Heavenly

A L O H A ! 

In Heaven

God is the government

and the only competition

is in sharing;

Abundance is unsparing,

and boredom

never wearing.

Thanks for dropping by!

                        Warmly, cloudia

Southern Seas

A L O H A ! 

 

" Now if you love

 this southern sea

And pleasant 

summer weather;

" Come,

 let us mount 

this gallant ship,

And sail away 

together. "

Marshall  Saunders,

=^.^=

Your visit

is a gift!

Thank  You

                                        Warmly, cloudia

"Dancing on the Moon" - Fleischer Cartoon Classic 1935

A L O H A !

 Ah, a lazy Island Saturday !

 Once around Diamond Head 

 - that's Diamond Head Light,

 home (the attached house)

to the Grand Poohbah

 of the US Coast Guard

 District

 Look - 

I caught a bird in flight!

(see how the feet 

are extended to land?)

Well, We've 

"Played Outside"

Now let's

REALLY

be kids again! 

 <>[}:{]<>

 When we were young

Saturday morning

was the time

to watch CARTOONS

on the little black & white

TV.

Before Sponge Bob,

or Angry Birds,

a whole other 

wondrous world

was created

by a man

you probably never

heard of:

" Max Fleischer 

(July 19, 1883 – September 11, 1972)

 was an American animator.

 He was a pioneer in the development

 of the animated cartoon

 and served as the head of Fleischer Studios. 

He brought such animated characters as

 Betty Boop, Koko the Clown, Popeye,

 and Superman to the movie screen 

and was responsible for

 a number of technological innovations. "

LINK 

 =^.^=

If you remember Betty Boop

and her pal Bimbo,

if you remember

dancing, singing flowers,

and a clothed animal audience

watching a live show,

you ALREADY have 

the Fleischer bug!

Are there things

 from your own

childhood

that you think about

from time to time?

Is there an old song

that starts playing

 in your head,

as it has for

decades?

Well here's mine - 

BIG TIME!

Thanks to You Tube

nothing is really lost.

So shall we dance?

On the moon?!

I think you'll be glad

if you watch this

technologically

AMAZING

animation from the

1930s

  

                            WARMLY, cloudia

My Angry Friends

A  L  O  H  A !

" Freedom is the right 
to tell people 
what they do not want
 to hear. "

George Orwell

 “ It is generally agreed that

 "Hello"

 is an appropriate greeting
because if you entered a room 

and said

 "Goodbye,"
 it could confuse

 a lot of people ”

 Dolph Sharp

" Love
 is of the soul.
Fear
 is of the personality. "

 Gary Zukav 

 "Seat Of The Soul"

" The only thing

more destructive

than a tornado

is a family. "

Reynolds Price

 " You
 multitude of the dead

 are merely
 people

 who have done certain things, 

and the memory of those things

 illuminates my path. "

Frank Herbert,

Dune

" Have a heart

 that never hardens. .  . 

and a touch 

that never hurts.  "

Charles Dickens

< ° ) } } > <

Some people 
seem so angry 
these days.

Everyone it seems
reserves the right

to be right

exclusively.

AND
 they are angry about it.

Some people

are scary angry,

full of far-fetched

conspiracy theories-

all of which

seem to match

perfectly

their own

prejudices, and 

comfort zone-

isn't that convenient!
Meticulous
in judging those
they never met,
their own motivations
are a mystery 
to themselves.

If you don't agree

100 percent

then they become angry

at you too;

Or if they like you,

merely condescending

and dismissive.

Angry people
 want to instruct
 you & me
because NOBODY
who understands
could possibly
dissagree
with their
simplistic
version of events.
 
 

Hey angry people,

I'm done engaging with you.

You never listen,

you never acknowledge

anything I say.

Facts bounce off you-

so I'm done.

"What, "

you say,

"You are dismissing my views

from here on out,

without even listening?! "

Yes, angry friend,

Now I am going

to behave
 just like you.

Only without the 

corrosive anger.

Instead I will laugh

to myself

as I shake my head

and give your 

radical lunacy

the wide berth

it so richly

deserves.

With Voltaire
 

(French 

and an intellectual,

so you no-doubt

think he's stupid) 

with Voltaire I say:

" Think for yourself, 

ditto head,

and let others enjoy

the same privilege. " 

What do you,

my non-angry friends

think about this?

                         Warmly,  cloudia

Google Play Books - Hawaii History

A  L  O  H  A !

King David Kalakaua

 of the Hawaiian Islands

  David Laamea Kamanakapuu Mahinulani Naloiaehuokalani Lumialani Kalakaua 

Ruled from February 12, 1874 until his death in 1891

His motto:

"Hooulu Lahui"

 "Let the Hawaiian Race Flourish"

 Hula  celebrating Kalakua

upon his 50th birthday jubilee

  Iolani Palace. 

November 1886 

 Contemporary Street Mural,

 Honolulu

\O-O/

 There are TOO Many books.

Even I wrote one.

Clicking around your blogs

makes the reading

of one book,

hour after hour,

seem hopelessly

old fashioned.

BUT when I was a kid

my town of Philadelphia

seemed full of

Old Books,

hundred-year-old books

that crumbled

in your hand!

I spent lots of time

at Legendary

Leary's Book Store

" Leary's Old Book Store in Philadelphia,

  9 South 9th Street

around 1910. 

 When it was sold out at auction

 in 1969 

it was the oldest used book store 

in the U.S.

 Getting ready for the sale,

 a copy of the Dunlap first printing 

of the Declaration of Independence 

was discovered forgotten and neglected. 

It fetched over $400,000.00.

 Leary's was a great place 

to root around for old books - 

and to overhear the conversations

 of old book men.  "

Books Rare

HERE

 " The building consisted of three floors 

and a basement full of books. 

 On the third floor, an opening in the floor

 allowed a view of the mezzanine down below.

Additional books were placed outside

 on shelves on the Leary’s side of the

 [cobblestone! cloudia)

alleyway

 separating it from Gimbels Dept store.

Some provision was made

 to shelter the books

 and the readers

 in the alley way,

 but, most of the time, 

the books and browsers,

 suffered the inclemency of the

 outdoor Philadelphia weather.

Throughout the building, 

numerous used books were everywhere: 

on wall shelves and piled high on tables

 for readers to browse through. 

The policy of the bookstore

 was not to interfere 

with readers and browsers,

 but simply to direct customers

 to their areas of interest if asked. "

" Leary’s heyday

 was during the “Golden Age of Books,”

 a period during the 19th century 

and the first half of the 20th century 

when books were the key source

 of entertainment and enlightenment. "

Wikipedia

 How I loved

to find treasures,

 and to read away

 a Summer's afternoon;

Back then,

those afternoons seemed

endless,

 lasting for DAYS!

Old books were cheap,

cheap enough for me to buy,

though I'm ashamed to admit

(all these decades later)

that I also

"borrowed" a few

from Leary's!

Burying myself

in old books

was my 

Safe Place.

Nowadays,

books seem expensive,

and there are

SO MANY

coming out!

Lately, though

I have discovered

a wonderful place

to recall the joy

of old books,

many of them

FOR FREE!

Today's Leary's is

Google Play.

At the top of the 

GOOGLE Page

one of the choices is

"PLAY."

There you may purchase,

read and watch/listen

to films, TV shows,

and Books!

Lots of the historic books

there are FREE!

Lately I have been lost

in Hawaii's past

as written in the 19th

and early 20th Centuries.

 Here is a first-person

(rather Blog-like)

account of 

Kalakaua at the
 opening ceremonies
 of the
 Kingdom's Legislature.

Note the racism

common to that day

in the grudging admiration-

(Tip: hold the Ctrl key

while you tap the + key

to make reading easier.

Holding Ctrl while tapping

the zero '0' key

brings screen back to

your normal setting.
Or click on the photo-copies. )

Published 1888

{      }

From 1918

" One often hears"

Hawaii Past & Present

William Richards Castle

{    }  

Premature lament

for the passing

of "The Hawaiian"

Katherine Fullerton Gerould, 1916

{   }

Their Future Honolulu - My Today

Would Kalakaua

recognize 

his capitol?

Now I understand

how my paradisaical

Home Town

came to be

as it is- 

from 1917:

Thanks for visiting!

                            Warmly, cloudia

Hear the Kalakaua March HERE