TRIBALRY

Aloha!

Thanks for Visiting

The only truly valuable things

are time,

and love.

All else is mere exchange.

We all struggle with limitations.

None of us can be 100%

100% of the time.

How we handle those limits

is ultimately more important

than what they are. . .

"The question is:

'Will you be a wounded hurt-er

or a wounded healer?'"


Cornel West

"Ring the bells that still can ring

Forget your perfect offering.

There is a crack in everything,

That's how the light gets in."


~Leonard Cohen

"Peace is our gift to each other."


Elie Wiesel


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Your visit & comment

are gifts

that I value;

Mahalo

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Make t Look EasyI

ALOHA!

Come On In-

“Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment.

There is no why.”


Kurt Vonnegut

Complex skies




“Water has an endless horizon;

there is no limitation when you look out into the water.

There's nothing to interfere with the mind's eye projecting itself

as far as it can possibly imagine.


I suppose it's the same way people in the Midwest feel

about watching amber waves of grain or endless rows

of cornfields.

There is something exhilarating about it.”


Billy Joel

"Years and years of preparation are needed

to make it look easy."

cloudia



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October light

is like amber

poured over the afternoon.


Even here in the sub-tropics

sunlight wanes, moments a day,

Less harsh,

more of a blessing really.

An embrace of amber

instead of a punch in the face.


Soon all the coffee in Kona

will bloom tiny white blossoms

and red red cherries.

Woven baskets

some decades old

will be worn in the rows

and catch the cherries like before.

On the continent

where I was born

smokey, cooling nights

schocks of leaning corn

scarecrows!

Jack-O-Lanterns

on the porch.

Time passes.

We don't need the geese to rub it in

but we love them;

I love this whole crazy life.

Grab for all the candy

and mischief

you can.

This October

like all the others

will be

unique.


fondly, cloudia

Shimmy Shimmy

It's ALOHA Friday!

Welcome SKY Gazers

. . . Come in and Click on Today's Song:

Waikiki Sunset



"Every truth passes through three stages


before it is recognized.


In the first, it is ridiculed.


In the second, it is opposed.


In the third, it is regarded as self-evident."


Schopenhauer

"Little moments can have a feeling and a texture that is very real."


Ralph Fiennes

"Angels. . . help to hold the world together."


Marianne Williamson

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Don't you just love Friday?!




Mix in the first day of Magical October


and you have an intoxication!



Kona didn't suit me
being sunny most every day.



But when I discovered Oahu's
grey, rainy days of Autumn
I was happy as a duck,
listening to the raindrops
and enjoying the private pleasures
of coffee
and newspapers.
(remember newspapers?)



Then,
best of all,
the Sun bursts out!



And once again
Hawaiian skies are eloquent.



Hope you are enjoying
the texture of YOUR place. . . .



YOUR life.



That's my wish for you today;


Thank you for your kind visit. Do leave a comment :)

cloudia

Did You See?

ALOHA

Beach People!

Jump, Bobby.
Jump high like me!

You keep practicing.
I'm gonna look for Mom.

The PERFECT jump!
Sis! Did you see?
Did you see me?
Mom? Anyone?






Just the blogger,
passing by unseen.


And now YOU

have seen it too!


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"We are each gifted in a unique and important way.

It is our privilege and our adventure

to discover our own special light."

Mary Dunbar

What Trash Smells Like

A L O H A !

“Memory is a way of holding on to the things you love,

the things you are,

the things you never want to lose.”


Kevin Arnold

“We all have our time machines.

Some take us back, they're called memories.

Some take us forward, they're called dreams.”


Jeremy Irons

“A moment lasts all of a second,

but the memory lives on forever.”

Annonymous

Safeway Parking Lot


“It's surprising how much of memory

is built around things unnoticed at the time”



Barbara Kingsolver

“I've never tried to block out the memories of the past,

even though some are painful.

I don't understand people who hide from their past.

Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are

now.”



Sophia Loren

“If you haven't cried, your eyes can't be beautiful.”

Sophia Loren

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I wonder what trash smells like
it's been a long, long time.
Since I was a kid
cleaning offices
with dad's employees. . .

Back then it smelled like
cigarettes
marinated in stale coffee.


It's smelled like paper and ink
and sometimes the bosses cigars.

Corpses of grounds
wrapped in shroud brown filters
fell with a sickening "clump"
raising cloudlets of cigarette ashes
that settled on everything
to be dusted,
and 'vac-ed' next:

The reason that trash
is taken
first.
Then you dust from
up
to down.


The cigarettes, I guess, are gone.
Can you still smell the desperation?
The sweat?
The swears?

What does today's trash smell like?


It smells like a paycheck
to the least of these


as it did to me.


It smelled like my father

living only in sense-memory.


I never knew how happy I really was
at 15
wheeling my bike back home
through the wakening
city's
morning.

I miss ya Dad.



cloudia

Looking for Angels

Aloha

Happy to See YOU :)

"Space and light and order.

Those are the things that men need

just as much as they need bread

or a place to sleep."

Le Corbusier

"I search for the realness,

the real feeling of a subject,

all the texture around it...

I always want to see the third dimension of

something...

I want to come alive with the object. "

Andrew Wyeth

"Sometimes our light goes out

but is blown into flame

by another human being."

Albert Schweitzer

"Rocky"

"In matters of style, swim with the current;

in matters of principle, stand like a rock."

Thomas Jefferson

"Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out." Ben Franklin

"It always amazes me to think

that every house on every street

is full of so many stories."


"Glenn Close

><> Looking for angels? Looking way over there? Looking for evidence, a blowing curtain a feather left behind? Don't look for angels approaching from a magical distance approaching like a beam of light, arriving from far away. Looking for angels? Then Quickly, quietly out of the corner of your eye; catch the glimmer of the angel (or angels! :) already there. For they do not approach but wait by your side while we look afar for what is closer than we know ! Warmly, cloudia

Dancing the Big Island of HAWAII

Aloha Welcome

"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems,

but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort."



Herm Albright

Kamehameha II

“Being happy is better than being king”

African Proverb

These guys are gonna take us on a tour
of KONA on the Big Island of 'Hawaii'

Kona Kai `Opua

Lyrics by Henry Waiau

This mele tells of a love affair between Liholiho (Kamehameha II) and a woman of rank.


It sings of the places and activities of Kona and compares them to the deep emotions of love.




Known as Kona of the tranquil seas, the opua or pink cumulus cloud formations that hang low, are regarded as omens of good fortune and good weather.




Hinano is the blossom of the male pandanus tree and was used as an aphrodisiac.




Na`u is a game of Kona where the children chant "na`u" and hold their breath until the sun disappears.



On Nov. 27, 1823, the King and his Queen boarded the English ship L'Aigle.




They were the first of the Hawaiian Royals to travel abroad.




A state visit with King George of England was intended to establish a political and commercial understanding; The better to enable Liholiho to govern an island kingdom that attracted the avaricious interest of many foreigners.





Before they had an audience with the English Monarch,
the Hawaiians were struck with measles.



Queen Kamamalu died July 8, 1824



followed by the death of King Liholiho on July 14.



Like their subjects,, the Hawaiian Royals lacked immunity to western diseases.



"A Song About Kamehameha II"



Proud is Kona of Hawaii
The waters and thick clouds
Hualalai, the majestic mountain is high above
Kona is the best



This warm land
With the refreshing wind
The bright moonlight that
Beckons the visitors





Chorus:
Proud
The cloud banks over Kona's peaceful sea
Like the hinano flower
In the peaceful sea
The cloudbanks of Kona
Are incomparable, second to none
The cloudbanks of Kona
The streaked sea
The peaceful sea of Kona




The cloud bank over Kona's peaceful sea
Like the hinano flower in the calm
Where dusk descends with evening dew
The na'u is chanted by the playful children





Hold back the rays of the sun
The sun rays reflecting on the surface of the sea
Very warm is the land
Very loving the Ho`olulu progeny




Nothing compares to the love
O my beloved companion of all time
For my lovely chief, my last refrain
Liholiho, I praise your name





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