Advice To A Friend

A   L   O   H   A !

 Any negative fear

Can be dissolved

By Gratitudes

Called to mind.

I don't know why;

It just

Works

Don't think of sad things

Don't Pull at loose strings,

Don't eat with those

Who tread on your toes.

While giving bouquets

Save yourself a rose.

Time

Can be a very sad thing

In very many ways:

Useful servant

Always teaching

'Nothing Stays.'

I have nothing to say

Then we get together.

Everything is interesting

And Stories pour forth;

My stories - which I had 

Forgotten.

You give me back myself

By calling it out to play.

You are 

That rarest of all

A True friend.

I hope you know already:

I appreciate You

Every day.

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Thanks for sitting

under da tree with us!

               Warmly, cloudia

Dusk Set NightFall

A   L   O   H   A !

Photos are satisfyingly clickable - DO!

" At this stage in my life, 

I think it's all about 

the soft stuff.  

I don't give a damn 

about what you know 

or what you do 

if you can't be kind. -

" I want the 

art of you 

before I'll tangle 

with the science 

of you. -

" Talk to me 

so that I might know 

who you are. -

" Be naked 

in the vocabulary 

of kindness. "

                 Sandy Carlson

[ ALL Above ]

" The difference 

between school and life?

 In school, 

you're taught a lesson 

and then given a test. -

In life, 

you're given a test

 that teaches you 

a lesson.”

               Tom Bodett 

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for Visiting!

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Honolulu Mural Madness

A L O H A !

What is going on here?

Just another day in Honolulu!

[ did you notice the man atop the building? ]

Click on photo to see the Deere

" 'Tis an ill wind
 that blows no minds. "
Malaclypse the Younger

What are you going to do with that Gradall!!!???

Enjoy more Mural Monday

Here

Thanks!

           Warmly, cloudia

Layered Dawn Rainbow Bay

A   L   O   H   A !

Layered dawn of Honey Moon 

[ next one:  June 13, 2098 ]
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" A joyful life

 is an individual creation

 that cannot be 

copied from a recipe. "

                Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Layers of a Different Stripe

" Tranquil pleasures 

last the longest; 

we are not fitted

to bear the burden 

of great joys. "

              Christian Nevell Bovee

Click Oh Click on THIS One!

Waves Too

Are Layers 

of Healing, 

Washing & 
Washing Away

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for Visiting

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Tapa Cloth Graces

A   L   O   H   A !

 Tap Tap Tap. . . 

These Hawaiian Ladies are 

manufacturing Kapa Cloth. 

“I was tired of seeing

 the Graces

 always depicted as

 beautiful young things.

 I think wisdom comes 

with age 

and life 

and pain. 

And knowing 

what matters.” 

                   Louise Penny

Pounding out mulberry bark 

to make the cloth

I hole ‘ia no ka i‘e i ke kau o ka lā.

The time to cut designs

 in a tapa beater

 is when the sun is high.

[Do your work 

when you are at your best.]

                                 Hawaiian Proverb

The carved sticks 

that print the patterns

" When 'I' 

is replaced with

 'We', 

even 'Illness'

 becomes 'Wellness'. " 

                                     Malcolm X.

 Drying & inspecting 

the printed Kapa

" To fulfill a dream, 

to be allowed to 

sweat over lonely labor, 

to be given the chance 

to create, 

is the meat and potatoes 

of life. 

The money is the gravy. 

As everyone else,

I love to dunk my crust in it.

 But alone, 

it is not a diet designed 

to keep body 

and soul together. "

                          Bette Davis,

                                                    The Lonely Life, 1962  

Read More About Kapa 

Here


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Lame of Thrones

A   L   O   H   A !

" A throne 

is only a bench 

covered with velvet. "

              

                  Napoleon Bonaparte

" Someone smart 

once said 

that on the 

most exalted throne 

in the world, 

we are seated on 

nothing 

but our own arse. "

                    Wendell Mayes

" There's nothing secret about it.

 Everyone knows

 that I am waiting for 

my real parents, 

the king and queen,

 to come restore me 

to my rightful throne."

Meg Cabot

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for Visiting!

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Sky Watch HAWAII

A   L   O   H   A !

Virga Rainbow

" Don't waste yourself 

in rejection, 

nor bark 

against the bad, 

but chant the 

beauty 

of the good. "

                Ralph Waldo Emerson

Banners

"In literature

 as in love,

 we are astonished

 at what is chosen

 by others."

                 Andre Maurois

Silver Linings

“Too many people 

miss the silver lining 

because they're expecting 

gold.”

                        Maurice Setter

“Every cloud

 has its silver lining

 but it is sometimes

 a little difficult

 to get it to 

the mint”

 Don Marquis

See Other Sky Watchers

Here 

              Thanks! Cloudia