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Friday, February 5, 2016
Steady and Fierce
A L O H A !
“If the full moon loves you,
why worry about the stars?”
Tunisian Proverb
"Be steady and well-ordered
in your life so that you
can be fierce and original
in your work. "
Flaubert
California Rainbow
"Let your workings
remain a mystery.
Just show people
the results."
Lao-Tzu
why worry about the stars?”
Tunisian Proverb
Each of YOU
is a moon
in my sky!
Thursday, February 4, 2016
Here Be Dragons
A L O H A !
Dragons Arriving for Chinese New Year
Gung Xi Fa Cai!
" Happiness often sneaks in
through a door you didn't
know you left open. "
John Barrymore
" The soul always knows
what to do to heal itself.
The challenge is
to silence the mind. "
Caroline Myss
"Still round the corner
there may wait, A new
road or a secret gate."
J. R. R. Tolkien
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Wednesday, February 3, 2016
A Soul Awake
A L O H A !
The greatest wealth is health.
Virgil
"Until we stop harming
all other living beings,
we are still savages."
Thomas Edison
“Hope is the dream
of a soul awake.”
French Proverb
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Tuesday, February 2, 2016
Father of the Aloha Shirt
Ellery J. Chun gave the aloha shirt to the world.
Although he first created aloha shirts in 1931,
it was in 1936 he introduced the "Aloha Shirt"
label to the distinctively bright, colorful
Hawaiian attire. The term and
the style caught on,
and countless clothing manufacturers
followed suit.
Chun first sold aloha shirts -
- originally inspired by
palaka garments of plantation workers
and silk shirts
of high school classmates
sewn from leftover kimono
material by Japanese housekeepers --
at the family store, which he renamed
King-Smith Clothiers, 36 N. King St.
The Honolulu native graduated from Punahou
[ Like president Obama] in 1927 and majored in
economics at Yale, class of 1931.
By 1933, he began to produce
ready-to-wear patterns
from cloth imported from
the U.S. mainland, Japan,
China and Tahiti. Surfers
and beachboys snapped up
the bold, breezy styles,
and visiting Hollywood celebrities
and other rich and famous ones
began sailing home to
display the new fashions.
In 1991, the state Senate
honored Chun for creating
the aloha shirt, on the 60th anniversary
of his landmark contribution to distinctive
Hawaiian apparel and the state of Hawaii.
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