Walk in Ala Moana Park

ALOHA !

Go ahead and click on the photos

Slow Down! This isn't the 'mainland.'

Let's walk in Ala Moana Park

before her parking lots are closed

and become staging areas

for APEC security. . .

Nature is so nurturing, welcoming . . .

SAY! is that tree SNEERING at us?

He's a mean drunk!

" Bacchus, n.: A convenient (nature) deity

invented by the ancients

as an excuse for getting drunk. "

 
Ambrose Bierce

 

 " Bacchus hath drowned more men

than Neptune (god of the seas)."

Thomas Fuller

And speaking of seas,

Ala Moana is a beach park.

Outrigger Canoes at Rest

 

Pupukahi i holomua

" Unite to move forward."

 

Each Hawaiian in the canoe

has to pull together on the call

for the canoe to move forward,

quickly forward.

 

 Each canoe has a soul that is awakened

and reawakened

with blessings.

Anyone who talks to their vehicle

 should understand this!

 They all have given names as well

I ka 'olelo no ke ola, i ka 'olelo no ka make.

  " In speech is life, in speech is death."

 

" Imua means “go forward” in Hawaiian.

Most often said with an  exclamation point:

 IMUA !

Red Rovers

These are not Hawaiian Outrigger Canoes.  What?

Ah! Here he is with his head ON.  (At Splendor of China)

" As soon as you trust yourself, 

you will know how to live. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,

Faust

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Isn't it wonderful

just to walk

aimlessly

in the park

together

like this?

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                                                     Warmly, cloudia

    

Round the Rainbow Way

A L O H A !

click, CLICK I say on these rainbows

It seems we have rainbows every morning.

Here's the ever popular "double."

" The sun, the earth,

love, friends, 

our very breath

are parts of the banquet. "

Rebecca H. Davis

This one touched ground right beneath my lanai (balcony)

"... and it's that if I ever go looking

for my heart's desire again,

I won't look any further 

than my own backyard;

because if it isn't there,

I never really lost it to begin with. "

Dorothy, 

Wizard of OZ

Look!

" Walk on a rainbow trail; 

walk on a trail of song, 

and all about you will be beauty.

 There is a way out of every dark mist, 

over a rainbow trail. "

 

Andra Davis

the whole circle!

" Somewhere, over the rainbow, 

skies are blue,
And the dreams that you dare to dream 

really do come true. "

E.y Harburg

Over The Rainbow

 

can we really see BOTH ends?!

"When one is willing
and able

the gods join in."

Aeschylus

Yes! See it reaching down into the intersection?

" Toto, 

I've a feeling 

we're not in Kansas anymore. 

We must be

over the rainbow! "

 

Dorothy

 

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Hawaii is the land of rainbows.

We even have

MoonBows.

And, as I say,

we have friendly rainbows

on the mountain side

just about every morning .

But I have

N E V E R

seen the 

Whole Circle of the Rainbow

before

!

You know. . . 

Seems like
I have always lived
in the future.

That is, I have seen 

difficulties ahead,

when conventional wisdom

didn't.

I won't bore you

with a list of world affairs

over which I have been

vilified,

and then proven

right,

by events, results,
history.

Long have I been worried

about rising inequality

here in America.


Let's call it
the Problem of Greed.

Finally,
conventional wisdom

is noticing this root

of our many world problems.

As usual,

I find myself seeing

ahead;

And what I am seeing
at long last

looks positive.

Enough people changed minds

and the Berlin Wall came down
without a shot.

The Next Big Thing

will be revolution

in how we treat

each other-

ALL over the 

world.

Elites

are

over.

And 

they

know it.

That's why they are looting

public wealth

on their way

out

the 

door

of history.

I've been right before.

We will 
overcome greed

and politics

with smart 

love.

You might call it 

Aloha.

Perhaps we see the rainbow's end

 with it's legendary treasure
at last.

And not only that 

we discover that
the rainbow is not just

"up  there"
in the sky.


No, 

The rainbow is a 
trail,

a full circle
that

we could not know

or see

before.

The rainbow of fulfillment

begins to form around us
even now.

The 
Rainbow of True Wealth

IS

Us

!

" When the Earth is sick,

the animals will begin to disappear, 

when that happens, 

The Warriors of the Rainbow

will come to save them. "

Chief Seattle

Thanks for bringing YOUr colors

here to share.

                                                                    Warmly, cloudia 

My Day in the Sun

A L O H A !

Self portrait / Scooter Reflection

Late

Early

Momentary Contemplation:

Enjoy Today

And then the light changed. . .

Fish

Wish

Drink

Dream

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Out of steam-

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                                              warmly, cloudia

WWII Veterans from Hawaii Awarded

Aloha SALUTE!

Today, proud, elderly, Japanese-American veterans

of World War II,

including 60 honorees from our Hawaii

finally
received
their Congressional Gold Medal.

  More than 400 Nisei veterans took part

  in Congressional Gold Medal events.

Today's ceremony took place

in Emancipation Hall

at  the U.S. Capitol.

The medal was awarded collectively

to the 100th Infantry Battalion,

click on the photos to be awed

the 442nd Regimental Combat Team

and the Military Intelligence Service.

They  served this country with much-noted heroism despite the fact that some had parents and siblings confined to internment camps at a time when Japanese Americans faced distrust unmatched by anything directed towards German Americans.

Jack Nakamura, 88,

who was wounded twice

told a reporter last week: 

"That's one reason why I joined, volunteered, too.

They were calling me 'Jap' and stuff like that.

My mother said, 'No, don't join up.'

But I joined up anyway," recalled Nakamura,

a 100th Infantry Battalion veteran.

"After all that we went through and all that,

and to be recognized for what we did 

and all that, I'm grateful to the government

for awarding us this medal,"

said Takashi Shirakata,

a 442nd Regimental Combat Team veteran.

When these veterans arrived in Washington, D.C. this past Monday morning they received a special honor at the airport as their plane was saluted with jets of water from airport firefighters. 

The medal itself will be archived at the 

Smithsonian Institution.

Each Hawaii veteran will receive their own as well.

Many of these aging heroes aren't able to attend the Washington events, so a celebration is being planned

for them here in Waikiki in December.

 I walk past this memorial on my way

to my Waikiki Post Office

If we 

would put country and family

ahead of self

as these men did,

many losing their lives,

their companions,

then America

would be

America

again.

Amen.

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                                                 warmly, cloudia

Splendor of China

歡迎   Aloha

 Happy 11 1 11

 

Click on the pictures / 点击图片

 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.

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                                          Warmly, cloudia