Mad Naked Whitman

A  L  O  H  A !

"Don’t just be yourself.

 Be all of your selves."

 Joss Whedon

" Press close,

 bare-bosomed Night! 

Press close,

 magnetic,

nourishing Night!

Night of south winds!  

Night of the large, few stars!

Still, nodding Night!  

Mad, naked, Summer Night! "

Walt Whitman

Great! 

How am I supposed to follow 

THAT?!

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Hawaiian Sky Dragon Details

A  L  O  H  A !

Photos all Click-able

 Pinky Puffys

" I can be jubilant one moment 
and pensive the next,
 and a cloud could go by 
and make that happen. "

Bob Dylan
on the power of clouds

 Glowing-Joe the Camel

" A camel 

makes an elephant 

feel like a jet plane. "

Jackie Kennedy 

 Chinese Emperor's Throne Room Screen:

" Dragons and Phoenix "

" Better a living beggar 

than a buried emperor. "

Jean de La Fontaine 

Two Dragons - Detail 

"If the sky could dream,

 it would dream of dragons."

Ilona Andrews 

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Today

the Sky

can speak

for me!

It's saying:

How glad we are

to see you!

Thanks, Flyers

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Frog Parking

- ALL Others Will Be Toad!

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Best Kitchen Tool

A  L  O  H  A !

" I walk without flinching

 through the burning cathedral

 of the summer.  

My bank of wild grass

 is majestic 

and full of music.  

It is a fire that solitude 

presses against my lips. "

Violette Leduc

 

" When from our better selves

 we have too long been parted

 by the hurrying world, 

and droop - 

Sick of its business, 

of its pleasures tired, 

how gracious, how benign 

is solitude. "    

 William Wordsworth

" Hey!

 It's summer!

 Be free and happy

 and danceful

 and uninhibited

 and now-y! "

Terri Guillemets

" Oh, the summer night

Has a smile of light

And she sits 

on a sapphire throne. "

Barry Cornwall

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There is one kitchen tool

I reach for again

and again:

The Humble Strap Wrench.

Gripping that jar,

twisting the cemented lid off,

showing it who's boss!

Give me a strap wrench

and a place to stand. . .

Well, you get the idea.

Why,

you might even use it

to change the oil filter 

on your car,

Imagine!

See one very like mine:

Link

Lovely to See You Again, 

My Friend!  

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One Day Winter

A  L  O  H  A !

" We are all travelers 

in the wilderness 

of this world, 

and the best we can find 

in our travels 

is an honest friend. "

Robert Louis Stevenson 

" Quiet minds 

cannot be perplexed 

or frightened 

but go on in fortune 

or misfortune 

at their own private pace,

like a clock 

during a thunderstorm. "

Robert Louis Stevenson 

                    

                        

" Old and young, 

we are all 

on our last cruise. "

Robert Louis Stevenson 

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Tropical Storm Flossie

poured rain on the Big Island,

high winds, rain,

lightning and thunder

on Maui.

Here on Oahu

we had a rainy, humid,

threatening day

followed by a rainy

Night. But

today was sunny,

like waking up from

a nightmare,

or Winter for a day.

Hooray!

May your day shine

and pleasure

be thine.

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Flossie Not Bossie

A  L  O  H  A !

" The inner spaces

 that a good story

 lets us enter -

- are the old apartments 

of religion. "

John Updike

Kimono Ladies in Waikiki

" Be not the first

 by whom the new

 are tried, 

Nor yet the last

 to lay the old 

aside. "

Alexander Pope 

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