How To Pronounce HONOLULU

A  L  O  H  A !

 Three Monstera Leaves
" The lesson which life

 repeats and constantly enforces

is 'look under foot.' 

You are always 

nearer the divine 

and the true sources 

of your power

 than you think. "

John Burroughs

 Kolea / Golden Plover

 "Never hold discussions
 with the monkey 

when the organ grinder
 is in the room."

Sir Winston Churchill

" I like to listen.

 I have learned a great deal

 from listening carefully. 

Most people

 never listen." 

Ernest Hemingway

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 Hono, means “a bay,” 

 Lulu, means “sheltered.”

Unfortunately, the name 

of our town is usually

mispronounced:

"Hah - Nah - Loo - Loo"

It is properly:

"Ho - No - Loo - Loo"

Rhymes with:

"Oh No You You"

Now YOU Know!

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Shall Surely Be

A   L   O   H   A  !

" All human beings 

are also dream beings. 

Dreaming ties 

all mankind together. "

Jack Kerouac 

" If everyone 

is moving forward 

together, 

then success 

takes care of itself. "

Henry Ford 

 " Of all the senses, 

sight 

must be the 

most delightful. "

Helen Keller

As the Moon

Waxes & Wanes

All things

Including You and me

Have Cycles & Seasons,

A time to pig out

A time to eat healthier,

A time to sit on the couch,

And a Time to go outside.

Do not worry

About how you are

Today -

Tomorrow

Cycles  will still

Be turning, so

Keep the fires burning

What You lack today

Shall surely be

Returning.

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Waikiki Monday Sun For YOU

A  L  O  H  A !

" We must free ourselves 

of the hope

 that the sea will 

ever rest. 

We must learn 

to sail. "

 Hanmer Parsons Grant

 What awaits

Beyond the window

Today?

 Whatever it may be

let sleeping ducks lay-

 Flowers Freely Play-

 We are children

 on Life's beach

 Admiring the leaves & branches

out of reach-

" Great things are done 

by a series of 

small things 

brought together. "

Vincent Van Gogh 

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May YOUr day

Be filled with

Many Pieces of 

Great Things

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View From the Howdah

A   L   O   H   A  !

A Howdah is a seat or platform for

sitting upon an elephant. 

" You empower them a little bit,

 they empower you. It’s all a battle 

against the futility and the 

existential loneliness! 

It may be that we are 

all huddled together

 around the fire and

 trying to fight off that 

sense of the inevitable. 

That’s what we do

 for one another. "

Bruce Springsteen,

 in the New Yorker 30 Jul2012

 Sky Pearl in Fiery Setting

" We are fed a steady 

diet of superficiality.

Spruce up your character 

instead of your wardrobe. "

Jessica Hagy

I'll build a stairway to paradise

"When one door closes, 

another opens,

 but often we look so long 

at the closed door

 that we do not see 

the one that has opened 

for us”

 Helen Keller

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Thanks for visiting!
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Magic Clouds of HAWAII

Wishing YOU Sweet Skies, 

with Aloha from Waikiki

cloudia

Recharge Saturday

A   L   O   H   A  !

  " Humility, acceptance... 

with these coins

 we are to pay 

our fares to paradise."

 Robert  Lindner

Having a sense of 

Humor

is not the same thing

to treating life

as a joke

 “ I find that in your 60s 

everything begins to look 

sort of slightly 

magical again. . . "

Roger Cohen

Rest, Relax,

Recover.

May your visit 

here today

lift your spirits,

Friend!

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The Nearest Happiness

 A  L  O  H  A ! 

" May your coming 

year be filled with magic 

and dreams 

and good madness. . . 

And I hope, somewhere 

in the next year, 

you surprise yourself. "

Neil Gaiman 

    " The greatest power 

that a person possesses

 is the power 

to choose "

 J. Martin Kohe

" You'll come to learn

 a great deal 

if you study the

 Insignificant 

in depth. "

Odysseus Elytis

" Only if you have been

 in the deepest valley, 

can you ever know 

how magnificent it is

 to be on 

the highest mountain. "

 Richard Nixon

" To be kind to all,

 to like many 

and love a few,

 to be needed and wanted 

by those we love,

 is certainly the nearest 

we can come 

to happiness. "

Mary Stuart 

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Will you hear my confession?

I confess that it 

DELIGHTS me

that the Holidays 

have passed!

Gosh I'm enjoying

the return of 

"Normal."

You?

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