The Girls Squeal

Aloha!

It's a perfect day for a computer tip

and some guys dancing HULA!

"That's a one-size-fits-all

 gift to humanity:

refusing to take offense."

Carolyn Hax

"The need to be right

 is the sign of a vulgar mind." 

Albert Camus 

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Now for the browser tip:
 If your browser (Chrome, Mozilla/FireFox, etc) is not allowing you to comment, 

view, or do something,

just copy the web address by left clicking on it,

 right click to copy,

 then paste into another browser!

  You needn't close the browser you are using,

 and can return to it afterwards.

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And now for some men dancing Hula.
 Listen to the girls SQUEAL!

           Thanks for YOUr visit today! cloudia

Honolulu Weather

Aloha Wanderer!

You are Welcome Here :-)

                                          Click on the pic!

"If you want to build a ship,

don't drum up people to collect wood

and don't assign them tasks. . .

but rather teach them

to long for the endless

immensity of the

sea."

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"Forgiveness means

giving up all hope

for a better

past."

Lily Tomlin

"May the spirit of our ancestors

(Na ka `uhane a na kupuna)

keep us together,

(e ho`okupa ia kakou)

steadfast & unified always,

each with the other.

Watch over our children,

guide our sons & daughters,

hold close our elderly.

May the winds of Aloha,

truth & righteousness

be ever present in our hearts,

and minds,

and extend over the seas

to touch other shores.

Until we meet again

we remain loyal to our homeland

bound together by Aloha."

Edith Kanaka`ole

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It was a dark and stormy night-

wait, isn't night ALWAYS dark?

The wind was high

playing a symphony of squeak

and clatter

with the rigging

and anything not tied down.

Rain blew sideways,

as the front swept in from

Kauai and the west.

Churning, groaning, dancing,

the boat was an unquiet mare.

I lay awake inside her dark hold,

then checked all the places

where rain comes in-

but all was snug,

and sealed.

This morning,

trees were down,

a lane of the Pali Highway

was closed;

& the lights were out

at Castle Hospital.

A few schools were even closed!

(Hawaiian Snow Day?)

A visiting celebrity on the Morning TV Show,

here to promote something or other,

spoke of the tortured palm trees

dancing outside his hotel window.

Must be nice to have a window,

and watch the weather

through it-

- on this boat

we are not only part of the scenery,

but one with the 

wind, waves,

and weather.

As our Trade-winds fill back in

from the North East

all the slapping, clapping

waves

have decided to behave again.

The palms are grazing quietly.

And the boat is still as I write this.

It is my head that is swimming

with yesterday, today,

& tomorrow

(Better listen to Lily)

But it is Friday,

and there are blogs to visit,

groceries to buy.

Just another day in paradise,

Hooray!

Thanks for stopping by today.

Care to leave a comment? Please DO!

If you haven't scrolled down

all the way

to the image of my

little Hawaii novel's cover

and clicked on it

           please check it out. . . Your Friend, cloudia 

Waikiki Lazing

Aloha

        
          & Welcome to Hawaii!

Waikiki From Diamond Head

"Better keep yourself clean & bright;

You are the window

through which you must

see the world."

George Bernard Shaw

Queen's Surf

"You will find something more

in woods

than in books.

Trees and stones

will teach you

that which you can never

 learn from masters."

Saint Bernard

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Memories Linger in Waikiki

Waikiki c.1951

courtesy: John Lind Collection (HERE)

"The calm is on the water  and part of us would linger by the shore-"

Michael Lille  ><}}(°> Just remember: We cannot run -or fly- until we drop our crutches; No matter how necessary, helpful, or comforting they once were. Thanks for visiting! Please leave a comment-                                                                                                                                           cloudia

What's Goin` On?

A L O H A!

"Clearly, we're not in the middle of a normal recovery.

Wall Street may have it's casino up and running again,

but Main Street shows no signs of bouncing back anytime soon.

From foreclosures to unemployment

to household debt

to bankruptcies,

the American middle class is under assault - 

and America is in danger

of becoming a third World nation."

Arianna Huffington

"The working classes didn't bring this on.

It was the big boys 

that thought the financial drunk 

was going to last forever,

and over-bought,

over-merged,

and over-capitalized."

Will Rogers, 1931

"Wall Street paid 

an estimated $20.8 Billion in bonuses

 for 2010."

Thomas DiNapoli,

 New York State Comptroller

"Agnotology

is the study of ignorance

that is deliberately manufactured

or politically

or culturally generated.

. . .ignorance also comes

from people literally 

suppressing truth -

or drowning it out -

or trying to make it

 so confusing 

that people stop caring

about what's true

and what's not."

Robert Procter,

Historian of Science,

Stanford University

"They only call it

"class warfare"

when we fight

back."

Union Saying

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"The decisions made today...
will determine whether
the planet goes to hell
or goes to heaven. . . 
We are the transitional generation,
The critical choices
lie in our hands.
Future generations
will know who we were.
They will think of us often.
They will curse us,
or they will
bless us."


Marianne Williamson


So what do YOU think
about "what's going on?"


Let us know in comments.


And please check out my new link
to the coolest "Honolulu Hotels"
        on the sidebar under you Friends! cloudia

Honolulu Host

Aloha! 

Welcome Back To Waikiki!

"There is only one day left,

 always starting over:

 it is given to us at dawn

 and taken away from us at dusk."

Jean-Paul Sartre 

King Kalakaua

So when your amazing day in Honolulu is "dusking"
WHERE will YOU stay?



With a King?

Queen Kapiolani

In a
       
           Queen's Garden?

"I'm not one of those complicated, mixed-up cats. I'm not looking for the secret to life... I just go on from day to day, taking what comes. "

Frank Sinatra 

If Attention to Detail,

Nice People,

a Non-Corporate Hotel Experience,

and a choice of cool properties

(with a range of price/choices)

sounds like

"YOU"

You are invited to check out my friends at

AQUA Hotels & Resorts!

(see my first and only "Ad" link

 under you "Friends.")

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I have never pointed you to any commercial

sites or products

(other than my own little novel's Amazon page)

 before

because I value the MAGIC

you & I create together

more than the few dollars

ads would bring in.

But AQUA always seems to be there,

supporting worthy community stuff,

treating people right,

and I discovered that lots of my friends

have worked, do work, or know someone

who works at AQUA.

So Do come and Visit these islands of Aloha!

I would love to meet you,

perform your wedding

or civil union

(after 1 Jan 2012)

or a lovely, unique

 (re)commitment ceremony!

Thanks for your visit

 into the Comfort Spiral today :-) 

E Komo Mai!

You are ever welcome here-

            warmly, cloudia

So what do you think of this move I've made?

Have you stayed at an AQUA Resort or Hotel?

Leave us a comment!

Aristocracy

Aloha and Welcome to Waikiki !

“I have heard the mermaids singing,

 each to each.”

-- T. S. Eliot

Ringo: "Hey, would you believe

 me if I told you I was being followed

 by a yellow submarine?" 

Police Officer: "No, no, I would not."

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"Some keep the Sabbath going to Church,

I keep it staying at Home -

With a bobolink for a Chorister,

And an Orchard, for a Dome."

Emily Dickinson

"Flashback" 

"That's what education does:
it makes everything
personal."


Tommy Lee Jones,
'Professor,'
 The Sunset Limited

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A noble aristocracy

is open to every one of us

who will live richly,

thoughtfully,

and with kindness-

regardless of finances.

Thanks for being my noble visitor. . . 

and Friend!

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