On a Clear Day

A L O H A !
 

" My favorite things in life

 don't cost any money.

 It's really clear 

that the most 

precious resource 

we all have is

 time. "

Steve Jobs 

Virga

" In meteorology, 

virga is an observable streak

 or shaft of precipitation

 that falls from a cloud 

but evaporates

 or sublimes 

before reaching the ground."

Wikipedia

" The water in a vessel 

is sparkling;

 the water in the sea 

is dark. 

The small truth

 has words which are 

clear; 

the great truth

 has great silence. "

Rabindranath Tagore 

" Never regret 

anything you have done 

with a sincere affection;

 nothing is lost

 that is born of 

the heart. "

Basil Rathbone 

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Wit of Without

A  L  O  H  A !

" Wit has truth in it;

wisecracking

is simply

calisthenics

with words. "

Dorothy Parker

"Rules

cannot take the place

of character. "

Alan Greenspan

Micronesian Lady Reflects

“I have met the enemy,

 and it is the eyes

 of other people.”

 Benjamin Franklin

" Be the first

to not do

what nobody has

ever thought

of not doing before."

Brian Eno

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Someone's Living - It's ME!

A  L  O  H  A !

" Small opportunities 

are often the 

beginning 

of great enterprises."

 Demosthenes

"You don't have to live your life 

so that your life is suitable 

for small talk. 

Life can be lived 

in ways that 

circumnavigate 

a myriad of colors..."

Cherie Ve Ard

" There is no persuasiveness 

more effectual

 than the transparency 

of a single heart, 

of a sincere life. "

Joseph Barber Lightfoot 

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Raise the Noodle

A  L  O  H  A !

"I love my view of Honolulu

Lately, 

this worm, or noodle

has emerged

 from the murky depths

of the Ala Wai canal.

It seems benign,

 if ugly,

and decidedly

 un-tropical paradise

It was a submerged 

sewer by-pass

enabling the 

City & County of Honolulu

to repair Waikiki's aging

 netherworld.

Now,

 these Civil Saint George's

are slaying the scaly thing:

draining, floating,

preparing it 

to be hoist away.

These 

are the ACTUAL persons

who keep our infrastructure

 working,

ALL over the world.

Let's appreciate them!

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Hope YOU Are

"Pure awareness

 transcends thinking... 

It allows you to 

look at the world 

once again 

with open eyes. 

And when you do so, 

a sense of wonder 

and quiet contentment 

begins to reappear 

in your life."

Mark Williams & Danny Pennman

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Happy in Plain Sight

A  L  O  H  A !

Aladdin's Lamp

" Anger

 is a wind

 which blows out 

the lamp of the mind. "

Robert Green Ingersoll 

" Twilight 

drops her curtain down,

 and pins it 

with a star. "

Lucy Maud Montgomery 

" Remember 

to be gentle 

with yourself 

and others. 

We are all 

children of chance 

and none can say 

why some fields will blossom 

while others lay brown 

beneath the August sun."

Kent Nerburn 

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Be gentle

gentle friend

with yourself

first of all.

Others may be selling,

resentful,

or zombies - 

What is that

to YOU

child of stars?

Let them joust

popular phantoms.
How could you
wake them?

Be You

too busy

enjoying

the evident.

You Deserve it.

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Sun Word Beams

A  L  O  H  A 

" Be brief; 

for it is with words 

as with sunbeams - 

the more they are 

condensed 

the deeper they 

burn. "

John Dryden 

" It requires less character

 to discover the faults

 of others

 than is does to

 tolerate them. "

J. Petit Senn

" Tomorrow do thy worst,

 I have lived today. "

John Dryden 

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