Splendor of China

歡迎   Aloha

 Happy 11 1 11

 

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 Went to the Splendor of China trade show

& extravaganza on Saturday.

A bargain trip to the Middle Kingdom

at $3/door.

 

 

“ With money you are a dragon;

with no money, a worm ”

 

  Chinese Proverb

“ On with the dance! 

Let joy be unconfined ”

 

Lord Byron 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“To forget one's ancestor's                                  is to be a brook without a source,                            a tree without root ”

Chinese Proverb  Root & seed of Chinese culture: brush, ink, stone.

Bridge Child

" One joy 

scatters

      a hundred griefs. "

" An inch of time is an inch of gold

but you can't buy that inch of time

with an inch of gold. "

" Not until just before dawn

do people sleep best; 

not until people get old 

do they become wise. "

Chinese Proverbs

As we walked along,

I saw the Shanghai Calligrapher Zun Gui Li 

executing a stroke of the piece above. 

One didn't need factual knowledge of the art

to appreciate the grace,

flair, control & off-handedness

in his movements and results.

Thick, thin, light, dark 

the lines played out perfectly.

When he wrote in

the finer, smaller characters

I went wild (quietly).

  His assistant explained to me 

that such a piece

would sell in Shanghai for the equivalent

of $45 USD,

but that he wanted me to have it

for $20

as I was clearly so taken

with it's creation.

  Now that I live on shore, 

I can hang calligraphy!

  This photo

was taken in my apartment.

(I do want to get it framed)

  The artist expressed to me

through his intermediary

that it alludes to the fact that

"kind people live a long time."

Happy thought for you

and for me!

Thanks SO much for visiting today.

Your comment is a gift!

                                          Warmly, cloudia

Morning, Ladies

A L O H A !

What a magnificent day!

" Be faithful to that

which exists nowhere

but in yourself,
 and thus

make yourself

indispensable. "

Andre Gide

Life I love you!

" Her appearance is so interesting
it suggests that her appearance
is the least interesting thing
about her. "

Rebecca Mead

Morning, Ladies!

" We come to love 

not by seeing a perfect person,

but by learning to see

an imperfect person

perfectly. "

Sam Keen

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Thank you for visiting,

YOUr comment is welcome

                                                 Warmly, cloudia 

 Happy Halloween & Diwali

BOO!

 Trick or Treat

Totoro!

Autumn Reds Hawaii Edition

A L O H A !

Kindly click on the photos

 Our palms don't turn red in October. . . 

" I saw the lovely arch
Of rainbow span the sky,
The gold sun burning
As the rain swept by. "

  Elizabeth Coatsworth,
 November

Red Romantic

" An optimist is a person 

who sees a green light 

everywhere,

while a pessimist sees only 

the red stoplight... 

the truly wise person 

is colorblind.  "

Albert Schweitzer

Red Rectitude

" I sometimes wonder 

if two thirds of the globe 

is covered in red carpet.  "

Prince Charles

Red Roof

" When in doubt wear red. "

Bill Blass

Red Rescue

" Whenever you're sitting across

from some important person, 

always picture him

sitting there in a suit of long red underwear.

That's the way I always operated

in business.  "

Joseph P. Kennedy

 

 

 

 
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hope this wasn't

red-dundant!

YOUR visit makes my day

Thanks!

leave a comment of any color you wish

                                                    warmly, cloudia

To Live & Die in Hawaii

A L O H A ! 

Every person wants & needs
the same basic things, 

though each of us
does them in our own way;

But in Hawaii especially
 we live - and die - 
in our own unique culture. . . 

Hi Ho Oxygen Tanks AWAY!

In hospice care. 

"Riding Home"

" And when the day arrives 

I'll become the sky

and I'll become the sea

and the sea will come to kiss me

for I am going home. 

Nothing can stop me now.  "

Trent Reznor

 

A Day

A L O H A !

You gotta click on  these photos

You never know what the day holds.

Yesterday, I had so much fun on my scooter

that I was thinking of trying to share that pleasure

with you in a post.

When I went downstairs this morning,

Scooty wouldn't start.

Silly how out-of-sorts

such of things can make one.

But they sure do!

"Hey it could be worse,"

the kind Hawaiian security guard offered,

"you coulda had an accident."

I was nice to him (I hope)

but preoccupied and upset.

While I was walking on some errands near-by,

sirens came from every direction.

I was sure that it was an exercise for APEC:

the Convention Center is on that block.

But the sirens all converged

just ahead of me. 

You can't see her here,

but our magnificent Honolulu Fire Dept crew,

HPD, and the Paramedics

were ALL there for a downed bicyclist. 

All this urgent effort, society coming together,

to help ONE person. . . I don't know. . . 

it just really touched my heart.  

With everything

going on in the world, we still care about a 

stranger.

  Somehow, that makes me feel like we

can wise up, get together, 

and solve our problems.

Yes, we never know what a day holds. 

Today, or tomorrow, 

could be life-changing.

I just wanted to share these thoughts 

with You,

"Strangers."

Who have become friends!

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Thanks for visiting

            you comment is most welcome cloudia

Days End

A L O H A !

“ The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,

The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea,

The ploughman homeward plods his weary way,

And leaves the world to darkness and to me.”

 

 Thomas Gray 

 

" Wherever you go,

go with all your heart. "
 

Confucius

" A faithful friend is a strong defense;

And he that hath found him 

hath found a treasure.  "

Louisa May Alcott

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 In this life
it is well
to be on good terms
with melancholy-
But marry
contentment.


Enjoy the contentment on offer
in these Autumn days.

Thank YOU for sharing it here!
                                               Warmly, cloudia

Cleaning Homeless People from APEC route

 A L O H A !

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The New Colossus

 By Emma Lazarus, 1883

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles.

From her beacon-hand

Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" 

Cries she with silent lips.

"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

 Jewish-immigrant children wave at the Statue of Liberty.

Photo credit: U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum

 How's That Working Out?

Honolulu Star Bulletin

By Dan Nakaso

POSTED: 12:45 p.m. HST, Oct 25, 2011

" State prisoners and Department of Transportation landscaping crews are busy clearing homeless people and their belongings from 17 different areas along Nimitz Highway and the H-1 Freeway that will be seen by delegations attending next month's Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum.

The week-long clean-up is expected to cost $100,000, said DOT spokesman Dan Meisenzahl.

"We anticipate someone's going to ask us to do it again as we get closer to APEC," Meisenzahl said.

The clean-up crews include 50 DOT landscaping employees and 25 prisoners, Meisenzahl said.

They are primarily focusing on clearing homeless people and their belongings around bridges along the APEC travel routes, Meisenzahl said.

In August, the DOT spent $200,000 just to clear homeless people and their belongings from the H-1 Freeway viaduct near Honolulu Airport.

This week's anticipated $100,000 cost for the viaduct and 16 other locations is much cheaper "because most of them and their stuff is already gone," Meisenzahl said. "

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