Web-Brained

Mirror-Face


"Trust is like a mirror,

you can fix it if it's broken,

but you can still see the crack

in that mother fuckers reflection."



— Lady Gaga and Beyonce`

Tiny Surfers - Big Ocean



“The more you lose yourself

in something bigger than yourself,

the more energy you will have.”


Norman Vincent Peale

Again with the reflections.



"Reflective thinking


turns experience


into insight."




- John Maxwell



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My attentions have followed the cultural elite


right off a cliff


into a short-attention-span state



like that of Brave Ulysses.


I am beguiled by the siren posts


of you other dreamers.


My attention and time are spent


but with the metabolism of a bird


distracted by the shining web-tinsel;


Our formerly serviceable minds


now hop and tweet


from limb to limb


never alighting long enough


to sing a novella,


build the nest of description,

or (sometimes) a career. . .


. . . Tweet Tweet!


Aloha fellow web-brain :)

Sky Climbing Lentils

Aloha!
Welcome to da Beach


you can click on these photos:

I never tire of looking at Diamond Head, do you?
Mount Leahi (Brow of the Tuna)
got her modern name from British sailors
who found calcite crystals on her slopes, and believed them
DIAMONDS!

The path is sometimes steep, eh?




"Always continue the climb.

It is possible for you to do whatever you choose,

if you first get to know who you are

and are willing to work with a power

that is greater than ourselves to do it."



Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Now that's a SKY!


"A certain recluse,


I know not who,


once said that no bonds attached him to this life,


and the only thing he would regret leaving was the sky."



Kenko Yoshida

A Lenticular cloud is said to look like a lens.
The lens was so named,
because it resembled the
Lentil.


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Summer is the syllabus of silliness.



We like go beach!



As we say in Hawaii Pidgin. . . .




It's one thing to schedule a post,



and because I value our relationship



I like to keep the images and words flowing your way.



Of course, that is only a PART of the blog-life.



Reading You,




following YOUR adventures



is the unexpectedly Best Part



of the Blogosphere to me.



So on these days of Summer Idleness,



when I wander far from the World Wide Web,



know that you are in my thoughts;



even if I'm not in your COMMENTS



as often as usual.


Warm Aloha, my Friend! cloudia

ps: I hear that some of us have been NOT getting comments that
readers try to post. My policy is to wait for GOOGLE/BLOGGER
to fix stuff before I get too upset....they always seem to eventually.
Maybe they like go beach?

Hawaiian Ghost

This town looks pretty modern. . .


"I ain't afraid of no ghosts."
Bill Murray

But some old characters are still hanging around


"There are mystically in our faces certain characters

which carry in them the motto of our souls,

wherein he that cannot read A, B, C may read our natures."

~Sir Thomas Browne

. . . and some even-older ones!

"The face of a child can say it all,

especially the mouth part of the face."



Jack Handy

Sure, disbelieve when the sun's shining. . .

“This night methinks is but the daylight sick.”

William Shakespeare

But something's out there.
To see more, click:

HERE

Crusing Palolo Valley

Aloha Friend!

Jazz: Chinatown, Honolulu
"The Dragon Upstairs" on Nu`uanu.

>< "Jazz is the folk music of the machine age."


Paul Whiteman


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"Jazz is an intensified feeling of nonchalance."


-- Françoise Sagan

Cruising in Palolo Valley is fun.



"If I rest I rust."


Placido Domingo


This home has a view of tiny, doll-like houses on the ridge behind.



"When I was a kid, I went to the store and asked the guy,

'Do you have any toy train schedules?' "


— Steven Wright





The Korean Temple


The top peak was above city regulations
and neighbors demanded that it be "trimmed."
See the flat place?


"Five enemies of peace inhabit with us -

avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride;

if these were to be banished,

we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace."

Petrarch

Looking back into Diamond Head
as we drive out of the Valley.


"Most of American life consists of driving somewhere

and then returning home,

wondering why the hell you went."



John Updike


Thanks for swinging by today! cloudia

scoots!

Aloha, My Dear...

Thanks for Dropping By!

*Sigh* Let's not spend the whole day at the beach...




"The chief barrier to happiness...


is envy."



Frank Tyger

Side-car Scoot!




"The sentimentalist

ages far more quickly

than the person who loves his work

and enjoys new challenges."


Lillie Langtry

Gardener? That's an Ulu (breadfruit) leaf turned yellow.




"Boys dream of native girls who bring breadfruit,

Whatever they are,"


Philip Larkin

A wee cafe` racer!


"A café racer, originally pronounced "caff" (as in Kaff) racer, is a type of motorcycle as well as a type of motorcyclist.



Both meanings have their roots in the 1960s British counterculture group the Rockers, or the Ton-up boys, although they were also common in Italy, Germany, and other European countries.



Rockers were a young and rebellious Rock and Roll counterculture that wanted a fast, personalized and distinctive bike to travel between transport cafés along the newly built arterial motorways in and around British towns and cities.




The goal of many was to be able to reach 100 miles per hour (called simply "the ton") along such a route where the rider would leave from a cafe, race to a predetermined point and back to the cafe before a single song could play on the jukebox, called record-racing. They are remembered as being especially fond of Rockabilly music and their image is now embedded in today's rockabilly culture.





A classic example of this was to race from the Ace Cafe on The North Circular road in NW London to the Hanger Lane junction as it then was - it is now the more famous Hanger Lane Gyratory System - and back again. The aim was to get back to the Ace Cafe before the record you'd put onto the jukebox had finished. Given that some of the Eddie Cochran tunes that were in vogue at this time were less than two minutes long, the racers would have had to traverse the three miles round trip at extremely high speed." Wikipedia



Let's GO!

Pirates!!!!!

Aloha Means:

"Welcome; Glad to See You!

A Pirate Ship Has Been Sighted Off Oahu!

The Local Populace Grows Frantic

As the Captain Comes Ashore!

Pirates of the Caribbean 4 Trailer

Million Year Walk

Aloha Web-Wandering Friend

YOU are most welcome here at this beach...

Yes, Hawaiian Skies are Gentle in Summer



“Do not spoil what you have


by desiring what you have not;



remember that what you now have



was once among the things you only hoped for.”



Epicurus

Boys and Girls Play in the Lagoon





“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life,

the whole aim and end of human existence”


Aristotle

The Taro Plants, Brother Kalo, flourish in the Lo`i.



"People seldom notice old clothes

if you wear a big smile."


Lee Mildon



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And yet there is another story unfolding...

A story that was already old millions of years ago-


Humans could not see this creation the first time

But today we walk on newly creating LAND!

"Creat-ING because the awesome work is on-going.

Behold Hawaii's newest portion, on our Big Island.

To see some spectacular still shots of the lava approaching a home,
click HERE