The Nearest Happiness

 A  L  O  H  A ! 

" May your coming 

year be filled with magic 

and dreams 

and good madness. . . 

And I hope, somewhere 

in the next year, 

you surprise yourself. "

Neil Gaiman 

    " The greatest power 

that a person possesses

 is the power 

to choose "

 J. Martin Kohe

" You'll come to learn

 a great deal 

if you study the

 Insignificant 

in depth. "

Odysseus Elytis

" Only if you have been

 in the deepest valley, 

can you ever know 

how magnificent it is

 to be on 

the highest mountain. "

 Richard Nixon

" To be kind to all,

 to like many 

and love a few,

 to be needed and wanted 

by those we love,

 is certainly the nearest 

we can come 

to happiness. "

Mary Stuart 

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Will you hear my confession?

I confess that it 

DELIGHTS me

that the Holidays 

have passed!

Gosh I'm enjoying

the return of 

"Normal."

You?

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Men Dancing Strong Hula

New Year, New Laws

 A L O H A ! 

Father/Son Color & Clogs

 "I will honor Christmas

 in my heart, 

and try to keep it 

all the year."

Charles Dickens

The REST of the Picture (and family)

Click to see those New Year Day SMILES

 "Kindness,

 I've discovered,

 is everything

 in life. "

Isaac Bashevis Singer 

Married by me, Jan 1st 2014

"By the power vested in me
by the State of Hawaii
just last month,
I now pronounce you
spouses and wives
before these your friends
Legally
To your military command,
ALL of it
EVERYTHING!

(One is in the military,
the other is now a 
military spouse)



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As of Jan 1 2014

  Illinois police
cannot fly drones
without a warrant;
also becoming the 
13th state to prohibit 
handheld cellphones 
while driving.

Legal marijuana
is now for sale 
in Colorado.

Transgender children
may use the 
school bathroom
and play sports
in California.

Friendly, Humane
Francis is Pope
in Rome.

Connecticut has
tighter gun control,
and raises the 
minimum wage to $8.70 an hour,
New Jersey to $8.25
New York and Rhode Island to $8. 
Nine states automatically raise
their minimum wage because they 
index it to inflation. 


And I performed 
a wedding.

What is NEW
for YOU
this year?

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Thank YOU Friends

Our Friendship Means

The WORLD to me!

Fond ALOHA Wishes to You

From Your Hawaii Pals:

Kitty Pixie,

 Blog-Invisible Husband

& Me

The Ferko String Band - Alabama Jubilee (1955) (+playlist)

1959 Philadelphia Mummers String Bands

Ducklings of Nostalgia

A L O H A !
Definitive Version:

 DUCKLINGS!

" When Donald Duck

 traded his wings

 for arms, 

was he trading up

 or trading down? "

Douglas Coupland 

Here They Come

" Being born

 in a duck yard

 does not matter, 

if only you are

 hatched 

from a swan's egg. "

Hans Christian Andersen 

One Duckling - 

" A fellow with 

the inventiveness of

 Albert Einstein 

but with the attention span 

of Daffy Duck. "

Tom Shales 

Two Ducklings!

The Fearless Five

( I thought that the moment I saw them )

Bye Bye

" Four ducks on a pond,

 A grass-bank beyond, 

A blue sky of spring, 

White clouds on the wing; 

What a little thing 

To remember for years 

To remember with tears! "

William Allingham

=^..^=

Chestnuts roasting

on an open fire?

The smell of 

chalk

in a classroom?

What fills

YOU

with nostalgia?

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