Relationship With A Peak

A  L  O  H  A !

I love the mountains behind Honolulu

Only if you have been in the 

deepest valley, can you ever 

know how magnificent it is to 

be on the highest mountain. 

                 Richard M. Nixon

Exciting to find new view planes

Wheresoever thou findest 

a high mountain or a 

lofty hill and a green tree, 

know that an idol is there! 

        Akiva ben Joseph

The peak attracts clouds,

the cloud caresses 

and nourishes the mountain.

It's a beautiful relationship!

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Best Warm Wishes!

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Best Things In Life

A  L  O  H  A !

"This is the key to life: 

To expect everything to be 

given to you from above, yet 

to be genuinely surprised and 

forever grateful, when they are. -

-Expecting all good things 

to be yours, 

while not knowing how 

to take anything for granted.- 

-If there may be a key in life, 

this is the key." 

    C. JoyBell C.

פּפּפּפּפּפּסּ

I have found this

to be a true formula

for happiness.

Wishing YOU

All The Best!

             cloudia

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Shadow Shot Sunday2

Waikiki Verticals

A  L  O  H  A !

 The yellow of your dress

dialogues, no SINGS, harmony

with the Rainbow Shower Trees!

 Fans & Lanterns are cousins

as Asia has long known.

Kites are the black sheep soaring,

riding, hiding, gliding,

serving only their own fancy.

And the slender thread.

Verticals Heretical

to some.

But Hawaiians of old

piled stone upon stone to 

height for their purposes too.

Original Verticals

of Waikiki.

Royal Groves of palms.

The Magic, the surf, and

the breezes remain.

As do these beauties!

Linking To
Sky Watch

Aloha Dear Friend!

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Your Wings

A L O H A !

Red Ti

Do all the good you can and make 

as little fuss about it as possible. 

                   Charles Dickens

That’s rule number one for 

a photographer, isn’t it? 

Fill your frame? 

        David Cronenberg

Keep away from people 

who belittle your ambitions. 

Small people always do that, 

but the really great make you feel 

that you, too, can become great.    

                    Mark Twain

Linking To

Signs

Woodpecker and Yellow Fellows

Linking To

Wild Bird Wednesday

Let Nothing

Clip Your Wings!

           Fondly, cloudia

Shine Like The Sun

A  L  O  H  A !

“Life is mostly froth and bubble;

 Two things stand like stone: 

Kindness in another's trouble,

 Courage in our own.”

        Adam Lindsay Gordon

“Those who bring sunshine 

to the lives of others cannot 

keep it from themselves”

    J. M. Barrie

Kindness has a beautiful way 

of reaching down into a 

weary heart and making it 

shine like the rising sun.

 Unknown.

“What wisdom can you find 

that is greater than kindness?”

                           Rousseau

Linking To

Our World Tuesday

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Thank YOU

Friend!

                Fondly, cloudia

Old Friends Book Ends

A  L  O  H  A !

Walking on Saturday evening 
to meet friends, I crossed 
the Kalakaua Avenue bridge.

Around me, our pocket sized 
city of Honolulu

with all the hustle and excitement

anyone could wish for - but no more.

All confined, EMBRACED! between

the rolling Pacific surf and these

glorious, forested, tropical mountains.

I in cool shadow, beheld Awaawaloa

gleaming above in the last full rays of the sun.

I came to Honolulu as an

immigrant from the continent. 
Knowing nothing but 
full of attitude! 
Working the bars, 
as a cleaning lady, as a taxi driver,

taught me this town 'mango tree mailbox'

as the old taxi driving 'uncles' used to say.

Now it is me: I know what used to be there,

 and the name before that. Through hard work, and love, and refusing to leave, 

I made this my town. Now

I am a holder of memory and culture here.

A Kupuna, a 'senior'.

I love this man's native Hawaiian features!

Being an older person here

is very different that what I

saw in my California sojourn.

Here we mix all ages, we never stop

singing, performing, telling dirty jokes,

dancing hula, and holding raffles for

some charity. Saturday night we sent off

an old friend of decades, Gladys, to live

in California with family. 

It's too common a story here. 
Folks built their whole life

and memories in the islands, 
contributed MUCH as Gladys has 
done more than most, yet 
cannot afford to remain as seniors.

I am a VERY lucky duck

that managed to return!

We honor them,

 and we do not spare

the emotion!

Gladys spoke what was on her mind,

surrounded by those she has loved.

 and been loved by for decades

Remember that the most 

valuable antiques are 

dear old friends.      

       H. Jackson Brown

Linking To

Good Random Fun

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Glad YOU

are my friend!

            Warmly, cloudia

Aloha `Oe

G did great in his first

concert on Saturday too!

Kamehameha Statue Draped With Flower Lei

A  L  O  H  A !

"Ua ola no i ka pane a ke aloha" 

There is life in a kindly reply.

                    Hawaiian Wisdom

"Ua mau ke ea o ka ʻāina i ka pono."

The life of the land is 

perpetuated in righteousness.

             Motto of Hawaii

Of course I was not the only

photographer there. This lady

on the right, was very 

intent on her subjects

"The origins of the Law of the Splintered Paddle are derived from before the unification of the Island of Hawaiʻi. In 1782 during a raid, Kamehameha caught his foot in a rock. Two local fishermen, fearful of the great warrior, hit Kamehameha hard on the head with a large paddle, which broke the paddle. Kamehameha was stunned and left for dead, allowing the fisherman and his companion to escape. Twelve years later, the same fishermen were brought before Kamehameha for punishment. The king instead blamed himself for attacking innocent people, gave the fishermen gifts of land and set them free. He declared the new law, "Let every elderly person, woman, and child lie by the roadside in safety." This influenced many subsequent humanitarian laws of war."

                      Wikipedia

Lei Draping Ceremony June 7

Parade June 8

Tuesday June 11

2019
Kamehameha I c. 1758? – May 8 or 14, 1819
 also known as Kamehameha the Great. 
His Full Hawaiian name: Kalani Paiʻea Wohi o Kaleikini Kealiʻikui Kamehameha o ʻIolani i Kaiwikapu kauʻi Ka Liholiho Kūnuiākea. 
He was the founder and first ruler 
of the Kingdom of Hawaii."
Wikipedia Link

Your behavior

Your Response

Always in your power.

Keep it kind

                        Fondly, cloudia