What Three Words?

A   L   O   H   A   !

Play the song - really goes with the picture

" Silly cowboy,
 trucks are for girls! "
bumper sticker

" It aint the clothes

 that make the cowgirl,

 it's the attitude and heart. "

Cowgirl Wisdom

" The day you were born 

was the day that God decided 

that the world could not exist 

without you. "

Rabbi Nachman.

Like many others do,
 we Hawaii folk get most of our supplies
 out of the big trailers usually pulled by 
trucks (lorrys)
but ours travel between the islands
 onboard barges like this one!



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Imagine!

You & I have been

arrested!

We are handcuffed

together

in the back of

a police car.

What would YOU

say?

Use only 3 Words -

GO!

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Right There - Don't Compare

A   L   O   H   A  !

Don't compare your 

middle

 with somebody else's 

beginning.

Rarely can we see

 those ahead of us

 on the path,

up around the bend

from glen to glen.

So find your footing

right there.

And don't 

compare -

 - Your middle

 with somebody else's

 beginning. . .



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Honolulu Farmer's Market

A  L  O  H  A !

"Age does not

 protect you from love.

 But love, to some extent, 

protects you from age." 

 Anais Nin

" Be faithful
 to that which exists 
nowhere 
but in yourself - 
and thus make yourself 
indispensable." 

Gide

" The goldenrod is yellow,
 The corn is turning brown, 
The trees in apple orchards 
With fruit are bending down. "


Helen Hunt Jackson 

" "To freely bloom - 

that is my definition
 of success" 

Gerry Spence

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Sun for Your Face

A   L   O   H   A !

" To love and be loved 

is to feel the sun

 from both sides. "

David Viscott 

"Constant kindness 

  can accomplish much. 
  
  As the sun makes ice melt,
  
    kindness causes  
  
   misunderstanding, mistrust,  

   and hostility  

  to evaporate." 


 Albert Schweitzer 

" Laughter is the sun

 that drives winter

 from the human face."

Victor Hugo 

" Science cannot solve 

the ultimate mystery of nature. 

And that is because, 

 we ourselves are part of nature 

and therefore part 

of the mystery 

that we are trying 

to solve. "

Max Planck

" The infinitely little

 have a pride 

infinitely great."

Voltaire 

" He was like a cock 

who thought the sun 

had risen to hear

 him crow. "

George Eliot 

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BRIGHTENS my day

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Gravity 3D = OMG

A  L  O  H  A !

" Enjoyment of the landscape

 is a thrill. "

David Hockney 

" The creative habit

 is like a drug.

 The particular obsession

 changes,

 but the excitement,

 the thrill 

of your creation

 lasts. "

Henry Moore 

" The thrill 

of coming home 

has never changed. "

Guy Pearce 

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Being a film snob

I rarely see

spectaculars;

But an old pal

wanted to see

G R A V I T Y

in 3D.

My friend is a 

visual artist,

so his response

would be interesting

even if the film

struck me as

an empty magic trick.

Grumpy me

didn't want to

wear the 3-D glasses

over my eye glasses.

but they were light

and comfortable.

Previews

were of upcoming

3D films.

When the Hobbit's forrest

exploded around me,

snow falling,

everything wondrously

yet subtly 

three dimensional,

let's just say that

I was hooked,

even before one of the 

birds flew past me.

I settled in for

technological thrill

of the species

"Planetarius"

and from the first scene

WAS thrilled

by the visual and moral

wonder of 

leaving our insular

little Earth.

The acting

was superb.

This was more than

a visual display.

A Thrill-a-second

true heroes adventure!

I won't spoil it.

If you are a prig like me,

drop your reserve

and go see this film.

What tale 

(film, TV, Book, myth, project, or poet)

is thrilling YOU

at the moment?

Do share in comments.

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Poetry Game - Movies & Songs

A  L  O  H  A !

"Most people ignore most poetry 

 because 

most poetry ignores most people."

       

 Adrian Mitchell

" Let yourself 

become 

living poetry. "

Rumi 

" Poetry is

 a big space 

and I love it. "

Selima Hill

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Some of our friends

write poetry

informed by

literature, the bible,

deep reading & study.

Others of us (like me)

have a frame of reference

involving television

and movies.

I have "written" a poem

every line of which

is the title of a song

(I've made them links

so you can click on the line

and hear the song)

Wild card:

One line may be

a line from a film.

My line #2

is from Woody Allen's

Annie Hall

So without furthur ado-

Second Hand Rose

How is this your buisiness?

The times they are a changing

So Shimmy Shimmy Coco-Bop

Rock Around the Clock

Tie a Yellow Ribbon

on the Eve Of Destruction.

There Has To Be

a Morning After.

Now YOU try it!
then link here,
or link us to your
poetry cliques.

But not before
you give us a "shout"
in Comments.
(or is it a comment in shouts?)
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Polynesian People & Culture Teach the World!

I'm So PROUD
 to have worked with this amazing educator & leader. 
A MOST soulful wahine!

 

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