Here's Your Sun

Aloha!

Welcome to the Sunshine

"What, 

I sometimes wonder,

 would it be like if I lived in a country

 where winter is a matter of a few chilly days

 and a few weeks' rain;

 where the sun is never far away,

 and the flowers bloom all year long?"

Anna Neagle

("It's pretty cool, actually."
Cloudia)

Valery Ponomarev on trumpet

"The respect of those you respect

is worth more

than the applause of the multitude."

Arnold Glasow

Sean Priester

"Silent gratitude

isn't much use

to anyone."

G.B. Stern

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“Most novelties, if they last one season, it’s a lot.

 If they last two seasons, it’s a phenomenon.

 To last 35 years is unheard of.”

"Uncle" Milt Levine, 1991

"The ants' most amazing feat

was putting my three kids 

through college."

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Ant farm mogul Milton M. Levine of Uncle Milton’s Ant Farm fame

 died Jan. 16 in Thousand Oaks, Calif. at the age of 97,

 but not before selling his company for $20 million or so,

 which happens to be about a dollar for every Ant Farm ever sold.

Levine’s Eureka moment came in 1956,

 when he spotted a mound of ants during a Fourth of July picnic

 at his sister’s poolside in Southern California.

“We should make an antarium.”

Selling for $1.98,

 the original 6-by-9-inch ant farm was an immediate hit,

 soon selling thousands a week by mail order to children.

Farewell, Uncle Milt!

(Thanks to the New York Time)

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Thanks for keeping your magnifying glass

in your pocket.

Thanks for visiting today!

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Limbo

A L O H A!

"Nurture your mind

with Great Thoughts."

Disraeli

Malia Obama and her Dad get Shave Ice.

Imagine how that little kid feels to be so warmly embraced

by the First Daughter! It is spontaneous moments that show our

true nature.

 Photos of Obamas, Courtesy of SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images 

@ Huffington Post

The Famous Smile,





We ALL eat our Shave Ice one slurp at a time :)





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><}}(°>                                                     <°)}}><   The time between Christmas & New Years is a sort of Limbo, neither 'here' nor 'there'
not quite this year - but not yet next year either.

I got lost in limbo.

That's my story (excuse) and I'm sticking to it!

  SORRY to be "un-posted" for so many days without explanation or excuse.

  We have not sunk,

though we are submerged in the mind-scatter that accompanies this 'special' time of year

and Vog for too many hazy, 'Kona' days.

Add in the rainy rain

and the husband home from work for an extra day. . .

What was I saying?

Sorry too for the Pineapple Express of moist, rain-to-snow weather we sent your way on the Continent :(

Tonight there will be a professional American football game played on a Tuesday night for the first time since 1942.

I suggest that you stare at that, or some equivalent mindless amusement (sorry football fans. Not really.)

I'm sure glad that you chose to look in on THIS

mindless amusement!

Just think of all the stranded travelers

who long to sit

hand in pants

relaxing at home!

Thanks for your dear visit!

How/What have YOU been up to?

Please tell me in your comment-

Now here's a little song to make it up to you. . .

 cloudia