A L O H A !

"Summer is the time

 when one sheds one's tensions

 with one's clothes,

 and the right kind of day

 is jeweled balm for the battered spirit.

 A few of those days

 and you can become drunk with the belief

 that all's right with the world."

Ada Louise Huxtable

" kisses are a better fate

than wisdom. "

e.e. cummings

" Oh!

 I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth

And danced the skies

 on laughter-silvered wings "

John Gillespie Magee, Jr.

"In every outthrust headland, 
in every curving beach,
 in every grain of sand
 there is the story of the earth"

--Rachel Carson

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I can bless you

without a glance,

passing on the street

or the web

just like a curse

in reverse.

Energy is neither

created

nor destroyed;

We always pass it on

adding our own scent.

No intention

misses it's mark.

Bless YOU

&

Pass it on-

       warmly, cloudia

Fri- D A Y !

Aloha Friend!

" 'Alo' means the bosom,

the center of the universe.

'Ha' is the breath of GOD.

The word ALOHA

is imbued with a great deal of power.

I do not use the word casually.

Aloha is a feeling,

a recognition of the Divine.

It is no just a word

or greeting.

When you say 'Aloha' to someone

you are conveying or bestowing

this feeling.

In the Hawaii of my childhood,

this feeling bonded the entire community."

Nana Veary

Hawaiian Sky

A L O H A !

" The need to be right

 is the sign of a vulgar mind.  "

Albert Camus 

" The function of the imagination

 is not to make strange things settled

but to make settled things strange. "

G.K. Chesterton

When you are strong enough
 to love yourself 100%,

 good and bad - 

you will be amazed at the opportunities

 that life presents you.”

 Stacey Charter

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Jagged clouds

 fanciful paper lanterns

passing before a July full moon:

Moon Bows

gild mother of pearl.

Proud Puppy

Aloha 

 Thank YOU For Visiting Virtual Waikiki

" I'm the BEST! "

" The purpose of life

 is a life of purpose. "

Robert Byrne

" It's all in the teeth, heh heh. "

" There is only one success –

to be able to spend your life

 in your own way. "

 Christopher Morley

" A Good Shake - DELIGHT! "

“A soldier will fight long and hard
 for a bit of colored ribbon.”

Napoleon Bonaparte

" Life is GOOD! "

" Life is what we make it,

always has been,

 always will be. "

Grandma Moses

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Each of YOU who visits here

really means a lot to me. 

sometimes it blows my mind,

 but the blogging community has taught me,

 nurtured me.

We share grief and joy -

Yours & mine. 

 We truly are friends in the best sense of that word;

 and we return to "real life" loved ones and communities

 enriched, empowered and with a larger vision.

 Thank YOU for showing me the world beyond my island!

Blogger Incite

A L O H A!

Thanks For Visiting Virtual Waikiki

My Castle

" A man's home may seem to be his castle
 on the outside;
inside is more often his nursery. "

Clare Boothe Luce

My Rainbow (on the right)



" Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life.
The evening beam that smiles the clouds away,
 and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray. "

Lord Byron 

My Blog


" It is a sign that your reputation is small
 and sinking
 if your own tongue must praise you. "

Matthew Hale 




Blogger
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Swimming Backwards


*Sigh*

BLOGGER is still publishing my posts (thanks!)
but
is not updating
in links & readers.

Is this an excuse for a looser,
Summer attitude
to blogging?

Or should I spend hours
trying to contact BLOGGER
?


*Sigh*

Well, at least I can still visit

Y O U

( ! )

There ARE other blogging platforms,
but I'm such a GOOGLE Fan-
The fact that I am thinking of migrating
speaks volumes.


Get it together GOOGLE!


Hello?  



*Sigh*


        Thank YOU for visiting!  cloudia

" Everyone has his day,
and some days
last longer than others. "
Winston Churchill

BLOGGER!!!!!!

ALOHA & Thank YOU for Visiting!

"There seems to be some perverse human characteristic

 that likes to make easy things difficult,"

Warren Buffet

“The more you lose yourself  in something bigger than yourself,  the more energy you will have.”

Norman Vincent Peale

" I thank you God for this most amazing day,

 for the leaping greenly spirits of trees,

 and for the blue dream of sky

 and for everything which is natural,

 which is infinite, which is yes. "

e.e. cummings

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Blogger!

Why are you NOT

updating my new posts

in reader

and in links

on others' blogs?!

WHY?!

GRRRRRRR!

Don't forget me, Friends!

*Sigh*

      Fondly, cloudia

Hawiian Rights

A L O H A !

" Tis always morning somewhere in the world. "

Richard Henry Horne

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Wednesday,  at Washington Place,

  the home of Hawaii's last Queen,

 Queen Liliuokalani,

Our Gov. Neil Abercrombie  signed a bill into law recognizing Native Hawaiians as the only "indigenous, aboriginal, maoli people of Hawaii."

Queen Liliuokalani & Robert Louis Stevenson

 This is considered the first step in a process for
 Native Hawaiians to form their own government.

Native Hawaiians are the only remaining indigenous group in the United States who haven't been allowed to establish their own government.

  This is ironic, as Hawaii was an internationally recognized nation under Native Hawaiian Monarchs throughout the 19th Century.

Next comes a five-member commission responsible for creating a roll of qualified Native Hawaiians who wish to participate in the new entity.

Not all Hawaiians are in favor of this:

"This is an affront to those of us

 whose nation was stolen."

Pilipo Souza

Protesters outside of the signing ceremony

 issued a statement saying in part:

" This bill continues to violate the sovereignty of the Hawaiian Kingdom, a constitutional, independent nation. . . this is not the proper remedy for the theft of a nation. . . a diabolical plan to help the United States to avoid lawful return to Hawaii of the Hawaiian Kingdom. " 

Some continue the  pursuit of remedies 

at the UN and international courts. 

Poka Lanui

Nevertheless, 

this seems to be a minority opinion

 even among Native Hawaiians.

Former Hawaii Governor John D. Waihee III 

(Himself a Native Hawaiian)

who was 

present at the signing said:

" I feel very good about it obviously. The main reason is

 that it lays a foundation for the Native Hawaiian

 community  to take another step forward. "

 “A‘ohe hana nui ka alu‘ia.”

'No task is too big when done together. '

  Thank YOU for visiting!

         Please leave YOUR comment, cloudia