Stars Come and Go

Aloha, Friends!
Welcome to Tuesday
in
Waikiki


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"Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits
are objects of scorn to smart Americans
who blow horns to break up traffic jams."
Mary Ellen Kelly

Your Dream is Calling!



"Normal is not something to aspire to,
it's something to get away from."
Jodie Foster

The Black Pearl, Johnny Depp's pirate ship, has been spotted in Oahu waters!





"Happiness is an Open mind.
Beware of your stereotypes and prejudices,
they can trap you in a box and make you miss what life has to offer you."

Med Yones

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There is a special pride that comes with living on a small island in the middle of the world's biggest ocean.


We are proud to be indigenous people of this land,
this `Aina.

And/or we are proud to be born here,
like my niece.

Some of us are proud that we braved more than
oceans to make a new life here.

We are proud of our Ohana
who are born and raised here
when they do great things
in the world out there,
like Dwayne Johnson,
"The Rock"
and our president Obama
who was born, grew up,
and went to school
a couple of miles from here;
He walked the same streets
that I do.
He understands things
that only we island people
know.
Like: we need to live together,
there is no place far away
for us to go
and get away from each other.

For six seasons
LOST
has been "our" show.
Filmed down the block,
by Hubby's workplace,
using our locations
as The Island, as LA,
as Australia.

It's been fun to see them
transform
my harbor,
Chinatown,
Waipahu,
or our corner pub.
And then to see them on
TV.


Seeing Hurley
(Jorge Garcia)
at Whole Foods was fun.
We always act cool,
we ARE Island cool.
Lots of stars
can walk around here
and be left alone,
not just Ann Margaret
who is here all the time.
(No one even recognizes her anymore
though we all love her work.
Don't you?)

The LOST actors
have become
part of the local scene.


Well now LOST will be leaving,
but one cast member may remain.


With our growing Korean
community
(Koreans first came to Hawaii over 100
years ago, and are an important part of
our "Local" culture.
To learn more,
read Alan Brennert's excellent
novel: Honolulu)

Many Korean people continue to immigrate here,
and Korean Soap Operas are HUGE on local TV;
Not to mention all our wonderful Korean restaurants, great and tiny!

And yes,
I do like Kim Chee!

So we are all thrilled
that popular Daniel Dae Kim
(who is partners in a restaurant here)
has been tapped to play
Chin Ho Kelly
(Originated by Kam Fong Chun)
on the new
Hawaii Five-0 pilot!

What's next,
Magnum P.I?

Actually, no.
Next up is the immensely successful
Pirates of the Caribbean
film franchise starring
Johnny Depp!
(Be still my heart).

Keep those film projects coming:

Book`em Danno!


ALOHA from Hollywood West,
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Scry Me to the Moon

It's

Aloha Monday

Here in

W A I K I K I

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"Your friend will argue with you."

Solzhenitsyn

"There are no rules of architecture

for a castle in the clouds."

G. K. Chesterton

Scry me to the moon

"The real object of education

is to have one in the condition

of continually asking questions."

Bishop Creighton

"Crystal sincerity hath found no shelter but in a fool's cap."

Gerard Manley Hopkins

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I am the scryer of surf breaks

who reads the entrails of this land,

this`aina.

Lines of hieroglyphic clouds,

and the sounds of Chinatown's

close city streets,

human languages, and trade winds,

all speak to me

in shadings and gradations

of truth.

An "enemy" dead

is revealed a friend

and co-creator;

thus I gratefully battle

my interlocutors with chivalry.

For, after all,

they serve their vision of the good

too.

And if they've taken

the hypocrisy oath

for power, security, or money only

they'll face a harsher Critic

than myself,

empowered to punish

and purify.

I read the entrails of this life:

"All Good."

ALOHA, Friend! cloudia

Gung Hee Fat Choy

Happy Year of the

T I G E R!

Welcome Golden Tiger!
Let's ride the Tiger this year everybody!
GRRRRR!

Lions are making their visits, blessing the town.

Children of all ages are full of happiness.

In fact, they participate in ways
that make the festival-time even more special
for everyone.

Strange creatures are lurking in poorly lit places.


Best wishes to

Y O U!

Thank you for your
visits,
your friendship,
your blog posts. . .
All year long!


ALOHA, clouda

Spiral Saturday

Aloha, Friend!

It's

Saturday

in

W A I K I K I

please click on the photos for soul expansion

"Thinking of you makes my life complete.

You're my golden clouds; you're my smile."

Unknown

"It is fun to be in the same decade as you."

Franklin D. Roosevelt (to Churchill)

"What does reason demand of a man?

A very easy thing--to live in accord with his nature."

Seneca

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"WHERE

Where the tree line

breaks at the headlands,

where the plowed soul

meets the unbroken spirit

we build the fires of life

within a ring of stone to warm us."

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Above is the opening stanza of a poem

by my friend, the Detroit poet, Mark Durfee.

The specific gravity, the sound, and the meaning in those words

are like the work of a master Stone-cutter,

and they please me very much.

You can read the rest of the poem by visiting the poet's blog HERE.

ALOHA! cloudia

Snow Memories

Aloha, Friend!

It's

Friday

in

W A I K I K I

click on the memories

Living here in Waikiki means lots of sun in February

"I have never seen snow

and do not know what winter means. "

Duke Kahanamoku

But when there is a major winter storm,

my thoughts return to my east coast childhood.

"Genius is an African who dreams up snow."

Nabokov

Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood. "

Andy Goldsworthy

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The day after big snow

in a great city

is a festival!

Sunny skies

like salvation show

a blinding white,

a crisp blue vast,

of

sky

with celebratory clouds.

Yesterday

there was no horizon

just a suspension of silver confetti flakes.

Today the sky's reopened.

Rivulets of melted snow,

and the squeals of children

in the

awe-hushed town,

promise Spring.

ALOHA, Snow Bunnies! cloudia

Let's Flock

ALOHA, FRIENDS!


Welcome
to
W a i k i k i

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Driving under Hawaii winter skies


“There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky;
there is one spectacle grander than the sky,
that is the interior of the soul”

Victor Hugo

Santa is wintering in Hawaii!


Did you ever wonder why the tool is called a "monkey wrench?"
It was invented by Charles Moncky

The word "toy" comes from the Olde English for "tool."

Is a blog a tool or a toy?

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The Pew Internet & American Life Project
estimates that one in ten on-line adults has a blog;
That's 30 million blogging adults.

Glad we found each other!

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My blog is a kite
I send up every day.
Your daily dose of Hawaii
Through my eyes.

Some blogs are fighting kites
Cutting the strings
Of their opponents'
Arguments.

But Comfort Spiral
is a message in a bottle:
"Like minded people
Come out and play."

And like miracles
Or migrating butterflies
You come to display your colors!

The Sky is full of kites
Each one is different
Yes,
Another wondrous day . . .

A L O H A, cloudia

Cloudy Thinking

Aloha, Friend!

Welcome

to

Waikiki

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Did you know that the first person to fly solo from Hawaii

to the continent (in 1935) was Amelia Earhart?

"It is very simple to be happy,

but it is very difficult to be simple."

Rabindranath Tagore

"Time might be a great healer- but it's a lousy beautician."

CoCo

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"Clouds are such simple things,

nothing more than colloidal suspensions

of water droplets or ice crystals in air,

but they are the key to life outside the oceans.

Without clouds there is no rain,

and without rain

there is only arid land

where nothing lives."

Richard Brill

ALOHA, cloudia