Hawaii Flowers

A  L  O  H  A !

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" A thankful heart

 is not only

 the greatest virtue,
but the parent 

of all other

 virtues. "

Cicero

" I have just three things to teach:
simplicity, patience,

 compassion.
These three

 are your greatest

 treasures. "

 Lao Tzu

" One of the most

 attractive things

 about the flowers
 is their beautiful

 reserve. "

 Henry David Thoreau

" For a writer,

 published works are like

 fallen flowers,

 but the expected new work

 is like a calyx 

waiting to blossom.  "

Cao Yu

 

" I believe

 in the compelling power 

of love.

 I do not understand it. 

I believe it to be

 the most fragrant blossom 

of all this thorny

 existence. "

Theodore Dreiser

" The greatest lovers 

are like twin blooms,
each reflecting

 the passion and the glory

of the other. "

  

 Jonathan Lockwood Huie

" How did the rose

 ever open its petals
 and give to this world

 all of its beauty?
It felt the encouragement
 of light on its being,
otherwise we all remain
 too frightened. "

  Hafez

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Walking Stones

A  L  O  H  A !
 

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 " I am one

 who is fond of 

olden times

 and intense in quest 

of the sacred knowing

 of the ancients.  "

Gustave Courbet

" Some are so very 

studious 

of learning what was done

 by the ancients

 that they know not

 how to live

 with the 

moderns.  "

William Penn"

 “ Reflection is 

a flower of the mind,
 giving out

 wholesome fragrance ”

 Desiderius Erasmus

 “ But who will watch my lilies, 

 When their blossoms open white? 

By day the sun shall be sentry, 

 And the moon and the stars by night!”

Bayard Taylor

 " The snowdrop and primrose

 our woodlands adorn, 

and violets bathe 

in the wet o' the morn.  "

Robert Burns

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Ah the ancients.

How did they do it?

Building things,

unimaginably heavy

things;

Voyaging

across  oceans

vast.

How?

Modern theories are often

untested-

Old stories

tell of magic

and gods.

There is a stone

not far from here

at the gates of Punahou School

that our president passed

daily there

as a school boy.

Actually, the stone

by the gate

is just a fragment

of the original 

Pohaku.

[ Link ]

There remains

an old legend 

about the moving 

of the great Pohaku: 

" This is not a stone,
it is a man "

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The stone that 

walked

like a man.

sounds cool, right?

Well below is a video

of a large stone

"walking"

with the help of 

some friends
right here
on this island.

It may clear up

an enduring mystery

about the great Moai

of Rapa Nui.

 ( "Easter Island" )

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for 'walking' here today

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The Golden Hint

A  L  O  H  A !

" I believe in

 the Golden Rule. 

I believe in

 practicing it. "

Loretta Young 

" Here's my Golden Rule 

for a tarnished age:

 Be fair with others,

 but keep after them

 until they're fair

 with you. "

Alan Alda

" The golden rule

 is that there are

 no golden rules.  "

George Bernard Shaw

 " The Golden Rule

 of Parenting is; 

do unto your children 

as you wish your parents

 had done unto you!  "

Louise Hart

 " The problem with the bronco

 is to get on 

and stay on. 

This is the problem 

with the Golden Rule-

to understand 

and apply.  "

James Cash Penney





  
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They call it

"The Golden Rule"

Rules we know ALL

about,

That is how they

taught us:

Consequences

like a law of 
Nature Mechanist

do this - get 

 that

mistaking their own

anxieties, and whims

into the rules
that they taught us

before we knew

there were any other.

But this rule's

Golden!

A contract even:

" I'll consider you,

and expect the same

in return. "

That is something

to be practiced,

hoped for;

A someday kinda thing,
until we get it 
right. 

But what if the Golden's

not just a finer

better rule?

Perhaps we call it 
Golden

to indicate some 
treasure there?

It refers to a knowing

about another person's

needs and desires

being very like one's own.

To know something reliable

about every Other you meet

would change,
 even ennoble

Everything!

A Golden Hint

about Something

we share;

a reliable unity

at the root of our 

differences riot.

A Golden Hint

about the nature of

We

that changes one

forever,

revealing a world

less cold.

A Hint.

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Kaimuki, Oahu

A  L  O  H  A !

“ As soon as I stop

 wishing for things 

to be different,
 I am met 

by the beauty 

of what 

is. ”

 

 Katrina Kenison.

Kaimuki 

was the first large subdivision

 outside of Honolulu

 Today she is a neighborhood

 of the City & County.

Locals see Diamond Head 

from Every angle.

I used a Kaimuki shot

 from 'behind'

the crater

for the cover of my

Hawaii novel.

[ see the cover

Here ]

 

 The landmark

 as it is know around the world:

in profile at the end of 

Waikiki Beach

I like Kaimuki,

 it's hilly-

fun to ride on my 

scooter.

 In 1898, 
two businessmen 

bought 520 acres of land there 

for 20,000 dollars,

 envisioning a modern, high class

 residential area 

among the red, rocky hills 

and subsistence dairy farms.

Fee simple house lots 

were offered for 400 to 600

 dollars each.

 Without paved roads

 it was a hard sell. 

And so far from

town!

The devlopers even offered

 a 50 dollar "Bounty" 

for every baby born 

in Kaimuki!

Look at the overhanging eaves,

and raised attic vent

for the cooling 

Trade Winds

to blow through.

Contemporary Hawaii

buildings continue

these 'local touches'

like these apartments

in Waikiki do:

I love the sweet old

 narrow streets,

 and the small, indigenous 

Hawaii style houses
of Kaimuki.

Kaimuki is like a museum

of Honolulu's 20th Century.

Wonder who lives

here:

You never know which celebrities are laying low in Hawaii!

“ Trust that little voice

 in your head that says

 'Wouldn't it be interesting if..';
And then do it.”

Duane Michals

Just another perfect day. . . 

in Honolulu

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Doting V Knowing

A  L  O  H  A !

 

" Knowledge

may have it's purposes,

but guessing is 

always more fun

than knowing. "

W. H. Auden

 Help is on the way - Indian Mynah

When the thrill

of learning &

discovery

begins to cool,

we grab some

artifacts

that are close

 at hand,

and

declare it

"Knowing."

Then teaching

and forgetting

ensue.

The only way

to hold on

to the excitement

of the fully lived

moment -

- is to make 

every moment

relaxed,

inhabited,

fully lived.

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Stop trying

start being-

Miraculously:

Nothing will be

undone.

"Must"

is no longer

your mantra.

Try instead:

"Perhaps."

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