Red Was

A L O H A !

" Red was East, the color of the Sacred Fire, blood,and success. "

  Cherokee Nation

Building has a Bindi

" Red is one of the strongest colors,

it's blood, it has a power 

with the eye.  

I use red in all of my paintings.  "

                                                                                  

Keith Haring

 

 Neolithic hunters considered red 

to be the most important color

endowed with divine life-giving powers-

Cave painters too

ascribed magic powers 

to the color red-

 Some cultures believe that red

has protective powers against evil influence.

Try waving these feathers about!

“Rooster today,

feather duster tomorrow”

 

 Russian Proverb

 " Red

is the ultimate cure 

for sadness. "

 
Bill Blass

Truly a Baton Rouge

" Love

and a red rose

can't be 

hid. "

 @}-;-'--

  Thomas Holcroft    

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Thank You
for kindly visiting
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Reeling in the Years

A  L  O  H  A !

Pokai Bay, Oahu

" My favourite thing

is to go

where I've never been. "

Diane Arbus

 Has it really been a DECADE since I've walked in New York?!

" There is nothing

like returning to a place

that remains unchanged 

to find the ways 

in which you yourself

have altered.  "

Nelson Mandela

  

"Santa?   Hello?"

"A house without either a cat 

or a dog 

is the house of a scoundrel." 

 

Portuguese Proverb

What do you mean dog OR Cat?!

" A cat is more intelligent

than people believe,

and can be taught 

any crime. "

Mark Twain

 =^.^=

Kate Middleton

is turning

30.

I'd like to

feel & look

30-

But

would I actually go back

to that age?

What is that they say?

" If I knew then

what I know 

now!"

*Sigh*

There is also an old

Pennsylvania Dutch saying,

“ Too soon old,

  too late smart. ”

 Just between us;

it is certainly true 
of me.

George Bernard Shaw said

" Youth is wasted

on the young."

But I don't think that's true.

Youth has it's joys, tasks & 
challenges;

We mature people

have very different

ones.

So no,

I would not like to forget

the little wisdom

that I have acquired;

Nor the people

and experiences

that I have enjoyed
and endured

since age

30.

Elizabeth Taylor said:

" It is strange
that the years teach us patience;

that the shorter our time,

the greater our capacity for waiting. "

It takes courage to realize

that our time here,

(our loved ones' too)

has an expiration date.

If you could begin
again,

but had to leave the life
you know

and built

would you

?

Thank YOU for visiting!

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Lens of Love

A  L  O  H  A !

 

" In all things of nature 

there is something of the marvelous. "

Aristotle

"  I knew, of course,

that trees and plants had roots,

stems, bark, branches and foliage

that reached up toward the light. 

But I was coming to realize 

that the real magician 

was light itself.  "

Edward Steichen

 " If your actions inspire others

to dream more,

learn more, 

do more 

and become more, 

you are a leader. "

John Quincy Adams

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Lens of Love? 

 

No, 
not talking about
Beer Goggles!

What you see,

and who you see,

truly depends

on the lenses

that you are looking 

through.

Charles Dickens wrote of Christmas

that it helps us to regard

"those below us

as fellow passengers

to death."

That has stayed with me in recent weeks
(ignoring 'those below us' as
historic anachronism)

Are others objects

that you must maneuver around,

or are they ultimately 

the purpose of the trip?

Thank YOU
for joining us here
for part of your journey
today.

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frondescence:

leafage; foliage

A  L  O  H  A !

" We are each of us angels 

with only one wing,
and we can only fly 

by embracing one another. "

Lucretius

" I would rather be a superb meteor,

every atom of me

in magnificent glow, 

than a sleepy 

and permanent planet. "

Jack London

 Jack London 

received six hundred rejection slips

before he sold his first story.

" Darn the wheel of the world! 

Why must it continually turn over? 

Where is the reverse gear?  "

Jack London

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 Elton John

played Honolulu

last night.

Lion Dancers

pranced

in Chinatown.

 

 

But my greatest hits

and good luck wishes 

all revolve 

around home.

Thank YOU for looking in today-

so NICE to see you

No Ticket,

or firecrackers

required.

But your comment

is received

as a

gift!


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Resolution Solution

A  L  O  H  A !

Click on these shots!

" ...And great cloud-continents 

of sunset-seas. "

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

" Nobody got where they are

today 

by living for

tomorrow. "

Tom Wilson

 Life is a voyage.
 Victor Hugo

" Voyage upon life's sea, 

To yourself be true, 

And, whatever your lot may be, 

Paddle your own canoe. "

 Sarah Bolton

" The greatest wealth

is to live content

with little,

for there is never want

where the mind is satisfied. "  

Lucretius

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All signs

point

to YOU

having
a lovely weekend!

Regardless of the moods 
of others around,

cherish your secret joy.

You are entitled
to it.

If they are succeptible

they will share it with you
in some way;

if they are in a darker 

place,

they will feel your passing 
by

as a healing breeze.

Don't shoulder their pain

in misguided compassion,

but hold your love

and they may

in some small way

move towards it.

You love-bearer!

Thanks for bringing some
HERE


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Special Visitors

A L O H A !

It is the season 

to see humpback whales

in our Hawaiian waters. 

They migrate here from Alaska

between September and May 

to calve, feed, and relax. 

Some claim that they 

like the local acoustics

for singing !

We expect to see them

breaching offshore, 

so yesterday

was a little wild.

Chris Kojima was working

at Pier 30 in Honolulu Harbor 

(Thursday morning) 

aboard the Young Brothers tug

Manuokekai

when two humpback whales

suddenly surfaced right 

alongside!

 I got blasted a couple times 

by the spray coming of their nostrils,"

he told HawaiiNewsNow

William Winn,

the captain of the fishing boat,

Ocean Pearl,

told KITV that the whales 

followed his boat

into the harbor this morning

all the way to Pier 38.

"Yeah, for some reason they liked the boat.

They just hung with us for like, seven days.

They never left our side,"

said Winn.

"It was neat to have some company out there.

We've been out for almost 20 days,

so it was nice to have something to look at

other than my crew,"

said Winn with a laugh.

The mother & adorable calf 

were seen in the harbor

in the company of two or four

adult humpbacks.

shortly after 7 a.m.

"- whales aren't typically in harbors.

The reason why they're there is unknown,"

said Eric Roberts,

U.S. Coast Guard Marine Mammal 

Response Coordinator,

in typically colorless

science/military-speak.

State Department of Transportation’s

Harbors Division spokesman

Dan Meisenzahl 

recalled seeing whales in the harbor

around 1996.

 "Out of 21 years I've been here,

this is the first time I've seen whales

in this far,"

said Kaipo Pomaikai,

Sause Brothers (tug boats) 

assistant port captain.

The Coast Guard 

which received the report

around 7:45 a.m

dispatched a 45-foot response boat

to establish a 100-yard 

safety zone around the animals

 The rare visitors

completed their celebrity appearance

and left the harbor on their own by 1:45 p.m.

Presumably after saying "Aloha"

to their friend Captain Winn.

Further ashore, it was just another day

" Don't forget to show hospitality

to strangers,

for some who have done this

have entertained angels

without realizing it! "

Hebrews 13:2

 New Living Translation (©2007)

 " What's a whale? "

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Your visits here

mean a lot to me,

so I really try to share 

images and ideas

that are worthy

of your time.

Like many of us,

I'm on a post-holiday

mental "blank - out"

So I'm especially appreciative

of these visiting cetations

for giving me a

whale of a story!

Please visit "Comments Cove"

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