Vintage Car Memories

A  L  O   H   A  !

The other day, 

my normal Waikiki routine

 turned into

British Motoring

 Festival Day!

This beauty at the Post Office 

screamed

"LOTUS!"

[ and whispered:

'Get IN' ]

It was stirring a memory. . . 

laying practically on my back

like watching TV in bed. . . .

oh yes!

Dad's yellow Jaguar-

Photo courtesy Harmon Motors

Seems to me, I only rode in it once.
[I was on my own by then.]

But that ride was memorable.

One thing I DO remember:

It was finicky about starting

in the rain.

A Ford Transit

 sat nearby

Nice size

 for a business on an

 island.

the Transit is Not TOO big, like some

vehicles I could mention. . .

 HEY! A few blocks away:

Another British motoring icon!

But I couldn't get that small van 

out of my mind;

It was evoking

 something,

something from childhood.

But what?

GOT IT !

Going to work for the day

with Dad in his

"English Ford."

This was before 'compact cars'

when the Volkswagen 

was still new

-and strange-

to those accustomed to 

BIG American Cars !

Funny

how EVERYTHING

can bring you back around

to something you

keep remembering

anyway.


Often when driving
I remember one of the things
he said near the end:

"I just wish I could 
drive my car."

Remembering that
brings joy
back to driving,
and dissolves
traffic blues.

Miss ya Dad

& Thanks to YOU, my friend
for looking in

                              Warmly, cloudia

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Shell Ginger

A   L   O   H   A  !

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Shell Ginger

 "Kindly words,

 sympathizing attentions,

 watchfulness against

 wounding . . .
these cost very little, 

but they are priceless 

in their value." 

 F. W. Robertson

 " Life is mostly froth and bubble,
but two things stand like stone,
kindness in another's trouble
and courage in your own. "

Princess Diana

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Warmly, cloudia

Now Here Right

A   L   O   H   A  !

Today you are experiencing this

Golden NOW

 Today you have

 the gut wisdom

 of the GIFT:

 Your body,

 Your daily victory!

 Focus on your healing

wanna know a secret?

That REALLY means:

rediscovering the child,

the forgotten,
 self-centered

Y O U

inside;

Give her

parties!

 You MUST click on this one:

 Party

until further

directions

from Upstairs,

which are ALWAYS

communicated 

to you

through the desires

 and loves

of your heart.

Ice Cream!           Sunshine! 

 Kindness!

 Friends! Mountains!

You & Me-

and all our 

Caring Circle.

Dare to celebrate!

& leave more of your 

cool comments, OK?

                 Fondly, cloudia

Cruel to be Cool

A   L   O   H   A  !

Flying Dragon

(facing left)

" If anything,

there's a sort of stigma

around doing good deeds

that's maybe not so cool.

I'm doing everything I can. . .

to figure out a way

we can make it cool,

or normal

to be kind

and loving. "

Lady Gaga

" I never forget a face,

 but in your case

 I'll be glad to make

 an exception. "

Groucho Marx

" The one who gives little

 with a smile
gives more than the one

 who gives much
with a frown. "

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 the "Cool" Blog!

Jump into 'Comments'

and tell us something

"Groovy"

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M O N E Y !

" No, I wouldn't touch a leper

 for a thousand pounds; 

yet I willingly cure him

 for the love of God.  "

                                                                                               Mother Teresa

Music

A  L  O  H  A  !

Kindly Klick on the Kontent

" If there is anything 

that we wish to change in the child, 

we should first examine it

 and see whether it is not something 

 that could better be changed 

in ourselves.  "

Carl Jung

 

" Think first 

about the foundations of humility. 

The higher 

your structure is to be,

 the deeper must be its

 foundation.  "

Saint Augustine

" Fugitive slaves were rare then,

 and as a fugitive slave lecturer,

 I had the advantage

 of being the first one out.  "

                                       Frederick Douglass

“When I hear music,

 I fear no danger. 

I am invulnerable. 

I see no foe.

 I am related to the earliest times,

 and to the latest.”

 

 Henry David Thoreau 

 

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Music & Nostalgia

are sisters.

Music helps to make

and to mark

a certain moment

in Our Time.

Everyone

can love the Beatles

but only a lucky few

get to hear them

as a fresh new sound

at just the right

age !

Watching the old kinescope

even the Stones

seem sedate.

That "Damned Jungle Music"

was actually quite

musical.

Hard to remember,

to realize,

just how New

it all 

once sounded. 

Do YOU remember?

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Thank YOU

for visiting.

                           Warmly, cloudia

Expert Predictions!

A   L   O   H   A  !

That's ME!

“X-rays will prove to be a hoax.”

Lord Kelvin, 

British physicist 1899

“Printed books 

will never be the equivalent 

of handwritten codices,

 especially since printed books

 are often deficient in spelling

 and appearance.”

Johannes Trithemius,

 German abbot and scholar

 “In Praise of Scribes”

 1492

" ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes

 and weighs 30 tons,

computers in the future

may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes

and weigh only 1.5 tons.”

Popular Mechanics

 1949

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What do the experts know?

My laptop

weighs in at only

One Ton

and uses only 

Three Vacuum Tubes!

These days,

I seem to be learning

all the things

that I have been

wrong

about.

Once past the 

embarrassment

it's actually been

liberating.

What have 

Y O U

been wrong about?

Thanks for visiting today

                         Warmly, cloudia