Hawaii Dream Journey

 A  L  O  H  A !

 ^{"Before you can see} 

^{the rainbow,} 

 
^{you must first survive}

 ^{the storm. "}

 Kirsti A. Dyer

 Birds of Paradise

 “It is not only fine feathers

 that make fine birds.” 

Aesop

 "Today I have grown taller 

from walking with the trees. "

 Karl Baker

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Thanks for stopping by!

                    Warmly, cloudia

And now,

let's walk in the beauty:

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Hopes

A  L  O  H  A !

“ The best way

 to not feel hopeless

 is to get up and do something.

 Don’t wait for good things

 to happen to you. 

If you go out

 and make some good things happen, 

you will fill the world with hope, 

you will fill yourself

 with hope. ”

Barack Obama

 

“There is some good in this world,

 and it's worth fighting for.”
 

J.R.R. Tolkien,

“A baby 

is God's opinion 

that the world

 should go on.”
 

Carl Sandburg

“Hope is a waking dream.”
  

Aristotle

 “I don't think of all the misery, 

but of the beauty that still remains.”
 

Anne Frank,

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Your kind visit 

adds an

 irreplaceable element 

to my day:

 YOU!  

Thanks pal

                    Warmly, cloudia
 

Honolulu Murals

A   L   O   H   A  ! 

Let's look at a few
murals around Honolulu:

 click on the photos

This powerful chief is holding a

 Kahili

Such a tough looking octopus for an attendant !

Unfortunate Underling! 

" Kamehameha V (1830–1872), born as

 Lot Kapuāiwa, 

reigned as monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi 

 from 1863 to 1872.

 His motto was "Onipa`a": immovable, firm, steadfast or determined;

 he worked diligently for his people and kingdom and 

was described as the last great traditional chief.  

His full Hawaiian name prior to his succession was

 Lota Liholiho Kapuāiwa Kalanimakua Kalanikupuapaikalaninui Aliʻiolani Kalani-a-Kekūanaōʻa. "

Wikipedia

Angry & Powerful!

Entire Composition

Warriors emerge from the sea
in gourd helmets, 

brandishing spears

and a shark-tooth dagger

 in the foreground.

" Want a nice Hawaiian Punch? "

If I was a cartoon,

I'd run into the hills

of this mural.

And of course:

The Dragon misses

 NOTHING ! 

" You use a glass mirror

 to see your face; 

you use works of art 

to see your soul.  "

George Bernard Shaw 

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Thank YOU

for visiting 

the soul of our

Honolulu town

today!

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Losing YOUR Internet in July?

 A  L  O  H  A !

 " A prudent question

 is one-half of wisdom.  "

Francis Bacon

" Chance fights 

ever on the side 

of the prudent.  "

Euripides

 

 " - who is prudent

 and lies in wait 

for an enemy who is not, 

will be victorious.  "

Sun Tzu

" It is better to be

 high-spirited 

even though

 one makes more mistakes,

 than to be narrow-minded 

and all too prudent.  "

Vincent Van Gogh

 

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 " The FBI is warning

 that hundreds of thousands of computers

 could lose their Internet connections

 come July, 

unless they take steps

 to diagnose and disinfect their computers.

The problem is related to malware called DNSChanger 

that was first discovered way back in 2007 and that has infected millions of computers worldwide."

  Edward Moyer,

 CNET

You can check your machine NOW

by clicking on the links below.

 Check your machine - HERE

 Other Languages -  HERE

Learn more -

HERE

" Life has no blessing 

like a prudent friend. "

Euripides

This is essentially

a selfish post;

To lose YOU

would be

BAD!

So be safe.

Let's be kind,

Thank YOU

for visiting.

                                         Warmly, cloudia 

That's My Story

A  L  O  H  A ! 

"  If history were taught 

in the form of stories,

 it would never be forgotten.  "

Rudyard Kipling

 

 “The life of every man
is a diary
 in which he means to write
 one story,
and writes
another.”

 James Matthew Barrie

“Live your life
 from your heart.
Share from your heart.
And your story
will touch
 and heal
 people's souls.”

 Melody Beattie

“A drink
 precedes
 a story.”

 Irish Proverb

" Be amusing: 

never tell unkind stories; 

above all, 

never tell long ones. "

Benjamin Disraeli

" Some stories are true

 that never happened.  "

Elie Wiesel

“Everybody here 

thinks the whole story 

is about them..
Definitely 

that goes for everybody 

in the world.”

 Chuck Palahniuk

" One of the ways

to reincarnate

is to tell

your story. "

Spalding Gray

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All over the world, throughout history, 

storytelling

 has been one of the chief characteristics 

of our shared humanity. 

 The telling can involve  song, 

chant, musical instruments, 

epic poems recited from memory.  

Recitation & performance

of epics,

 the founding myths

 of a people, 

a culture

can last for days! 

From a single bard,

 to a Greek Chorus,

 to a theater troupe;

 From a prehistoric campfire,

 to Beijing Opera,

 the Broadway Stage, Hollywood,

 and yes, Blogger-

 We are the tellers of stories,

and telling them

is how we make sense

of our lives.

What young person today

has NOT lived Harry Potter,

and shared it's secret inclusion

with their generational cohort?

When I lost my job

[ and turned 50

the same week ]

I adjusted while watching

 NYPD Blue

every day on a cable network.

The redemption of Dennis Franz`

Detective Andy Sipowicz 

consumed me.  

All the themes,

all the flavor, 

all of the 'person' 

and 'place'

helped me process 

my own story

somehow.

The stories of Shakespeare

 live forever

because our hopes, fears,

 and character 

have not changed

since he revealed them to us.

Americans waited at the dock

in New York Winter

for the next installment

of Dickens 

by sail from London.

The Sopranos also captured my imagination

the way a beloved series of books does.

[ Like the Talera cycle 

 by Charles Gramlich ]

LINK

One amazing development has been

the technology to bring theater

into our home.

And now, we no longer need to watch

episodic TV every week;

No, through HULU, or HBOGO,

we can watch every chapter,

every season of our consuming Story

all at once!

Have you spent a weekend

watching every episode

of such a series as the Sopranos

or The Wire?

Would you admit it if you had?

LOL

Just asking. . .

Thanks for sharing,
leave a comment!

                   Warmly, cloudia

You can read about 
storytelling traditions here:

LINK

A  L  O  H  A !

"He was a blogger, 

which is to say,

 he died known only

 to strangers."

Robert Brault

" A book must be

 the ax

 for the frozen sea 

within us.  "

Franz Kafka

" By believing

 passionately in something

 that still does not exist,

 we create it.

 The nonexistent

 is whatever

 we have not

 sufficiently desired.  "

Franz Kafka

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Artists & artisans

are very particular 

about 

TOOLS.

Tools become worn

to our touch,

familiar

to our muscle memory.

Without them

we are but dreamers

without the means

to prove

our visions.

Blogger

is our tool;

A magical tool!

But if one night,

someone entered

Michelangelo's chapel

and replaced every

tool,

every pigment,

every brush,

every scaffold,

with DIFFERENT ones,

though they did

JUST the same,

well old Michael

would have known

how I felt

when I opened my

"workshop"

and Blogger had 

CHANGED

EVERYTHING.

Welcome to my first post.

Today I begin again.

Now WHERE

is that ''Preview" button?

 

Happy Hunting

my fellow Blogger-nistas.

It's gonna be

GREAT!

YOU been 'updated' yet?

        Warmly, cloudia