Blues Beach

ALOHA Means

        "Welcome Friend :)"

Play The Song of the Day!

I love deep greens and blues. . .

 

. . .  But not being deep in the Blues.  

Right now,
there are those who are deeply depressed
in large mansions;
  But have you seen the

Amazing Smiles 
of the "developing world?"

  When you think back on
the wonderful times of your life,

how much did that wonderfulness
have to do with money?

  Often couples look back
on their early days of struggle
as good times.

It took years
to become the person
you are here today.

You carry wisdom & flaws

and you bless this world,

and all those around you,

in a unique way.

So carry on!

In joy and in melancholia.

Many of YOUR posts

have made me understand
  that I have companions

in this world,

just like me,
who understand.

Good People.

So here's to YOU, friend;

Whether in Mumbai, Britain,
Canada, Moscow,
Connecticut, Manhattan, Italy,
Cairo,
Jerusalem,
or Penang!

Aren't We Something!

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To rule something

you must first name it.

What do they call "The Blues"

in your part of the world?

Tell us in comments-

           Thanks for visiting!  cloudia

Happy New Year!!!!!

Gung Hee Fat Choy!!!!

       Best Luck to YOU from

                                  Honolulu-

"Go and wake up your luck."

  Persian Saying

 

 "May good luck be your friend

in whatever you do

and may trouble be always

a stranger to you."

Irish blessing

"Everything in life is luck."

Donald Trump


"Name the greatest of all inventors.

  Accident. "

Mark Twain

To EVERYONE!

Here's Your Sun

Aloha!

Welcome to the Sunshine

"What, 

I sometimes wonder,

 would it be like if I lived in a country

 where winter is a matter of a few chilly days

 and a few weeks' rain;

 where the sun is never far away,

 and the flowers bloom all year long?"

Anna Neagle

("It's pretty cool, actually."
Cloudia)

Valery Ponomarev on trumpet

"The respect of those you respect

is worth more

than the applause of the multitude."

Arnold Glasow

Sean Priester

"Silent gratitude

isn't much use

to anyone."

G.B. Stern

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“Most novelties, if they last one season, it’s a lot.

 If they last two seasons, it’s a phenomenon.

 To last 35 years is unheard of.”

"Uncle" Milt Levine, 1991

"The ants' most amazing feat

was putting my three kids 

through college."

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Ant farm mogul Milton M. Levine of Uncle Milton’s Ant Farm fame

 died Jan. 16 in Thousand Oaks, Calif. at the age of 97,

 but not before selling his company for $20 million or so,

 which happens to be about a dollar for every Ant Farm ever sold.

Levine’s Eureka moment came in 1956,

 when he spotted a mound of ants during a Fourth of July picnic

 at his sister’s poolside in Southern California.

“We should make an antarium.”

Selling for $1.98,

 the original 6-by-9-inch ant farm was an immediate hit,

 soon selling thousands a week by mail order to children.

Farewell, Uncle Milt!

(Thanks to the New York Time)

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Thanks for keeping your magnifying glass

in your pocket.

Thanks for visiting today!

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Ideals VS Interests

ALOHA!

click on the photos

He goes off to work.

A space is created.

Or revealed.

It is full of writhing

competing

concerns.

"Hey! Me over here!"

each one (of perhaps dozens)

yells all at once. . .

There will always be tasks, till the end of life.

I think that's what "Rest in Peace" means.

The "To Do" list is integral to our incarnate existence

and it's unending upkeep here.

. . . Yes certain worlds are always ending.

And certain people are attached passionately

to those ending worlds.

'Fin de siècle'

is not just a word to mispronounce

and the river of the Nile

is no longer a River of Denial

as millions awake

from a thirty year dream.

If young, you burn for possibilities;

if older you cheer them on

while thinking of stability and milk on the shelves.

Perhaps the best secret tonic

to perform the true alchemy

of changing ennui, fear & despair

into gold

is gratitude.

One begins mechanistically

(as one does to cultivate any new habit)

scratching the scalp trying to come up with

reasons to be grateful

but the cacophony is used to having it's sway

and we think always to be trapped

at their party.

But slowly gratitude ascends

 and broadens

like the sun.

(Touching everything)

It becomes a habit

and takes on a life of it's own.

Not a noisy life,

but punctuated with

quiet shouts of sudden joy.

Gratitude.

Not just because it is "a good thing to do"

or good and right & joyful,

or (forbid!) the sniveling of a slave

hoping to avoid more pain.

As gratitude takes on that life of it's own.

You will be out of step with others,

even thought 'simple.'

Your stomach will still churn from time to time.

Isn't that great!

For the dead need nothing no more.

But you and I need groceries.

Tomorrow I'll post about

bananas.

Thanks for visiting today!

Leave a comment even if it is just

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Doritos Fishing

Aloha

Welcome to Sunday Jump-Ups!

go ahead and click on the photos - you know you want to

Fishermen working for Frito-Lay go out at dawn.

 Here we see them returning to port with the huge Mother-Doritos

 that are processed into the snack you know.

 Each "mother" yields 12 dozen cases of Doritos.

Some are kept in huge tanks for research and breeding purposes.  A water show was attempted years ago,

 but these gentle giants don't put on much of a show - except when they are spawning!

 Sailors of old described their wonder at oceans churning with orange triangle babies under a full moon.

  Careful conservation

 keeps the breed from the endangered list. 

 Man could never produce such a tasty treat in a

 mere laboratory!

Rat Fink is quietly retired

in Waikiki. Here

The children of Diamond Head Elementary School

play `neith the emerald slopes of their school's

name sake.

Let's you and I sit by the pool awhile.

"Hold out your hands
And ask for health and happiness
For all those you have met and love
Letting the message be carried away
On a gentle prairie breeze."


"Out on the Prarie Blog"

here

I brought some GAU from Chinatown for us.

Happy New Year - Gung Hee Fat Choy

賡熙發財

Just gotta call about this deal first!

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Good Luck in the  

Year of the Golden Rabbit!

(Thursday)

What are you doing/thinking

        today?  cloudia

Deployment

Thanks for stopping by,

as we say 'ALOHA'

 to a hardy band

"A truly rich man
 is one whose children run into his arms
 when his hands are empty." 


Anonymous

"She sits composedly sentinel,  with paws tucked under her-"

Henry David Thoreau

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Gung Hee Fat Choy!

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祝你好运朋友！

Good Luck in the 
Year of the Golden Rabbit!


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Today they get into the canoes.

Over a thousand of them will be taken offshore.

They have been carefully hand-raised

 in a hatchery at Sand Island's Anuenue fisheries research station here on Oahu.

Now they have a job to do:

to restore the natural reef in Kaneohe Bay.

"aggressive seaweed"

 is a growing problem for the fragile reef ecosystem

 in the bay.

(Incidentally, that is the Kaneohe High School Mascot:

"The Aggressive Seaweeds."

Nah! Just kidding!)

“This is the first time we have been able to raise urchins

 in captivity; very few places in the world ever do this,”

 said Christy Martin with the Coordinating Group

 on Alien Species.

Urchins? 

March!

State aquatics resource scientist David Cohen

 and his colleagues collected adult specimens from the wild 


and used their sperm and eggs

 to propagate the microscopic creatures

with a lot of trial and error

 transferring the urchins from tank to tank as they grew.

Cohen calls them his babies,

 and they eat a lot.

“We give them as much variety as we can.

We use native seaweeds and we fatten them up

until they can get out on the reefs and do their jobs,”


 He says.

We needn't  worry about the area being overrun with urchins, though,

“We can actually herd these guys like cows and goats.

We keep them where we want them 
and if they migrate to 
another area,

 we pick them up and move them elsewhere,”
 Cohen said.

The urchin release later today will happen
 in water 2-6 feet deep.

 His "babies' are not very poky, Cohen says.

 "If you happen to step on them,

 you are more likely to hurt the urchin than to get hurt yourself."

Go With God, Little Eco-Warriors!

What's going on in YOUR place today?

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