Hawaii Local 5-O Insider

ALOHA Friend!

In a perfect place

it would rain at night while you sleep.

Since Waikiki enjoys the best weather on the planet,

that is just what happens!

Today we woke up to cloudy skies, rainbows,

diminishing rain, clean fragrances.

Soon amazing winter skies put on a puffy cloud show;

 It always makes me happy.

The Trade Winds are back too -

 so life feels perfect.

Rainy nights, some cloudy days, breezy,

blue skies, sunshine and WHITE clouds,

 daily highs in the mid 80s (F).

That's Winter in Hawaii.

Inhale Deeply!

“I saw a star, I reached for it, and I missed.  So I accepted the sky.”

Scott Fortini

Good Morning!

“When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back  and laugh at the sky.”

Buddha

My privilege to bring it to you.

Thanks for visiting!

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Last night's Hawaii 5-O episode

opened with a cameo by well regarded local waterman, Brian Keaulana, (more here)doing what he does best:

a big water rescue.

It was interesting to see characters talking da kine pidgin

(here) and it wasn't too cringe-inducing.


 A real dynamic:

how malihini Danno doesn't understand pidgin,
 but local boy Steve does.

Honest use of "Haole" as a sort of (sometimes fond) slur.
 It would be dishonest to portray us without any discrimination, but it is VERY different than what is normal on the "mainland"
 and in general we DO have a rainbow culture here.
 But causasian visitor, it never hurts to be sincere and humble (compared to how we act in New York)

and to overlook some post-colonial resentment.

It really all depends on how YOU act. 
Act as a guest, not a visiting white god
 and you should be OK.

It was cool to see a character studying the tidepools,
 but wasn't that Leeward Makaha masquerading as North Shore "Waimea Bay" (caption)
?

Yes!
 Pig hunting and off-road motorcycling are HUGE here!

KAPU means Set apart, Holy, Special, TABOO,
 so interesting to see the local "club" called "Da Kapu."

This is based on a real group of locals who make great friends and bad enemies. Yes, it was drugs for a while, now mostly surfing and related industries.

They have a different name that is known,
 but I ain't calling them out.

Respect! Defend Hawaii.
 Keep the Country Country!

Our tent cities are not full of employed yuppies.

Yes, housing is very hight, and many of our young do have to move mainland fo` work, but our beach tents are full of local Hawaiians and others,

many employed, but homeless and eking out a living on their own islands. That was real prettied-up.

Local kid, ukulele jamming Aidan La Pret (here)
got his moment singing and playing around the campfire.
Did you see/hear him? (we met him before here).


KAPU leader Kawika's (Kah-Vee-Kah)
tribal tattoos looked authentic Polynesian.


"We nevah do noting!" Loved that familiar (pidgin)
refrain from the tough guys once caught.
Rings true :) 




"Katonk" bike rental?"


 A shout out to our Japanese-American WWII veterans (the most decorated units EVER. See here). Katonk is the sound a mainland Japanese head makes when it hits the ground in a boot camp scuffle. The Hawaii guys had a pride and solidarity that mainland-born Japanese-American guys seemed to lack, they "acted haole" and didn't speak pidgin.  Stupid Katonks!


Very nice surfer funeral EXCEPT that all ages are usually represented at such an event!


 Widows, friends, elders, the Kahu (minister)
 travel in outrigger canoes.


Still a moving scene to end on;
 and that was local fave Butch Helemano (here)
(a Reggae/Island Music performer and Kahu
regarded as a Hawaiian cultural expert) presiding.
Good Chanting!


And ending the show with Bruddah Iz?


PERFECT as always!


Show is picked up for next season
and getting better week by week.




       Go Nuts!   cloudia

Weather

Aloha!

The Beach is Waiting. . . .

Come Relax a While

They say we all have halos,

auras,

 energetic emanations

that can even be photographed

 & measured.

We carry each our "cloud"

creating the weather

of our mutual society.

Some "skies" make you feel

great!

Some bring along a thunderhead

and everyone feels the pressure change.

Wonderful

cumulus castles

surround the emotionally successful.

Some families are living spectacles of beauty,

ever evolving sun-sets of love's splendor.

Crenelated creations of wisdom

hover above certain mature couples;

Which is not to say

a tiny lightning flash

doesn't lantern the flank

of their fortuitous formation

now and then.

What weather do you bring

before ever you open your mouth?

Glad you bring it here

as you wander the world wide web

        free as any floating cloud!   cloudia

My Team Loses

Aloha!

Thanks for visiting :)

“The less I behave like Whistler's mother  the night before,  the more I look like her  the morning after.”

Tallulah Bankhead

"Baseball is almost the only orderly thing

 in a very unorderly world.

 If you get three strikes,

 even the best lawyer in the world


 can't get you off."

Bill Veeck

"Especially in times of darkness,
that is the time to love,
That an act of love
might tip the balance."


Aeschylus

Funny,

I often call San Francisco:
 "My Hometown that I never lived in."

What a great, great city!


 Congratulations on beating my childhood Phillies
for the Pennant.

Thank you, Phillies
for an exciting pennant series and a great season!

That last out was the most exciting baseball possible.

And just remember:
 Baseball is a gentleman's game.

The visitors bat first.

(But then our team has the last crack at the ball,

 the last say :)

You don't hate the other team.

You save THAT for the World Series;

You hate that other, strange league!

And Texas?

I thought Gov Rick Perry was seceding. (Click HERE)

PPPPPPLEASE!!

The American League isn't even REAL, historic ball.

Not like we play it in the National League.
  Fact.


(I propagandize, you decide)

So:

Texas against The Bay?

Who do you think I'm rooting for?

GO LIBERAL-HOMOSEXUAL-TECHNO-ARTIST-HIPPIE-JAZZ

 CAPITOL CITY!

(There are nice folks in Texas like our blogger pal Travis;

Visit him here. 

But exception that proves the rule, know what I'm sayin`?)

     Have a wonderful, irreplaceable day! cloudia

Go Memories!

Yo!  er, that is, I mean:

 ALOHA !

Yeah, yeah...

Waikiki, Beach, Hawaii,

blah blah blah.

My mind is somewhere else-

Later today the

Philadelphia Phillies

will fight to remain

in the World Series Race.

The Phillies broadcasts

 were the soundtrack of my

Summers growing up:

By Sahm, Harry Kalas,

John  Facenda. . .

One day when I was little,

 Dad drove me into the city. . .

After paying some local kids to "watch" our car

we approached a big brick building that blended in

 with all the other brick

 in the city that Philadelphia was

 in the 50's.

My Dad told me that he went to

Mastbaum Technical High School right down the street.

I was a suburban kid,

 but he was teaching me that these were the streets

 we really came from. . .

courtesy (along with above): http://www.conniemackstadium.com/

I saw this on the website above

 and remembered walking past that wall. . .

http://www.baseballforum.com

I'll never forget the brilliant green of the field
after all that brick;

Right in the city!

I remember lots of cement and exposed girders.

 It reminded me of the subway

"The Philadelphia Phillies are the oldest continuous one-city, one-nickname franchise in sports, and no team enjoys as rich a history and as deep a connection with their fans. From their first game in 1883 through the team's back-to-back trips to the World Series in 2008 and 2009, the Phillies have earned a special place in baseball history and cultivated a passionate relationship with fans near and far."

From  THE OFFICIAL, DEFINITIVE HISTORY OF THE PHILLIES

Introduction by Mike Schmidt

Foreword by Christopher Guest

Dedicated to Harry Kalas

There's even a very pleasing Hawaii connection in the person of the athletic
 Shane "The Flyin` Hawaiian" Victorino.
He always seems to be in the thick of it!

So this afternoon (here in Hawaiian Standard Time) 

I will be spending time with FOX Sports,

 and my ghosts:

 Dad, Granddad, Jimmy,

 and the kid I was growing up in Philly.

Hope you make some lifetime memories this weekend,

 no matter how tiny.

 They might just loom large in later times. . .

You may sometime long to recapture the treasures

that seem so plentiful today.

     Warmly, cloudia

And GO PHILLIES!

Status Talisman. . .

Or Stratus Talisman?

ALOHA!

Beauty in all it's forms

heals me.

"Those disabled from work - the aged,

 and invalids -

 have a well-grounded claim

 to care from the state."

Otto von Bismarck, 1881,

 proposing a social insurance program.

"An onion can make people cry,

 but there has never been a vegetable invented

 to make them laugh." 

Will Rogers

"Clothes make the man.

 Naked people have little or no influence on society."

Mark Twain

"The pine stays green in winter...

 wisdom in hardship." 

Norman Douglas 

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We are designed to look for faces

and patterns in behavior.

We interpret the actions of others

without even realizing it.

What we "see"

seems as self evident

as sports teams do

when they are winning.

But leads can be lost;

Momentum is always shifting.

Don't remain moored

to past patterns, habits,

automatic responses.

Cleanse your windows of perception.

Invite a few "what ifs"

to the party.

Get 

tipsy

with the real possibilities

that a shift in attitude

can begin.

O Lord

grant me the wisdom

to discern between

whole, healthy habits,

and stultifying routines -

Help me to be more able

to swim in the cataract of abundance

that surrounds me.

Amen

Bonus Tip:

We assume that our friends

or partners

are making a decision,

or sending a message,

when they are simply on auto-pilot

(as we are).

Remembering that they

are as lost & searching

as yourself

Allows compassion

to blanket and quench

the hot coals of hurt

in cool,

sparkling,

joyous

purity.

      Warmly, cloudia