"Childhood is a short season."

Helen Hayes

 "There are five stages in the life of an actor:

 Who's Mary Astor?

 Get me Mary Astor.

 Get me a Mary Astor Type.

 Get me a young Mary Astor.

 Who's Mary Astor?"

Mary Astor

 "When I see the road I've taken,

 I have to say that thanks to good luck,

 because without good luck one can do nothing,

 I've come out pretty well."

James MacArthur 

Aloha, James

Mahalo

I Am Become. . .

Aloha

and Welcome to Waikiki!

“I think theres a little child in all of us

 and we all to often forget

 to let the child out to play.”

 Donna A. Favors 

Watching a Shadow-Show on da Wall

"To them, I said,

 the truth would be literally nothing

 but the shadows of the images

upon that wall."

Plato

Between classes: Manoa Elementary School

"Human felicity is produced

 not as much by great pieces of good fortune

 that seldom happen

 as by little advantages

 that occur every day."

Benjamin Franklin 

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A thousand little hammers

(mallets really)

tap tap tapping

rarely pausing, tap,

tap, tap tap. . .

I would build of myself

something solid

something three-dimensional

but each tiny (some bigger)

tap

tap tap

only works me out thinner.

I am losing stolidity

finer and finer

reaching an ever-thinner edge

with tiny cracks forming

like feelers

transmitting both ways.

No longer a wall,

an island,

or exposed nerve,

 I now am resonant 

trembling with immediacy

received from every side.

I have produced no

statue,

no bracelet, no

coin.

But am become

as a

 cymbal sounding,

 echoing certain vibrations

trembling;

Yet I am earth-brass,

gold flesh hung on an axis,

sometimes spinning

smashing wildly-

When I am

      "worked."  cloudia

inspired by the brass workers of India

Thank YOU for visiting today!

Rainbow Connection

A L O H A!

"What I hoped was worth sharing with people

 turned out to be far more important

 than I could possibly imagine." 

                                    Keith Richards

Made me realize:

that's how I feel about blogging

(including following others :)

Perfection in Pink

“Each Time you step off your path  and give someone an act of kindness... then your road to Happiness  just got a little Smoother.”

Donna A. Favors

Mammatus Clouds

"If a little dreaming is dangerous, 

the cure for it is not to dream less

 but to dream more,

 to dream all the time"

  Marcel Proust 

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Today's video is a TREASURE

 created my my friend Richard!

please treat yourself :)

Hawaii Local 5-O Insider

ALOHA Friend!

In a perfect place

it would rain at night while you sleep.

Since Waikiki enjoys the best weather on the planet,

that is just what happens!

Today we woke up to cloudy skies, rainbows,

diminishing rain, clean fragrances.

Soon amazing winter skies put on a puffy cloud show;

 It always makes me happy.

The Trade Winds are back too -

 so life feels perfect.

Rainy nights, some cloudy days, breezy,

blue skies, sunshine and WHITE clouds,

 daily highs in the mid 80s (F).

That's Winter in Hawaii.

Inhale Deeply!

“I saw a star, I reached for it, and I missed.  So I accepted the sky.”

Scott Fortini

Good Morning!

“When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back  and laugh at the sky.”

Buddha

My privilege to bring it to you.

Thanks for visiting!

Try leave one comment, eh?

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Last night's Hawaii 5-O episode

opened with a cameo by well regarded local waterman, Brian Keaulana, (more here)doing what he does best:

a big water rescue.

It was interesting to see characters talking da kine pidgin

(here) and it wasn't too cringe-inducing.


 A real dynamic:

how malihini Danno doesn't understand pidgin,
 but local boy Steve does.

Honest use of "Haole" as a sort of (sometimes fond) slur.
 It would be dishonest to portray us without any discrimination, but it is VERY different than what is normal on the "mainland"
 and in general we DO have a rainbow culture here.
 But causasian visitor, it never hurts to be sincere and humble (compared to how we act in New York)

and to overlook some post-colonial resentment.

It really all depends on how YOU act. 
Act as a guest, not a visiting white god
 and you should be OK.

It was cool to see a character studying the tidepools,
 but wasn't that Leeward Makaha masquerading as North Shore "Waimea Bay" (caption)
?

Yes!
 Pig hunting and off-road motorcycling are HUGE here!

KAPU means Set apart, Holy, Special, TABOO,
 so interesting to see the local "club" called "Da Kapu."

This is based on a real group of locals who make great friends and bad enemies. Yes, it was drugs for a while, now mostly surfing and related industries.

They have a different name that is known,
 but I ain't calling them out.

Respect! Defend Hawaii.
 Keep the Country Country!

Our tent cities are not full of employed yuppies.

Yes, housing is very hight, and many of our young do have to move mainland fo` work, but our beach tents are full of local Hawaiians and others,

many employed, but homeless and eking out a living on their own islands. That was real prettied-up.

Local kid, ukulele jamming Aidan La Pret (here)
got his moment singing and playing around the campfire.
Did you see/hear him? (we met him before here).


KAPU leader Kawika's (Kah-Vee-Kah)
tribal tattoos looked authentic Polynesian.


"We nevah do noting!" Loved that familiar (pidgin)
refrain from the tough guys once caught.
Rings true :) 




"Katonk" bike rental?"


 A shout out to our Japanese-American WWII veterans (the most decorated units EVER. See here). Katonk is the sound a mainland Japanese head makes when it hits the ground in a boot camp scuffle. The Hawaii guys had a pride and solidarity that mainland-born Japanese-American guys seemed to lack, they "acted haole" and didn't speak pidgin.  Stupid Katonks!


Very nice surfer funeral EXCEPT that all ages are usually represented at such an event!


 Widows, friends, elders, the Kahu (minister)
 travel in outrigger canoes.


Still a moving scene to end on;
 and that was local fave Butch Helemano (here)
(a Reggae/Island Music performer and Kahu
regarded as a Hawaiian cultural expert) presiding.
Good Chanting!


And ending the show with Bruddah Iz?


PERFECT as always!


Show is picked up for next season
and getting better week by week.




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