Labor Day Shout

A  L  O  H  A !

  " Love and work 

are the cornerstones 

of our humanness. "

                                Freud

 “No one 

who does good work 

will ever come 

to a bad end, 

either here

 or in the world to come” 

                      The Bhagavad Gita

Na ke kanaka mahi'ai ka imu o nui. 

"The well-filled oven 

belongs to him 

who tills the soil." 

 Work 

brings abundance

                   Hawaiian Proverb

" Do not take advantage 

of a hired worker who is

 poor and needy, 

whether like you,

 or a foreigner 

residing in your town. "

        Deuteronomy 24:14


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You & me-

All of us work

either for pay,
or because
it is who we are.

Today in the USA
we celebrate Workers
in a time
when $Capitol$
is in the VIP cue 
everywhere,
but humans
seeking work
are illegal
if they cross over.

You & I
we value people
and we value
their contributions,
whether
"like us"
or foreigners
in our midst.

Thank YOU
for being
One Of Us
Humans!

I'm proud to share
the work
of healing the world
with You
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Rust and Renewal

A  L  O  H  A !

Rust & Renewal in Honolulu's Chinatown

Linking to City Daily Photo: "Rust and Ruins"  
                          Here

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Mural Mundane

A  L  O  H  A !

Bac Nam restaurant here in Honolulu.
This mural is kinda hard to see. 
The sidewalk is too narrow. 
From across the street, trees obscure.
Click to see the whole pic

Click to see the best view I could get. 
Seems to be a surreal tropic landscape

Linking to Monday Murals

Here

Thank YOU for visiting
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Aglow

A  L  O  H  A !

" The glow 

of one warm thought

is to me 

worth more

 than money. "

                      Thomas Jefferson

“ I touched the moon last night;

a golden glow beyond my grasp.

Eons before me it rested there.

It will remain when I am dust.

My hand now glows 

from the embrace. . .

I touched the moon last night.” 

                              Craig Froman

" The loveliest of faces

 are to be seen

 by moonlight, 

when one sees half 

with the eye 

& half 

with the fancy. "

                            Persian Proverb

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Thank You

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Willow Mill Park "Under the Roller Coaster"

A    L    O    H    A  !

" If the 

only prayer you said 

was 'thank you'

that would be 

enough. "

                        Meister Eckhart 

". . . it takes a life 

to learn how

 to live. "

                     Jonathan Safran Foer 

click on photo to enjoy all the shadows showing off

“ I have learned that

if you must leave a place

that you have lived in 

and loved 

and where all your 

yesteryears 

are buried deep, -

" leave it any way 

except a slow way,

 leave it 

the fastest way 

you can. -

" Never turn back

 and never believe

 that an hour you remember

 is a better hour

 because it is dead. 

Passed years seem safe ones, 

vanquished ones, 

while the future lives

 in a cloud,

 formidable from a distance. ” 

                       Beryl Markham, 

                               " West with the Night "

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Sometimes

our memories are

"creative."

We walked to school

in 40 feet of snow

every day!

Summer afternoons

were centuries long;

Ice cream was sweeter.

Heck, maybe it was.

In Annie Hall

Woody Allen remembers

growing up in a house

under a roller coaster!

[You can see it HERE]

I have 

roller coaster memories 

too. . .

My high school boyfriend's

(I wrote about Carl Here)

older brother played lead guitar

in a band. After hearing me

play my flute, "Chopper"

invited me to be in the band.

We played every weekend

in a bar in Maryland.

So every weekend,

Carl and I rode the Reading Railroad

out to Mechanicsburg PA 17050.

The girl lead singer

had a house

directly across the street

from a sweet, small time

amusement park called

"Willow Mill Park" Link.

We practiced for hours 

and slept at her house,

and during our breaks

we walked across the small 

residential road

to take rides on the 

Red Streaker!

Link

That exciting name 

hardly describes

the rickety, old & small

ride we knew. Of wood,

as I recall.

Shook all the wrong notes

right out of my fingers!

Sounds like a made-up

story, a scene in a comedy,

a Fellini film,

or an outright 

bald-faced lie,
but I assure you 

it's true.

Thank YOU

 for Bellying Up

to our Tall Tale

table today!

Care to share one?

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A Saturday Critter

A  L  O  H  A !

SINGING KAHULI 

OAHU TREE SNAIL Link

“Then turn not pale, beloved snail, 

but come and join the dance.”

 Lewis Carroll

 1832-1898

Linking to Saturday Critters

Here

Thank YOU

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Remember: “By perseverance the snail reached the ark.”

 Charles H. Spurgeon 

 1834-1892)

Whatever it is you're seeking

A  L  O  H  A !

Chocolate toothbrush

Johnny Appleteen

follows the moon

in search of a queen

swallows lies

 if you know what I mean

splits the difference nicely

by

living on beans

Green Green 

A Chorus of 

G R E E N

PDVA: 

Public Display

 of Vegetal Affection

" Always be 

a first-rate version 

of yourself, instead of 

a second-rate version 

of somebody else. "

                  Judy Garland

At this rate

who ELSE

am I fit to be?!

Pixie?

" Whatever it is you're seeking

won't come 
in the form you're expecting. "
                           Haruki Murakami


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Thank YOU
for exploring the 
Wondrous Nonsense
with us today!
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