Waikiki Beach Boys

A L O H A !

" -  in a future existence, 

we shall look upon 

what we think

 our present existence,

 as a dream. ”  

  Edgar Allan Poe

Without them, it would be only a beach:

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Jacaranda Season

A   L   O   H   A  !

Jacaranda Season in Waikiki

A native of Brazil,

the jacaranda is a leguminous tree,

 with wood called 'violet wood'

 'king wood'

or 'tiger wood.'

   Jacaranda 

is it's own genus

 (of the catalpa family).

Introduced to Hawaii

around 1900

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" There's the space 

that you soar into,

 the space

 that you sometimes 

break through to,
 and hang in.

 A sort of gasp 

or gap. "

Selima Hill

" - it is never our tenderness

 that we repent of,
 but our severity." 

 George Eliot

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Lux-nificent

A   L   O   H   A  !

" Never let go 

of that fiery

 sadness

 called desire. "

Patti Smith

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End of Sales

A   L   O   H   A  !

Always

I wanted to help

by talking,

telling,

sharing.

Ti Plants

If my show

was good enough:

EUREKA!

Lesson learned,

problem solved.

But I learned,

people only hear

what THEY

are READY

to hear.

And you can only

know

when they are

 ready

by listening

to THEM.

more is accomplished

by "being there"

by listening.

When I see a person

striding across a stage

to teach or tell,

like @ You Tube

or a conference,

Something inside me

is disgusted.

"Enough experts!

Enough Breakthroughs!

Enough SALES

technique!"

Experts stand revealed

today

as deeply flawed

self-promoters.

When enough of us feel

that disgust;

When we start 

listening to

all stake-holders

instead of

mere contesting,

Then the SALES

can end.

Actual solutions

can emerge.

Someday.

" People have the power

 to redeem 

the work of fools.  "

Patti Smith

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Inspired Stupid

Yellow Sally

A   L   O   H   A  !

“Of all the girls that are so smart 

 There's none like pretty Sally, 

 She is the darling of my heart,

 And she lives in our alley.”

 Henry Carey

Children Observed

A   L   O   H   A  !

“ The soul should always stand

 ajar, 

ready to welcome

 the ecstatic experience.”

 Emily Dickinson

Look what I caught!

" The creative individual

 has the capacity to free himself 

from the web of social pressures 

in which the rest of us are caught.

 He is capable of 

questioning the assumptions

 that the rest of us 

accept.  "

John W. Gardner

" The most remarkable thing 
about my mother
 is that for thirty years 
she served the family
 nothing but leftovers. 
The original meal
 has never been 
found.  "

Calvin Trillin

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