tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84299652110441002522024-03-13T19:23:06.728-07:00Short on WordsSkellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11021374799688814697noreply@blogger.comBlogger1773125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8429965211044100252.post-76091372692541627102019-01-02T14:44:00.001-08:002019-01-02T14:45:16.475-08:002018: in 1 & 1.5 second glimpses<center>
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temporary post until Big Dude adds music.Skellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11021374799688814697noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8429965211044100252.post-72290912740687491242018-08-11T06:30:00.000-07:002018-08-11T06:30:08.134-07:001 Second Everyday: January thru July 2018Better late than never, eh? 1 or 2 seconds everyday, minus a few days.<br />
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<br />Skellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11021374799688814697noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8429965211044100252.post-18668935906088077522018-08-10T06:00:00.000-07:002018-08-10T06:00:09.785-07:00Meanwhile, back in SoCal ... FIRE!They called the flood in Kauai the "100 Year Flood". In our neighborhood, they called this the "100 Year Fire" (not because of size or scope, but because our canyon hadn't burned in 100 years). Our canyon probably could have resisted natural catastrophe even longer if not for some kid playing with fire.<br />
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View from our backyard, 1:30pm, June 2. (note: all pics iPhone)<br />
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The morning after ... what the hills looked like (a little charred and fire-retardant-red). </div>
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And what our streets looked like (a constant - WELCOME - parade of firetrucks).</div>
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One week after the fire. The canyon was re-opened to hikers, bikers, etc. I was so happy to see the old historic ranch fencing still stood!</div>
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Anywhooo, summary story: kids playing with fire in dry canyon = bad. Firefighters = awesome.</div>
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<br />Skellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11021374799688814697noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8429965211044100252.post-72368864571815433422018-08-08T09:37:00.000-07:002018-08-08T09:37:00.517-07:00Huali Lani Komohana, May 2018 miscellany continued...Lots of batten. And still lots of cute purple weeds.<br />
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Bullfrogs hide in our buffalo grass. Hopefully they're smart enough to move out of the way before the mowers or weedwhackers whack them. Because, it's not like we can see them if they're tucked in.<br />
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<br />Skellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11021374799688814697noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8429965211044100252.post-29113398548720298352018-08-07T09:11:00.000-07:002018-08-07T09:11:03.246-07:00Huali Lani Komohana, May 2018, DRIVEWAY REPAIRThe picture directly below is our driveway in March (the debris on the side is our other neighbors'; they clearcut a bunch of guava trees). Anywhoo, nice whimsical jungle-y intact driveway.<br />
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Then the flood happened. A "rain bomb". 48" in 24 hours. No prediction for heavy rain. It just kept pouring. The waterfalls poured right over our road, caused landslides, destroyed a couple homes, and wiped out portions of the road and a few driveways, including ours. Below is our driveway after the flood. All the exposing conduit is for electrical lines. What a mess! </div>
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All our fill dirt, concrete & asphalt fill, and gravel washed into our neighbors' field. We had to collect and carry out all that washed away concrete and asphalt. What a workout! Crossfit Kauai style.<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RYWMraH4z8I/W2e5gfBAGvI/AAAAAAAAeRE/PIKJKku0YvAMNlP308w2ujnUlEE7ciu8wCLcBGAs/s1600/driveway%2Brepair-4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RYWMraH4z8I/W2e5gfBAGvI/AAAAAAAAeRE/PIKJKku0YvAMNlP308w2ujnUlEE7ciu8wCLcBGAs/s1600/driveway%2Brepair-4.jpg" /></a></div>
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Ok. This is the Engineers getting all nerdy again. Big Dude has been dying to use straps with the Jeep. If I had a dollar for every time he's told me he's needs a winch for that car ... Below, the plan is to use the Jeep and strap and crowbar (as a lever) to move a HUGE boulder into proper position.</div>
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So this is pretty much what the driveway looked like at the end of our time here in May. Our "manual" labor tasks were to recover all the concrete and asphalt, untangle the conduit, brace all the conduit, and in general, get everything ready for when local landslide dirt could be delivered to us and spread down the driveway with a bulldozer. Such a huge job. Days and hours of labor and not feeling like we had much to show for it. </div>
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The first load of landslide dirt delivered (woot!).</div>
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And the "after" picture of the field now that we've removed the bulk of the concrete and asphalt pieces. </div>
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Big Dude's new <strike>toy</strike> tool. Assembled and ready-to-go.</div>
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These tiny purple flowers may be pretty, but they're an invasive weed. WHACK.<br />
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SCADS of Mowing. Note: mower always needs battery jump-started...</div>
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Exploring. The flood moved around a bunch of boulders, sent all kinds of debris downstream, and cleared the banks of plants. (bonus for us: no need to whack path back)</div>
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Giant Albezia tree downed.</div>
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A brief ... ever so brief ... walk out to the pier before jumping back into the evening convoy line (the evening convoy is the only "short loop" roundtrip into Hanalei for quickie grocery runs, 80min). The first couple weeks after the flood, there was no ocean under the pier because so much silt had washed out onto the beach from the river. Even in May, the water level at the end of the pier was too shallow to jump off the pier and into the water.</div>
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tbc ...Skellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11021374799688814697noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8429965211044100252.post-55552048122208482972018-08-05T15:02:00.002-07:002018-08-05T15:49:08.277-07:00Huali Lani Komohana, April 2018, BRIDGE REPAIRWarning: this blog post is mostly history-keeping for me. The details will likely be tedious for anyone else :-}.<br />
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The precis version: we started rebuilding our bridge. The flood happened. We finished the bridge. <br />
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When we bought our property in Kauai, we knew there were a couple really "big ticket" items that were going to require additional $$$$: one of those items was this 70' bridge by which we and our immediate neighbor access our property. Quite simply, the wood of the bridge was significantly rotted and needed to be replaced ASAP. "ASAP" ended up being about a year after we closed escrow.<br />
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General Timeline: we ordered all the wood beams in December 2017 from a company in Washington. Approximately 3 months to prepare wood and ship. Wood arrived in Honolulu the end of March, and arrived Nawiliwili Port in Kauai the first week of April 2018. Transport from the port to the Princeville side of the Hanalei Bridge was a pretty straightforward hauling of the entirety of the wood via Semi-truck.<br />
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From the Hanalei Bridge to our property was a much trickier venture. From that point there are severe weight limitations on the road and over the 7 single lane bridges. From the Hanalei Bridge, the wood was carried 2-3 beams at a time by pick-up-trucks with trailers, like 15 roundtrips for the 45 beams. All wood arrived at our property by April 6. Work on our bridge commenced April 9. The general plan was to replace 1/3 of the bridge each week, along with painting of steel I-beams below wood.<br />
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(all construction pics courtesy of my neighbor)<br />
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Evidence above and below of rot ...Plants growing out of the beams like they're in fertile soil. Oy.<br />
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Temporarily bolting down before weekend construction break. (permanent bolting happens when curb beam installed).<a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-12EeeYX8-iw/W2djFcYSQmI/AAAAAAAAeG0/zsltUrltV2IuPQzkqFHSsg56AQt818asgCLcBGAs/s1600/bridge%2Brepair-12.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-12EeeYX8-iw/W2djFcYSQmI/AAAAAAAAeG0/zsltUrltV2IuPQzkqFHSsg56AQt818asgCLcBGAs/s1600/bridge%2Brepair-12.jpg" /></a></div>
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And this is what Saturday April 14 looked like. The beginning of the 24-hour period that saw 48" of rain fall. The Big Flood. So many things to be grateful about. Our wood wasn't still stuck on the other side of the Hanalei Bridge - with no way now to be transported, as the entire North Shore Highway is shut down with landslides and portions of the highway eroded away. The bridge beams were bolted down and didn't wash away. The other beams and wearing-surface planks were not damaged or lost. Both our (ours and our neighbors') homes were fine, undamaged by the rising waters.<a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-t9yJvcxWLWU/W2djGe9iH3I/AAAAAAAAeHI/kKDDQNmLs9QnyQ-pnM0nW0z6jGnrW5DUgCLcBGAs/s1600/bridge%2Brepair-15.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-t9yJvcxWLWU/W2djGe9iH3I/AAAAAAAAeHI/kKDDQNmLs9QnyQ-pnM0nW0z6jGnrW5DUgCLcBGAs/s1600/bridge%2Brepair-15.jpg" /></a></div>
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This raging waterfall-river flowing across the road dramatically (and expensively) wiped out our driveway overnight, but left this pile of planks alone. Grateful, grateful.<br />
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The pics from here on out are my own. Here's the old rotted bridge wood, stacked in our front yard. Notice the abundant plant life!! oy. This is now mid May. Time to get busy. Lots of clean-up...<a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/--V1Law6b068/W2dnHApUuHI/AAAAAAAAeIQ/YkkLgQLBzjYkDuqbhgk1T6vrXPJeUBskACLcBGAs/s1600/bridge%2Brepair-23.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/--V1Law6b068/W2dnHApUuHI/AAAAAAAAeIQ/YkkLgQLBzjYkDuqbhgk1T6vrXPJeUBskACLcBGAs/s1600/bridge%2Brepair-23.jpg" /></a></div>
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Also in the grateful column, our contractor is a North Shore resident who still had access to our neighborhood despite the limited access highway. Since our driveway was blown out and driving access to our properties was cut off, the new bridge plan became to tear out and replace the last 2/3 beams at one go. Work re-commenced mid-May.<br />
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This section of the river is actually a "tail-race" whose flow can be controlled by the powerplant up the road. Here it's considerably shut down. Which was super helpful in terms of accessing the bottom portion of our beams for painting.</div>
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This is "the plank" (about 40') we needed to walk over with all our luggage and groceries and various Home Depot project pieces for a few days before all the beams were laid. That was a whole lot of fun?</div>
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New wood (foreground), old wood (background).<br />
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And that was the bridge status on the day we left. Our construction crew were rockstars!!<br />
<br />Skellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11021374799688814697noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8429965211044100252.post-24210080888181726112018-07-05T17:26:00.001-07:002018-07-05T17:31:03.710-07:00Easter on the Rocks ...Joshua Tree rocks, that is. Family came to town and we met up at our favorite playground. Dog Dude came along for the fun, but even though it was pleasantly in the 80s, he doggedly pursued every spot of shade he could find, no matter how slim a sliver. It's hard to be a big black dog in the bright sun. (Middle Dude and I missed the memo about the dress code being black and white ...)<br />
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Always love the layers of mountains on the horizon on the drive home ...<a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-rlCxWfBlrTg/Wz62XeYgjtI/AAAAAAAAeEk/9v80vDqzexAnC6PkXDFC3KTMWRoHpzhngCLcBGAs/s1600/joshua%2Btree-43.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-rlCxWfBlrTg/Wz62XeYgjtI/AAAAAAAAeEk/9v80vDqzexAnC6PkXDFC3KTMWRoHpzhngCLcBGAs/s1600/joshua%2Btree-43.jpg" /></a></div>
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The time in between when we all get the luxury of hanging out together is way too long. This day of playing together in the desert was truly a treat!<br />
<br />Skellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11021374799688814697noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8429965211044100252.post-5756450038955990612018-05-30T12:02:00.000-07:002018-05-30T14:47:31.748-07:00in other news ... iphoneographyOn New Year's Eve, my LG G4 phone/camera died a sudden, horrible, badly-timed death. Badly timed as in right-immediately-after-I-compiled-my-2017-1SE-video-slideshow and *before* I uploaded to my computer. Badly timed as in no other phones were remotely running a "sale" on Jan 1st, so it was an expensive time for my phone to die.
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I ended up replacing my LG G4 with an iPhone 7+. I have a like-Hate relationship with it (the camera firstly, the phone as a whole secondly).</div>
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I like ... that it takes pretty pictures.</div>
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I like ... that the video snippets work seamlessly and easily with 1SE app.</div>
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I LOVE ... the frame-by-frame viewing capability of videos.</div>
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I like ... having two camera focal lengths.</div>
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I like ... having airdrop to share pictures with other iPhoners in close proximity.</div>
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I dislike ... that it does weird things with skin tones.</div>
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I dislike ... that it doesn't really let me shoot macro (except by cropping afterwards or adding aftermarket lens).</div>
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I HATE ... the 4:3 aspect ratio.</div>
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I HATE ... that there's no easy way to file share with my family, who have not-iPhones.</div>
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I hate ... that the camera roll chronology scrolling is opposite all other phone camera rolls.</div>
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I HATE ... that iPhone forces me into its proprietary picture file folder structure (ie. ppl, places, portrait, etc.). </div>
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I Hate ... that I have to scroll past iPhone's meaningless file folder categories to get to the file folders I actually create and use.<br />
I HATE ... that iPhone picture file folders can't be deleted or moved.</div>
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I hate ... that I can't move pictures from (*and out of*) the camera roll into other files I create.</div>
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I HATE-ABHOR-DESPISE ... the very complicated and un-user-friendly process to upload pictures from my iPhone to my PC computer.</div>
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Conclusion: I hope my iPhone lasts a good long time. Because it was expensive. But when it does die, I will NOT be replacing it with another iPhone.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14px;"><br />"After all, what can a first impression tell us about someone we’ve just met for a minute in the lobby of a hotel? For that matter, what can a first impression tell us about anyone? Why, no more than a chord can tell us about Beethoven, or a brushstroke about Botticelli. By their very nature, human beings are so capricious, so complex, so delightfully contradictory, that they deserve not only our consideration, but our reconsideration—and our unwavering determination to withhold our opinion until we have engaged with them in every possible setting at every possible hour.” </span><br />
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<i>Little French Girl</i> by Anne Douglas Sedgwick - (bookclub) This was my 3rd time reading LFG. It remains one of my favorite books. </div>
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<i>Howards End</i> by E.M. Forster (<a href="https://www.circeinstitute.org/podcast/howards-end-chapters-1-5" target="_blank">Close Reads bookclub</a>) - I quite enjoyed portions of this novel and I quite snoozed through portions of this novel. It is rumored that the Schlegel Sisters are based upon the true-life Stephen Sisters (Virginia Woolf...), though Forster claims, unconvincingly, that they're not. Virginia Woolf has <a href="http://www.berfrois.com/2015/01/virginia-woolf-e-m-forster/" target="_blank">intriguing critique</a> on Forster's works - she and he were contemporaries (both part of Bloomsbury Literary Group) and acquaintances/friends - and <a href="http://www.berfrois.com/2015/01/virginia-woolfs-times-andre-gerard/" target="_blank">she co-opted Howards End</a> into her own novel, <i>To the Lighthouse</i>. So I think my biggest appreciation of <i>Howards End</i> is going to be as a door into Woolf's story.<br />
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<i>The Austen Escape</i> by Katherine Reay - (library) <span style="background-color: white; color: #484848; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">this book was filled with cardboard characters, simplistic verbiage and
all kinds of necessary (for me) suspension-of-disbelief.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #484848; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #484848; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">T'was “meh”.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #484848; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">
</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #484848; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">But I finished it in 2 days.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #484848; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #484848; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">So,
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #484848; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><i>A Man Called Ove</i> by Fredrik Backman - The reluctant hero, the cantankerous neighbor, the man with a "heart too big." Britt-Marie remains my favorite Backman book, but Ove is a close second. </span><br />
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<i>A Gentleman in Moscow</i> by Amor Towles - just delightful. Gentleman, indeed. Probably end up being my favorite from this year.<br />
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<i>Mansfield Park</i> by Jane Austen – (bookclub) I've now officially read the complete oeuvre of Jane Austen. Mansfield Park is my last and latest. Here's how I personally rank them: <i>Pride & Prejudice</i>><i>Emma</i>><i>Lady Susan</i>=<i>Sense & Sensibility</i>>all the rest. <i>P&P</i> is one of my top-5-forever-favorites. I have a love-dislike relationship with Jane Austen. <i>Mansfield Park</i> seemed to me to be a wordy version of Cinderella filled with characters that were all not-quite-likeable, and just glimpses here and there of Austen's fierce wit. Reading it was just a slog.<br />
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<span style="color: black;"><i>A Wrinkle in Time</i> by Madeline L'Engle - I must have read this as a child, but I don't remember it at all. It must not have resonated with me then, just as it didn't resonate with me now. I know L'Engle is highly regarded, but it's hard for me to fathom that all that acclaim comes from this book. Maybe the series ...? I'll never know, because I don't intend to read more.</span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><i><br />Everything I Never Told You </i>by Celeste Ng - I read thru the
first 77 pages before deciding I didn't really care about any of the characters.
I skimmed/skipped til the end. This book just wasn't my cuppa. </span></div>
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<i>Eleanor
Oliphant is Completely Fine</i> by Gail Honeyman (library) - similar to <i>The Rosie
Project</i> and <i>Britt-Marie Was Here</i>, you the reader are in the head of an
unreliable narrator whose account of events is filtered thru un-self-aware
eyes. I liberally skimmed <i>Eleanor, </i>as it lacked the charm of Rosie and Britt-Marie. It was just an ok pageturner for me.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>True Grit</i> by Charles Portis - (Close Reads bookclub/podcast) a reread. Just as good the second time through.<br />
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<i><span style="background: white; color: #484848; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">Bear Town by </span></i><span style="background: white; color: #484848; font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Fredrik Backman – (library) Fredrik Backman wrings your heart. That’s what he does in his writing. That said, in <i>Bear Town</i>, he’s trying
to wring my heart against the backdrop of the “needs” of a sports team (and by
extension, the hoped-for revived economy of a town) vs the cries for justice
from a raped 15yo. He exposes the
varying motivations of his 385 broken characters (I exaggerate. but not by
much.) as they choose “sides”. In a
couple different places, one of the voices of reason claims that “This town
doesn’t always know the difference between right and wrong … But we know the
difference between good and evil.” And
see, as an Enneagram One-er, I personally don’t see shades of gray between
wrong & evil and right & good; my heart could not be wrung effectively in this book. Because a girl
was raped. And it doesn’t matter what
one’s motivation is; in my humble opinion, it will never be ok to turn a blind
eye to what you know is true of evil perpetrated. So this book was just a huge exercise in
frustration for me. My ranking of
Backman’s novels: Britt-Marie>Ove>Grandma>Bear
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<i>A Picture of Dorian Gray</i> by Oscar Wilde - (bookclub) <i>Dorian</i> is Wilde's homage to aestheticism; he even has an entire "introduction" dedicated to explaining to the reader "art for art's sake." But goshdarnit, if I don't think he failed in his expressed goal. I think it's quite impossible to read his story as anything BUT a moralistic warning against the excesses of unfettered hedonism. Books reveal much about their authors, and <i>Dorian</i>, I think, reveals much of Wilde's self-loathing due to his own struggles with sin. Pair this story with Wilde's short story <a href="http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/lehre/pmo/eng/Wilde-Giant.pdf" target="_blank">The Selfish Giant</a>, and consider a fuller picture of the oft stereotyped Oscar Wilde.<br />
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<i>Galapagos</i> by Kurt Vonnegut - Big Dude loved this book. So I read it, too. It's Vonnegut, so of course, it's all kinds of weird and quirky and darkly witty and brilliantly written and just a wee bit confusing at times - it's a sort of modern Noah's Ark narrative written from a million years in the future, flashing back to the events and characters of the apocalypse. I tend to miss the "big picture" in pursuit of the small puzzle pieces; so I got kinda hung up on not knowing who the narrator was for the first 220 pages. Turns out it totally didn't matter to the story. (Ghost Leon Trout, son of Kilgore Trout, just in case you wondered). Big Dude, on the other hand, *is* a "big picture" kind of guy, so he totally picked up on this being Vonnegut thumbing his nose at Darwin. Now that I think about it, the way Big Dude and I differed in our approach to this book is much like how we approach life at large. I'm glad I have him to supply me with the simple summaries of "big picture". :-)<br />
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This trip's goals were to complete paint, to install more batten, and to complete pressure-washing the roof. And, I think, we actually had 2 days of sun. Or maybe just 2 half-days. So, we got *some* painting done. And not much batten. But rain doesn't put the kabosh on weed-whacking, and since other projects were put on hold, we finally attacked a bigger section of a corner of our yard with beautiful rock walls that are completely obliterated by tall, out-of-control, buffalo grass. </div>
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Look closely: a cardinal and his bevy of beauties ...</div>
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Love how the sunrise spills down the ridge ...</div>
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When we leave Kauai, we wonder what will be overgrown by the time we come back.<a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-I5qNxfgnyd0/WwyCYH4GToI/AAAAAAAAd88/4FhyY9D183cg0JcVP5bdI5OyVUalEjuPACLcBGAs/s1600/kauaimar-15.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-I5qNxfgnyd0/WwyCYH4GToI/AAAAAAAAd88/4FhyY9D183cg0JcVP5bdI5OyVUalEjuPACLcBGAs/s1600/kauaimar-15.jpg" /></a></div>
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When Big Dude wasn't on the roof, or in the field, he was building this neato monkeypod table.<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZdJ9ZGEbfsc/WwyEPSGspTI/AAAAAAAAd-8/X2WIESGP-U0oG0XmhchUmI4qoQvUrKDqgCLcBGAs/s1600/kauaimar-31.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZdJ9ZGEbfsc/WwyEPSGspTI/AAAAAAAAd-8/X2WIESGP-U0oG0XmhchUmI4qoQvUrKDqgCLcBGAs/s1600/kauaimar-31.jpg" /></a></div>
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I'm blogging this months after the fact.</div>
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These are the pictures I took as we left.</div>
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All these pieces will be different next time we return.</div>
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The bridge will be torn apart and be in the midst of rebuilding.<br />(a project that has been months in the planning stages)</div>
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The neighbor's field will be covered in rocks, boulders, cement and asphalt debris.</div>
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Our driveway will be washed away and undrive-able.</div>
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The hillsides along the highway will be long-term altered by massive landslides.</div>
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Skellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11021374799688814697noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8429965211044100252.post-20199642637766612682018-05-26T11:32:00.000-07:002018-05-28T12:34:57.612-07:00Huali Lani Komohana, Jan/Feb 2018This was the trip we planned to mostly get the painting of the exterior house done, along with the installing of some batten (as in board and batten), and the finishing of the porch cable railing. Since we only had about 2.5 hours of sunshine the whole trip, our painting was mostly confined to the covered porch area. My handy-dandy father-in-law finished the cabling and my green-thumb-gardener-extraordinaire mother-in-law tended our yard (she also brought a nifty cleaning cloth and made the house interior sparkle as it hasn't done since we've occupied it!!). We managed to fit some fun and sightseeing in between all the projects.
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Note above: we have exactly one windowsill that gets 1-2 bars of internet. It's a popular hangout :-). The other popular hangout (when there aren't mosquitos): the hammock.</div>
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Below, our porch is so pretty and clean and uncluttered when we arrive. <br />And then it quickly becomes the holding zone for all the project and yard tools ...</div>
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Getting ready to make a bunch of sawdust...</div>
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Limahuli Gardens was our one must-do, and only-planned activity for this trip. <br />But it kept raining everyday. And we kept waiting for a clear opportunity to head over for a couple hours. It came down to the last possible day, which looked like it might or might not rain. <br />We grabbed our umbrellas and headed over. It's SO BEAUTIFUL. <a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6eUASKpDop8/WwxHMGtzRII/AAAAAAAAd6Q/mEUcRFr1yNUrMTMyiFeaabjomQ5qNAVHgCLcBGAs/s1600/kauaijan-12.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6eUASKpDop8/WwxHMGtzRII/AAAAAAAAd6Q/mEUcRFr1yNUrMTMyiFeaabjomQ5qNAVHgCLcBGAs/s1600/kauaijan-12.jpg" /></a></div>
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<i>Never Let Me Go</i> by Kazuo Ishiguro - You know how some authors emotionally manipulate you, the reader, and steamroll you with their intended message/moral/purpose? Kazuo Ishiguro is <b>not</b> that author. He's asking super huge questions in this book: What does it mean to be Human? What is the purpose of Art and Education? What gives Life Meaning? But he's subtly asking all these questions thru the easy-breazy, emotively dead-pan, chatty reminiscences of his first-person narrator, Kathy. And she doesn't tell you what to think. She just tells you what she remembers happened. Kazuo Ishiguro lets the shear horror of the inhumanity itself steamroll you. Good book, thoughtful book. Thoroughly Modern in writing style. Dystopian, yes. Interesting to read this after so recently viewing Remains of the Day (movie) and see KI style similarities (slow pace, emotionally repressive narration, big questions, memories, perceptions ..)<br />
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<i>Purgatorio</i> by Dante Aliguieri (bookclub) - ok, so poetry continues not to be my love language, Dante is still name-dropping in <i>Purgatorio</i>, and I'm still feeling over-my-head and lacking understanding. But I can tell that if I were in the tutelage of someone who knew and understood the depths of Dante, I would probably quite appreciate his trilogy a great deal more. As it is, I get small tastes of his brilliance ... like how <i>Inferno</i> and <i>Purgatorio</i> fit together and provide at times the "flip side of the coin" to each other ... in the <i>Inferno</i> sinners are punished by repeating endlessly the sin they gave themselves over to in life; in <i>Purgatorio</i>, sinners are punished with an equal-and-opposite act to their sin committed in life. Anywhoo, on to <i>Paradise</i>...<br />
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<i>Poisonwood Bible</i> by Barbara Kingsolver - Barbara Kingsolver is one of my favorite contemporary writers. I first read this novel when it was published nearly two decades ago. I liked it then, and I like it now; which is saying a lot, because the subject matter is messy, sad, devastating: a zealous missionary pastor moving to the Congo, dragging his family along, and doing every thing that he does with little (or none) love and a whole lot of misapplied scripture. The story is told thru the first person narratives of the five women in his family. Each voice is fabulously individual. I couldn't stop turning pages, til I got nearly to the end, when the adult voices of the grown daughters became more philosophical and less story-driven. The end fizzles for me. But the rest? Sooo good.<br />
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<i>The Girl Who Drank the Moon</i> by Kelly Barnhill - (library ebook) I quite enjoyed this fairytale/magic story. I neglected more pressing matters to page-turn to the end.<br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">My Mother’s Shadow</span></i><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> by Nikola Scott – (pre-publishing-date
Kindle book) interesting story that kept my attention. The writing/style/theme seemed to me
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">One Summer</span></i><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> by David Baldacci – (library
ebook) I was browsing OC’s e-library for available titles (pickings were slim)
when I came across this Baldacci book. I
haven’t read one of his novels since <i>Wish
You Well</i> (which I remember quite liking).
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">The Witch’s Boy</span></i><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> by Kelly Barnhill – (library
ebook) the elements that made <i>The Girl Who Drank the Moon</i> good are all
present in this story, also. That said,
this story seemed just a little too similar to the other; I preferred the
former. And a nit-picky criticism: this
book was nonstop peril from nearly the first page to the last (irritating to
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><i>My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry</i> by Fredrik Backman - (library) </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Equal parts heart-rendingly precious and totally
annoying. Strange 1st/3rd person [7yo girl] narrator effect. All things
considered, glad i read til the end. It's kind of a Marvel comics mashup
with "it takes a village" philosophy. It's a book that begs you to *see* people.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>The Best of Adam Sharp</i> by Graeme Simsion - (library) Same
author as <i>The Rosie Project</i>, a book I loved so much that I talked 3 Keller
dudes into reading it. They loved it (Rosie) too. This book had none of
the Rosie books' charms. I gave it 50pp, quit, and promptly returned it
to the library. Blech, phtooey.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Echo</i> by Pam Munoz Ryan - (library ebook) YA fiction. Fairly engaging; I finished it in a day. Three loosely overlapping WWII narratives that each end abruptly and collide at end of book. The last narrative had me running to the internets to research education segregation in Southern California in the 1930s & 40s. Turns out the 3rd narrative is prettily heavily based on the <a href="http://www.latimes.com/socal/weekend/news/tn-wknd-et-0417-sylvia-mendez-70-anniversary-20160417-story.html" target="_blank">Mendez family and their participation in a class action suit against the public schools.</a> Fascinating.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Britt-Marie was Here</i> by Fredrik Backman - (library) I LOVE THIS BOOK TO THE MOON AND BACK. Amen. It reminds me in many ways of The Rosie Project. The narration is genius. And soooo funny. And so heart-full. I almost didn't read this, because Britt-Marie was a bit character in <i>My Grandmother</i> - an annoying "nag-bag" busybody who pushed everybody's buttons. At the end of <i>My Grandmother</i>, she has a discussion with Elsa who asks about some poem about "</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "open sans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">an old man who says he can’t be loved, so he doesn’t mind, sort of, being disliked instead. As long as someone sees him.” Britt-Marie replies that </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "open sans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">“We want to be loved. Failing that, admired; failing that, feared; failing that, hated and despised. At all costs we want to stir up some sort of feeling in others. The soul abhors a vacuum. At all costs it longs for contact. [adding quietly] </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "open sans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">I want someone to remember I existed. I want someone to know I was here.” Britt-Marie is all about Britt-Marie finally *seeing* and being *seen* by others. It's a book that shows that a little bit of kindness is HUGE. This book makes ME want to *see* others better. Truly, I laughed and cried my way through this book. I was sad when it ended. Hands down, my favorite book this year.</span><br />
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(bookclub) - A re-read for me. Still great. I think I want to work
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While <i>The Language of Flowers</i> is on my<a href="http://shortonwords.blogspot.com/2007/11/books-i-love.html" target="_blank"> favorites list</a>, this
novel was just ok for me. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />Skellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11021374799688814697noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8429965211044100252.post-86110263708465647002017-11-30T21:39:00.000-08:002017-11-30T21:39:32.923-08:00Beautiful Life :: Orange County Lifestyle Photography<b>Quiddity. n.</b> the quality that makes a thing what it is, the inherent nature or essence of someone or something,"whatness", the distinguishing nature of a thing, that which makes it what it is and not another. Quiddity. What a great word! Such a simple and profound description. Quiddity is why photographing families in their homes is my very favorite kind of photography. Quiddity is what I humbly and passionately attempt to capture every time I document a family in their home. Behold ...<br />
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<a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-BU8sBxj55_c/WiDhHotYxhI/AAAAAAAAdWs/W94ybVxdEjMgoK-j0RlQdngNR-THAhPAQCHMYCw/s1600-h/orange%2Bcounty%2Bfamily%2Blifestyle%2Bphotography-1%255B3%255D"><img alt="orange county family lifestyle photography-1" border="0" height="533" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-V9zEVybKS5E/WiDhIt1sIDI/AAAAAAAAdWw/sZ44X7UgQNMAZp0IJVPUU6Ot3Bwtn4C5gCHMYCw/orange%2Bcounty%2Bfamily%2Blifestyle%2Bphotography-1_thumb?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentcolor; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="orange county family lifestyle photography-1" width="800" /></a><br />
<a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-6lEol2RyTWA/WiDhJcNaM4I/AAAAAAAAdW0/6V7itOPbMwoI_5BRAM2Z9bNEV2qg7kOGQCHMYCw/s1600-h/orange%2Bcounty%2Bfamily%2Blifestyle%2Bphotography-2%255B3%255D"><img alt="orange county family lifestyle photography-2" border="0" height="800" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-5Rha_sgZBFY/WiDhKNIwvBI/AAAAAAAAdW4/YlfX0Hb7uGg0sJZJoC4icmHaiLC4t4D3wCHMYCw/orange%2Bcounty%2Bfamily%2Blifestyle%2Bphotography-2_thumb?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentcolor; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="orange county family lifestyle photography-2" width="800" /></a>(note: to honor privacy rules, I will not be able to show you any identifiable images of their much beloved and totally adorable foster son. But trust me, he is The Cutest Ever.)<br />
<a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-4mP6CwBpEMg/WiDhK8iFIRI/AAAAAAAAdW8/o2nnfUY21N0Uhic-9gPSxSDSvKwpuntZgCHMYCw/s1600-h/orange%2Bcounty%2Bfamily%2Blifestyle%2Bphotography-3%255B3%255D"><img alt="orange county family lifestyle photography-3" border="0" height="533" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-sMSnrSKDsBQ/WiDhLrUBAeI/AAAAAAAAdXA/Nl1LqWjxdcIcoI5r9zoNpMK3fgpiR0j_wCHMYCw/orange%2Bcounty%2Bfamily%2Blifestyle%2Bphotography-3_thumb?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentcolor; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="orange county family lifestyle photography-3" width="800" /></a><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Kdob6QxOrWA/WiDhMSd0vaI/AAAAAAAAdXE/F98f_GB96SIh2dV34MG0IxRbd2DMyaKYwCHMYCw/s1600-h/orange%2Bcounty%2Bfamily%2Blifestyle%2Bphotography-4%255B3%255D"><img alt="orange county family lifestyle photography-4" border="0" height="533" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-esM0BQVKzMk/WiDhNKHG8OI/AAAAAAAAdXI/bP80WHTAZC8DQIAKMD5borwOWmuQpksywCHMYCw/orange%2Bcounty%2Bfamily%2Blifestyle%2Bphotography-4_thumb?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentcolor; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="orange county family lifestyle photography-4" width="800" /></a><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-ryzhlbIGUYs/WiDhN18sytI/AAAAAAAAdXM/7S509nWPrj8jPKfI3VEy1f52dA2eim4iACHMYCw/s1600-h/orange%2Bcounty%2Bfamily%2Blifestyle%2Bphotography-5%255B3%255D"><img alt="orange county family lifestyle photography-5" border="0" height="533" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-BQ6Vb84wMo8/WiDhOkaEhjI/AAAAAAAAdXQ/fgCxl2hrDcQxx2YfiKsfoxbPp4bRy7s7gCHMYCw/orange%2Bcounty%2Bfamily%2Blifestyle%2Bphotography-5_thumb?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentcolor; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="orange county family lifestyle photography-5" width="800" /></a><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-C6KimwuytUU/WiDhPXrhe8I/AAAAAAAAdXU/HHUQ_Ql3MQgzDh_Py0q2dq4ZYqoNFj6LACHMYCw/s1600-h/orange%2Bcounty%2Bfamily%2Blifestyle%2Bphotography-6%255B3%255D"><img alt="orange county family lifestyle photography-6" border="0" height="533" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-KfBx39xrYhU/WiDhQWnGcuI/AAAAAAAAdXY/Ve2j7V06-WYNi8i4V3_G6tl8P8iTCXZSQCHMYCw/orange%2Bcounty%2Bfamily%2Blifestyle%2Bphotography-6_thumb?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentcolor; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="orange county family lifestyle photography-6" width="800" /></a><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Gv-xtq8ni2A/WiDhRJ2qkAI/AAAAAAAAdXc/L0AUf5p5RpoqiTOoGbxlkCUqAMWlfH9kgCHMYCw/s1600-h/orange%2Bcounty%2Bfamily%2Blifestyle%2Bphotography-7%255B3%255D"><img alt="orange county family lifestyle photography-7" border="0" height="533" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/--sGg4gteGq4/WiDhRxZ_tfI/AAAAAAAAdXg/vRGHhg7Ow5oiipWdJR94C7WyJbWvWvRDwCHMYCw/orange%2Bcounty%2Bfamily%2Blifestyle%2Bphotography-7_thumb?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentcolor; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="orange county family lifestyle photography-7" width="800" /></a><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-k_er4K7NTnU/WiDhSgo-1sI/AAAAAAAAdXk/XkqxUNSe2Vs2Dd4NWk4G4YcEvBZY_gmJgCHMYCw/s1600-h/orange%2Bcounty%2Bfamily%2Blifestyle%2Bphotography-8%255B7%255D"><img alt="orange county family lifestyle photography-8" border="0" height="533" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nY-g6_FOrOM/WiDhTV-bNCI/AAAAAAAAdXo/uYSwawcAsg4BeHMX-lVRLPXSh3cXuo5zgCHMYCw/orange%2Bcounty%2Bfamily%2Blifestyle%2Bphotography-8_thumb%255B1%255D?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentcolor; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="orange county family lifestyle photography-8" width="800" /></a><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-SEqgGa6Q86o/WiDhUPbQqmI/AAAAAAAAdXs/kmXtKntKsZkTJYxr9vwYexnVmqCw7ti-QCHMYCw/s1600-h/orange%2Bcounty%2Bfamily%2Blifestyle%2Bphotography-9%255B7%255D"><img alt="orange county family lifestyle photography-9" border="0" height="533" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-bSYKarwpR0M/WiDhU1iyqdI/AAAAAAAAdXw/dDlqxuky6l4xJbgZTsD-w-kwaHkB0YcnwCHMYCw/orange%2Bcounty%2Bfamily%2Blifestyle%2Bphotography-9_thumb%255B1%255D?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentcolor; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="orange county family lifestyle photography-9" width="800" /></a><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-bQIjeDaw4T8/WiDhVgHA2vI/AAAAAAAAdX0/wgakMNDSwAQJJwG5XXL9J9xUWxQSnINdACHMYCw/s1600-h/orange%2Bcounty%2Bfamily%2Blifestyle%2Bphotography-10%255B3%255D"><img alt="orange county family lifestyle photography-10" border="0" height="533" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-rxzYjSw5Rr8/WiDhWVC3ZwI/AAAAAAAAdX4/LnXRohgtP28yKxrTeBZg3vFDN1aiq3F2ACHMYCw/orange%2Bcounty%2Bfamily%2Blifestyle%2Bphotography-10_thumb?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentcolor; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="orange county family lifestyle photography-10" width="800" /></a><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-YiyUpmGgL5U/WiDhXHPKt8I/AAAAAAAAdX8/vTzPH8xXX8waZvMmvAmEmFJGD6uEr0hqACHMYCw/s1600-h/orange%2Bcounty%2Bfamily%2Blifestyle%2Bphotography-11%255B3%255D"><img alt="orange county family lifestyle photography-11" border="0" height="533" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Wqwuxg8uCjM/WiDhXxOTR-I/AAAAAAAAdYA/FKR79n9fJ3MBLpJqoQMrDyAx3-i22AaqwCHMYCw/orange%2Bcounty%2Bfamily%2Blifestyle%2Bphotography-11_thumb?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentcolor; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="orange county family lifestyle photography-11" width="800" /></a><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nDs_NkUgV1E/WiDhZ4TgtyI/AAAAAAAAdYE/Ga8dNWdGRG03iwpBdmCRs-u9sHOuq6JOQCHMYCw/s1600-h/orange%2Bcounty%2Bfamily%2Blifestyle%2Bphotography-12%255B3%255D"><img alt="orange county family lifestyle photography-12" border="0" height="533" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-unAD18WHMQc/WiDhankP2CI/AAAAAAAAdYI/OKQeN-VhdekOmMPkzLO9e6ftAAfuAeqmgCHMYCw/orange%2Bcounty%2Bfamily%2Blifestyle%2Bphotography-12_thumb?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentcolor; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="orange county family lifestyle photography-12" width="800" /></a><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-HtOJMT6WYH0/WiDhcinpjDI/AAAAAAAAdYM/K1AqXF2DGH4KXm1nzpzWbq-sX3Sb5V5bgCHMYCw/s1600-h/orange%2Bcounty%2Bfamily%2Blifestyle%2Bphotography-13%255B3%255D"><img alt="orange county family lifestyle photography-13" border="0" height="533" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-ZbFlsnnSgAM/WiDhdhjijhI/AAAAAAAAdYQ/IWbstm8Xe8Uwp7jXhi-AoQxqrO23JTx2QCHMYCw/orange%2Bcounty%2Bfamily%2Blifestyle%2Bphotography-13_thumb?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentcolor; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="orange county family lifestyle photography-13" width="800" /></a><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-B3I1UWAP1I0/WiDheSkblMI/AAAAAAAAdYU/Bn8WJ--I-dUK57ugyOmbftjiEk6exVd4wCHMYCw/s1600-h/orange%2Bcounty%2Bfamily%2Blifestyle%2Bphotography-14%255B3%255D"><img alt="orange county family lifestyle photography-14" border="0" height="533" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-qcGr4vuGs_0/WiDhfHZRZaI/AAAAAAAAdYY/_AD0O0me22s5yAkp2IB5fdoPeatj0EHgwCHMYCw/orange%2Bcounty%2Bfamily%2Blifestyle%2Bphotography-14_thumb?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentcolor; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="orange county family lifestyle photography-14" width="800" /></a><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-sH9EJ1OqNCY/WiDhfucoLfI/AAAAAAAAdYc/ewT7MahGqYsNKqiJfFtEgVArrDy3h5GeQCHMYCw/s1600-h/orange%2Bcounty%2Bfamily%2Blifestyle%2Bphotography-15%255B3%255D"><img alt="orange county family lifestyle photography-15" border="0" height="533" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-PFTsv7c7Uxg/WiDhhhVDQZI/AAAAAAAAdYg/5GbWWlWbOQ4w7OpOcgRlB2e-O-c-XEViwCHMYCw/orange%2Bcounty%2Bfamily%2Blifestyle%2Bphotography-15_thumb?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentcolor; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="orange county family lifestyle photography-15" width="800" /></a><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/--LyZGqdH9QE/WiDhifKFEqI/AAAAAAAAdYk/3ln8Bddua4cS8wJ_K3OpwSMxrThLZyQXACHMYCw/s1600-h/orange%2Bcounty%2Bfamily%2Blifestyle%2Bphotography-16%255B3%255D"><img alt="orange county family lifestyle photography-16" border="0" height="533" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-AR_tdbIcmms/WiDhi1IC3yI/AAAAAAAAdYo/0HfiMfQbM6EKTid099wH3JTpldGmpppCACHMYCw/orange%2Bcounty%2Bfamily%2Blifestyle%2Bphotography-16_thumb?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; 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Quiddity. Oh my. These guys melt me. They love well and deeply and abundantly. And I'm so blessed to call them Friends.Skellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11021374799688814697noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8429965211044100252.post-42043718059043245042017-11-09T08:41:00.000-08:002017-11-09T08:41:27.353-08:00Beautiful Senior Session :: Orange County PhotographerI think I've decided that having two bestie Seniors splitting a session is a pretty fantastic idea. Sarah and Rylie have such a sweet friendship, filled with encouragement, easy laughter, and understanding. It was PURE JOY for me to enter into their camaraderie for an afternoon, create Senior portraits, and photographically document their friendship.<br />
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color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 17px;"><b>"In almost every major literature there are works that make you love being human, and make you love and revere the humanity of other people. That is the great potential of any art." ~Marilynne Robinson</b></span><br />
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<span class="textexposedshow"><i><span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Anne of Avonlea, Anne
of the Island, Anne of Windy Poplars, Anne’s House of Dreams, Anne of Ingleside</span></i></span><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;"> by L.M. Montgomery – continuing my
escape-from-the-world fluffy reading … sooooo, none of these is the classic
that the first in the series is, and I don’t think I’m likely to reread these
(for me, for the “fun of it”). I found
myself skimming liberally, because LMM creates tons of characters and tells
oodles of vignettes - many of which aren’t necessarily part of the main
storyline, but are more like short stories tacked on. Others of the characters continue through the
whole novel, and are developed with great pathos, never to be revisited in a
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<i>Gilead</i> (Close Reads bookclub) and <i>Home</i> and <i>Lila</i> by Marilynne Robinson - <span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">I've read <i>Gilead</i> twice in the last several years.
Despite the exquisite writing, neither time have I been enthralled by it. Gilead
reads more like personal memoirs and less like story (and I’m a girl who appreciates
plot). Plus, I just simply believe that
this isn’t my “season” to totally understand the depths of Gilead. This week I went ahead and got <i>Home</i> & <i>Lila</i> from the library. I could barely put <i>Home</i> down. *I LOVE IT.* I love [the character] Glory. <i>Home</i> throws into stark relief for me
everything that kind of bothered me about <i>Gilead</i>.
John Ames' first person letters were so veiled, so limited/narrow in detail.
Everything was foggy/unclear to me and I felt remote from all the other ch</span><span class="textexposedshow">aracters. There were too many "mysteries". Ames himself had
loftier thoughts than I could often wrap my shallow-er brain around, so he felt
remote to me, too. But reading <i>Home</i> was
revelatory, like the blinds were thrown wide open and the veils were torn.
Glory's rendering is approachably intimate. Jack is so dear, even in all his
messy-ness. And I love being back in the presence of an [almost] omniscient
narrator (which is funny for me, because usually I'm super content with first
person narrative). Lila was equally wonderful.
All three novels “puzzle-piece” together (Gilead & Home cover the
same sequence of events, but from different voices/lenses. Lila is [the character] Lila’s backstory and
serves as a prequel to the other novels.
Marilynne Robinson is a masterful writer. Her books bleed HUMANITY and
EMPATHY and HOPE. I often wonder of the books I read, which will stand the test
of time? Which will be future “classics.” I feel definitively that Robinson’s trilogy will
be a future classic.</span><br />
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<i>Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy</i> by Karen Foxlee (children's lit) - the writing in this is simple and beautiful; the opening chapter fully engrossed and enchanted me. But, in the end, I kind of feel like this story was a junior version of Narnia, without the "oomph." <br />
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<i>The Divine Comedy: The Inferno</i> by Dante Alighieri - (bookclub) I'm reading the Everyman's Library edition translated by Allen Mandelbaum and supplementing with Dorothy Sayers' notes from the Penguin Classics edition. My local bookclub is a "classics" bookclub, and this is a classic, and we are, therefore, reading it, <span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">so we’ll all be better, more informed, well-read readers. I’ve
read this once before.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Didn’t like it,
don’t remember it.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Reading it this time
(and after prepping by reading The Aeneid, because, yo, Virgil), I still don’t
much like it, and I often don’t remember the contents of a canto even after
just completing it.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Poetry, quite
simply, is not my love language.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Additionally, </span><i style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The Inferno</i><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> does a lot of name dropping
of real people hundreds (and thousands!) of years dead.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">I just feel a little bit (a lotta bit)
lost (thus, using Dorothy Sayers' notes for quickie summary of person/circumstances/sin).</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> I occasionally read a
section and thought “that’s beautiful!”</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">
</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">And I sometimes read a section and nearly snorted coffee out my nose, a
la this morning:</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">“That is Thais, the
harlot who returned/ her lover’s question, ‘Are you very grateful/ to me?’ by
saying, ‘Yes, enormously.’” (Canto 18, 8</span><sup>th</sup><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> Circle, 2</span><sup>nd</sup><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">
Pouch, Flatterers immersed in excrement … so beware your words!!)</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Dorothy Sayers’ notes about the flatterers
included this brilliant aside:</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">“these,
too, exploit others by playing upon their desires and fears; their especial
weapon is that abuse and corruption of language which destroys communication
between mind and mind … Dante did not live to see the full development of
political propaganda, commercial advertisement, and sensational journalism, but
he has prepared a place for them.”</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">On the mystery genre of literature<i> …<b> “</b></i><b>As we read, we are desperate to see Truth revealed and we
demand to see Justice enacted. We need
to see good guys rewarded and bad guys punished. Our souls cry out for Justice. And if the book fails to deliver, readers
rebel. This desire awakens the deepest
longings of our souls – for Order, for Justice, for Truth, for Goodness, for
Meaning. In a very real way, reading
mystery novels rightly orders our affections.
They cause our souls to long for all the right things.” ~Angelina Stanford</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Murder on the Orient Express </span></i><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">by Agatha Christie – (Close Reads
bookclub) Reading this whodunit directly after finishing Marilynne Robinson’s exquisitely
worded trilogy was jarring, to say the least.
The verbiage in this story (which, by the way, is ALL PLOT ALL THE TIME)
is minimal. It almost reads as if it’s a
screenplay and not a novel. You can’t
possibly solve it on your own (til Hercule Poirot fills you in on his exclusive
insider insight), so sit back and enjoy the ride. Fun page-turner. Looking forward to seeing how the new movie “translates”
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<i><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Murder in Retrospect (</span></i><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">aka<i> Five Little Pigs) </i>by Agatha Christie<i> </i>– fun, easy-reading, escapist, murder mystery.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Skellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11021374799688814697noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8429965211044100252.post-10802317680547327142017-09-23T06:00:00.000-07:002017-09-23T06:00:09.170-07:00Huali Lani Komohana, part 3Dueling weed-whackers... Work day.<br />
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You can tell from the road when surf picks up (parking lot fills up!). A big, busy shorebreak brought out the boogie & short-boarders.<br />
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Braving the mosquitos and exploring ...<br />
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border: 0px currentcolor; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="kauai-77" width="800" /></a><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-DW5vG-8l5Ug/WcRVnE2x8SI/AAAAAAAAdQE/w4aEoeS3gGQr8yYjAviyAzzgZB0ZZiHLgCHMYCw/s1600-h/kauai-78%255B3%255D"><img alt="kauai-78" border="0" height="533" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-QJk_cQI0PLU/WcRVnw5qViI/AAAAAAAAdQI/qSlvIWw8IlUnoNsyv4D70kVmthqZr2B2ACHMYCw/kauai-78_thumb?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentcolor; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="kauai-78" width="800" /></a><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-zAJDzh6860s/WcRVomhb_NI/AAAAAAAAdQM/nEOXVPoHrlIt9DDg-2q3BC7FOPNXhiVFgCHMYCw/s1600-h/kauai-79%255B3%255D"><img alt="kauai-79" border="0" height="533" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-mdwVvCIuxFY/WcRVpqg-JzI/AAAAAAAAdQQ/8fehTdDQTHE1EvnJZcpPQY2DRuLNZdEEACHMYCw/kauai-79_thumb?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentcolor; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="kauai-79" width="800" /></a><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-IeZZ-o9U0AM/WcRVq28m4WI/AAAAAAAAdQU/TIUrq4hac9kIAVa-WBHsnGTiTwKYPhPDgCHMYCw/s1600-h/kauai-80%255B3%255D"><img alt="kauai-80" border="0" height="600" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-7h-0LaRqtzM/WcRVsJdv5SI/AAAAAAAAdQY/WvIRpS4cA48Ykeqmtr4gKJ01m3z1tzIbgCHMYCw/kauai-80_thumb?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentcolor; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="kauai-80" width="800" /></a><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-uhA8oP4mS88/WcRVtFutxaI/AAAAAAAAdQc/ws8HMTwgJ40DJg4rpMq-Cu24eIJewZApgCHMYCw/s1600-h/kauai-81%255B3%255D"><img alt="kauai-81" border="0" height="533" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-VV78L63blI8/WcRVtzpJduI/AAAAAAAAdQg/PiRq6TA4t7UtWN2HAEcQecnR0DGVFjJqwCHMYCw/kauai-81_thumb?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentcolor; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="kauai-81" width="800" /></a><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-HWCurMF6smw/WcRVuloSPkI/AAAAAAAAdQk/TgbiFJ93nQYrJThj7-bWhPFUPWwEjNPnQCHMYCw/s1600-h/kauai-82%255B3%255D"><img alt="kauai-82" border="0" height="533" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-YOsP1coJkBQ/WcRVvXxF38I/AAAAAAAAdQo/8yl80Nz47pUcugdj026qu9xetTaf1CWXgCHMYCw/kauai-82_thumb?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentcolor; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="kauai-82" width="800" /></a><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-lneoYp11_aU/WcRVwJNHpiI/AAAAAAAAdQs/Rv349xb26zkr3TrXS8rvJ-SnOLWYSRltQCHMYCw/s1600-h/kauai-83%255B3%255D"><img alt="kauai-83" border="0" height="533" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-ssGfOiw8FXw/WcRVxAMW0BI/AAAAAAAAdQw/Jo3mkSbV6RwkBTEuqYF3qMB85fPyyasLgCHMYCw/kauai-83_thumb?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentcolor; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="kauai-83" width="800" /></a><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-9HJBCqcF5hE/WcRVx3qASHI/AAAAAAAAdQ0/-hbgQ8hHpdwzhxgdXY_9MsufvLZh-JLfQCHMYCw/s1600-h/kauai-84%255B3%255D"><img alt="kauai-84" border="0" height="533" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-gYwqn_lG1a8/WcRVyqffq3I/AAAAAAAAdQ4/QqyC18cwh5E7D-LUWB2yfFufmcZ8XlnygCHMYCw/kauai-84_thumb?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentcolor; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="kauai-84" width="800" /></a><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-H6AI2nKOjoc/WcRVzRidh3I/AAAAAAAAdQ8/1Hr6IzoqK6cdif-9bBTkf-1wgd4EEXeSwCHMYCw/s1600-h/kauai-85%255B3%255D"><img alt="kauai-85" border="0" height="533" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Xp1kz-JPO0g/WcRV0C948wI/AAAAAAAAdRA/rbSWUDiFx6krd-NAOqO0uEllnL2YUhVGgCHMYCw/kauai-85_thumb?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentcolor; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="kauai-85" width="800" /></a><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-fk60RibHygg/WcRV019xNpI/AAAAAAAAdRE/0PB5t59c7v0bzb43cZp2JoEWY4dY-RLCgCHMYCw/s1600-h/kauai-86%255B3%255D"><img alt="kauai-86" border="0" height="533" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-v1oBdJ32osw/WcRV1f_0GvI/AAAAAAAAdRI/1ohP0PCgFzUN5ZNY53-lUIhIOH9RK3XywCHMYCw/kauai-86_thumb?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentcolor; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="kauai-86" width="800" /></a><br />
Sadly, leaving Kauai.<br /><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-YwJOzBV4Ob4/WcRV1wjKSgI/AAAAAAAAdRM/Wy4y8uLv_UUvTTeKnSHvjzooxOGplsG5gCHMYCw/s1600-h/kauai-87%255B3%255D"><img alt="kauai-87" border="0" height="450" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-6969lai2Tuw/WcRV2fSncrI/AAAAAAAAdRQ/K49Y8RHMgYYT2JAorL3FVDHSsSS3bzahACHMYCw/kauai-87_thumb?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentcolor; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="kauai-87" width="800" /></a><br />
Arriving Honolulu.<br />
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Our next plane, with Diamond Head in the background.<br />
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Leaving Honolulu and literally flying to meet the sunset...<br />
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Natural, Escher-esque art ...<br />
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Full moon rising ...<br />
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<a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-gvbvb0DPhcU/WcRUkpF502I/AAAAAAAAdLk/OxJBXTLv4jsH-gchc6XNOvHekM0JWuBTACHMYCw/s1600-h/kauai-41%255B3%255D"><img alt="kauai-41" border="0" height="450" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-KvBq6X-75kA/WcRUlAw-23I/AAAAAAAAdLo/hU5ub-OPbGsNJHTtDXC8nUnGfNRMz3WyQCHMYCw/kauai-41_thumb?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentcolor; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="kauai-41" width="800" /></a><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-d6tYh9Zf4jg/WcRUlqYR73I/AAAAAAAAdLs/cSCtPyt1J0siS37CyzLbKRFr6evkJc-LACHMYCw/s1600-h/kauai-42%255B3%255D"><img alt="kauai-42" border="0" height="450" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-vaENAyKjcbM/WcRUmL4rcqI/AAAAAAAAdLw/2oR5rnQYuLcDEOT79pkiAn_9TxuiAqA_gCHMYCw/kauai-42_thumb?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentcolor; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="kauai-42" width="800" /></a><br />
Dual-ing computers ... Little Dude in Great Books class, Big Dude working. Internet? Tenuous.<br />
<br /><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-6aQ49pM-oFY/WcRUmruGCaI/AAAAAAAAdL0/1e4VQa7x8Bgppn705-0kMj_avoOGGXI1gCHMYCw/s1600-h/kauai-43%255B3%255D"><img alt="kauai-43" border="0" height="533" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-7lqnT664Dbo/WcRUnQ3JBuI/AAAAAAAAdL4/5rcQf9N-494BNZvQJM26xoJtztWGrayowCHMYCw/kauai-43_thumb?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentcolor; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="kauai-43" width="800" /></a><br />
Hiking to Ho'opi'i Falls...<br />
<br /><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-RBH2VlXx6gk/WcRUoKmfG_I/AAAAAAAAdL8/gz7oK_2-mjwWZBTf9QoOFvhef5uN6XaQQCHMYCw/s1600-h/kauai-45%255B3%255D"><img alt="kauai-45" border="0" height="600" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-7fc7FTIyj5k/WcRUoonLsEI/AAAAAAAAdMA/LSa9vsL-95IdcIbSLWSu6-S_fsGUDxsSgCHMYCw/kauai-45_thumb?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentcolor; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="kauai-45" width="800" /></a><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-1ecK_o8hDbo/WcRUpbyYknI/AAAAAAAAdME/LdPHLr8PYFQNkTEwVDCio2Vbtp9yqQjDQCHMYCw/s1600-h/kauai-46%255B3%255D"><img alt="kauai-46" border="0" height="533" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-R_xj8u8Q9pQ/WcRUqMeUvAI/AAAAAAAAdMI/IEtGzCbC9dAP7LriNYdMXV_RN045DLNzgCHMYCw/kauai-46_thumb?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentcolor; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="kauai-46" width="800" /></a><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-IeC9gQ05JnA/WcRUq1TEHhI/AAAAAAAAdMM/H8zp2fypraYjBLHP1YKP8hxo-yBY8xL3QCHMYCw/s1600-h/kauai-47%255B3%255D"><img alt="kauai-47" border="0" height="533" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nFVpkHET03Y/WcRUrawa5oI/AAAAAAAAdMQ/dj7BjfKZzFceUmFcpNllxDuqJVWdbkM4QCHMYCw/kauai-47_thumb?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentcolor; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="kauai-47" width="800" /></a><br />
Big Dude and his GoPro jumped. I caught 1sec video footage, but neglected to photograph the jump itself. Oh well.<br />
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<a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-j7wzSgM7r_Q/WcRUsGrbbjI/AAAAAAAAdMU/nqfgKwnuo1odvjL8J5uoc_--1YMp4jt5QCHMYCw/s1600-h/kauai-48%255B3%255D"><img alt="kauai-48" border="0" height="533" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-4KFZDirnOSs/WcRUtLQ-y1I/AAAAAAAAdMY/p_F5ck5zF28ZfSNohvbW3m_Z9RY7DbDVgCHMYCw/kauai-48_thumb?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentcolor; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="kauai-48" width="800" /></a><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-X0anl1l-fNg/WcRUtoWvKFI/AAAAAAAAdMc/yqvegUihKz457EpDFjNuIf1Fyi4x3hWTACHMYCw/s1600-h/kauai-49%255B3%255D"><img alt="kauai-49" border="0" height="450" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-sHgNXpc_B1g/WcRUuV2zVqI/AAAAAAAAdMg/p-t0aOnWouEKJ_bHPySCuuH-OZLdRjqowCHMYCw/kauai-49_thumb?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentcolor; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="kauai-49" width="800" /></a><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-ugVn9X1C1C0/WcRUvGhlpjI/AAAAAAAAdMk/b1VzJJm9AgA1ctk3Buj0UhGOThO_6-ACACHMYCw/s1600-h/kauai-50%255B3%255D"><img alt="kauai-50" border="0" height="533" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-fp9djXa27Lk/WcRUv2M9kxI/AAAAAAAAdMo/kIqRhhdh3HwTgpct3Gv2ljUOBuP6Fu4YgCHMYCw/kauai-50_thumb?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentcolor; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="kauai-50" width="800" /></a><br />
Little Dude's "umbrella". Luckily, it didn't rain.<br />
<br /><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-_gV7on3gWiA/WcRUwRY9yCI/AAAAAAAAdMs/cabzrD4-q8wqxxQHQiXpn9dQ84ntfv0BgCHMYCw/s1600-h/kauai-51%255B3%255D"><img alt="kauai-51" border="0" height="600" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-V9Ee5EzssJc/WcRUw-3AsvI/AAAAAAAAdMw/HhHdDV2wyOY_Ke3UreasDrhQ4XTNHOFMQCHMYCw/kauai-51_thumb?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentcolor; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="kauai-51" width="800" /></a><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-hmlrliUKTPY/WcRUxtkZlRI/AAAAAAAAdM0/QJ6KasgzrHk9sQKDMfGTJ10fpLvIKIRgACHMYCw/s1600-h/kauai-52%255B3%255D"><img alt="kauai-52" border="0" height="533" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-7gcQT1udvvo/WcRUyBWDuPI/AAAAAAAAdM4/GYNcnd0yIi0awb4rmJuXm6Cc6X_yHiNxACHMYCw/kauai-52_thumb?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentcolor; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="kauai-52" width="800" /></a><br />
Hike/walk to the Makauwahi Cave ... (unfortunately, we arrived on the "closed" cave day)<br />
<br /><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-XdKE-UkPWkA/WcRUyhHrY_I/AAAAAAAAdM8/iubceBHrr54u21qaJ_4d4onF3Nplme4XQCHMYCw/s1600-h/kauai-53%255B3%255D"><img alt="kauai-53" border="0" height="533" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-JbOlurqxC3I/WcRUzYzPjMI/AAAAAAAAdNA/G6gZdLvafjo3E9nsU3NwTLPpZQaUg2tTQCHMYCw/kauai-53_thumb?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentcolor; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="kauai-53" width="800" /></a><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-wGSUT58uExk/WcRU0EvQ8fI/AAAAAAAAdNE/RV2ZSDpkzAcD0VtLuuDy6hRIHfut0Ol_gCHMYCw/s1600-h/kauai-54%255B3%255D"><img alt="kauai-54" border="0" height="533" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-BpDqKXdWyuQ/WcRU0mCUSKI/AAAAAAAAdNI/VeH-VJHdxdUUE8ytpjyN4fdd-Fnx2EekgCHMYCw/kauai-54_thumb?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentcolor; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="kauai-54" width="800" /></a><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-joUsHzQlDbg/WcRU1Z37xCI/AAAAAAAAdNM/13Ltz3mUlyIth_X9-Kj9h4ixwUaTwrQxACHMYCw/s1600-h/kauai-55%255B3%255D"><img alt="kauai-55" border="0" height="533" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-fG-HGyVvv_w/WcRU1yfZEPI/AAAAAAAAdNQ/bPDG-lx9ltozyUQrjXP5aX2UBQlpLYQ4wCHMYCw/kauai-55_thumb?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentcolor; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="kauai-55" width="800" /></a><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-67kxFWduDTU/WcRU2gEiHxI/AAAAAAAAdNU/XytWhDreRAozcO-X2T2UnVFWENqpW-TIACHMYCw/s1600-h/kauai-56%255B3%255D"><img alt="kauai-56" border="0" height="533" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-ascbuKKWwfQ/WcRU3YuCt1I/AAAAAAAAdNY/VWr08iAIiCsv2TIA5XSv5Ym1EZ-Ds55JwCHMYCw/kauai-56_thumb?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentcolor; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="kauai-56" width="800" /></a><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-qqvVflP5xUY/WcRU4F-IJNI/AAAAAAAAdNc/HRvkYCkkZzUdnS1WbZW2UNiJOkBJ92jYwCHMYCw/s1600-h/kauai-57%255B3%255D"><img alt="kauai-57" border="0" height="533" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-pXijWZ0S3cU/WcRU41xEtUI/AAAAAAAAdNg/R2P1fCkn5lQNAzauaK3Lp1mJCyUDemHAgCHMYCw/kauai-57_thumb?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentcolor; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="kauai-57" width="800" /></a><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-TJLvsTLYqr4/WcRU5vd8sjI/AAAAAAAAdNk/jtq2nQyJVjkYQB_NLHu4U0ZE0z4DA2dvACHMYCw/s1600-h/kauai-58%255B3%255D"><img alt="kauai-58" border="0" height="533" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-WI90A0AY1mQ/WcRU6f0RlTI/AAAAAAAAdNo/86oGGXeKA-87qQBZ1qEQ8fEqCZeVZhbQwCHMYCw/kauai-58_thumb?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentcolor; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="kauai-58" width="800" /></a><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-di91xwLeVps/WcRU6xZrqbI/AAAAAAAAdNs/psaeEWrTEh4XqN9eckT8-3MkqzG2spdJQCHMYCw/s1600-h/kauai-59%255B3%255D"><img alt="kauai-59" border="0" height="533" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-HRYWertSN-4/WcRU7lqflBI/AAAAAAAAdNw/4YVOvzFdAUsMTshzY6NrfHq8G4UzUEhVQCHMYCw/kauai-59_thumb?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentcolor; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="kauai-59" width="800" /></a><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-duA43FtmtsA/WcRU8CnmxGI/AAAAAAAAdN0/W98BqeFOaRgwg9ljdkpZBqRaNnyybNs1gCHMYCw/s1600-h/kauai-60%255B3%255D"><img alt="kauai-60" border="0" height="533" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-X0s4e0sAP2w/WcRU8uLLLQI/AAAAAAAAdN4/YuBawZNGYA45V5MfMED33nNZUXcradgGwCHMYCw/kauai-60_thumb?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentcolor; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="kauai-60" width="800" /></a><br />
We thought we might sight honu turtles on the south shore. But, no. We sighted giant tortoises. Who knew?<br />
<br /><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-obsprDx4P4k/WcRU9ahHaAI/AAAAAAAAdN8/J10eYAwq8y0Nam912RcCs_YZXPLrhHPVgCHMYCw/s1600-h/kauai-61%255B3%255D"><img alt="kauai-61" border="0" height="533" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-IuXkC-53fPk/WcRU-HsHjUI/AAAAAAAAdOA/hXWWZg9BHgMN07Gkk-KRisMZygNRwqU4QCHMYCw/kauai-61_thumb?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentcolor; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="kauai-61" width="800" /></a><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-L05IgrRxTNI/WcRU-3XEREI/AAAAAAAAdOE/7A0iNuDjw0IzsNzLQwKu_ZdunsSgSKeUACHMYCw/s1600-h/kauai-62%255B3%255D"><img alt="kauai-62" border="0" height="533" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-e16wWexMT3c/WcRU_VVgRzI/AAAAAAAAdOI/Jw_y0grIkn4nPjqoaoZYMrXHyECwfZSHwCHMYCw/kauai-62_thumb?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentcolor; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="kauai-62" width="800" /></a><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-S_ye010LcOM/WcRU_1ER-aI/AAAAAAAAdOM/B7piS7Mfa50O-2yaOla2eU2r9uzfGmr5ACHMYCw/s1600-h/kauai-63%255B3%255D"><img alt="kauai-63" border="0" height="533" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-SEwoKhvlM94/WcRVArYxGrI/AAAAAAAAdOQ/h6PGYhjNDEIA4mF96uE8XN10w5Lg8CtIgCHMYCw/kauai-63_thumb?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentcolor; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="kauai-63" width="800" /></a><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-P7tbd3099XI/WcRVBM6HsGI/AAAAAAAAdOU/0Ed0Ldl4qqEB7zfy4GVRqFaQ0ZoZn5jgQCHMYCw/s1600-h/kauai-64%255B3%255D"><img alt="kauai-64" border="0" height="533" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-xubNlY9nzX4/WcRVByB3fnI/AAAAAAAAdOY/jtdDU8N8h3Yzn7rrvdJE8UDifeim9MwMQCHMYCw/kauai-64_thumb?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentcolor; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="kauai-64" width="800" /></a><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-gn3iV_gOkpk/WcRVCl9drhI/AAAAAAAAdOc/jdF5264xcW4cVs9xspvbFRYn108XI5DHgCHMYCw/s1600-h/kauai-65%255B3%255D"><img alt="kauai-65" border="0" height="533" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-vsWkE0nBDTc/WcRVDQtSCiI/AAAAAAAAdOg/9UlCRRmGuecgquJn2B6puazUPCUxkIrTwCHMYCw/kauai-65_thumb?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentcolor; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="kauai-65" width="800" /></a><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-5syr3hYdDFc/WcRVD-lUEsI/AAAAAAAAdOk/2fQ6jNZfe20wAqvTJTQ-QBVBVb_hMZ-FwCHMYCw/s1600-h/kauai-66%255B3%255D"><img alt="kauai-66" border="0" height="533" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-T2FaHZfQdV8/WcRVEulcV4I/AAAAAAAAdOo/Cq96RN55N7k9r-3gwu3W1j2w5E6wOYPeACHMYCw/kauai-66_thumb?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentcolor; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="kauai-66" width="800" /></a>Skellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11021374799688814697noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8429965211044100252.post-46423824716061855892017-09-21T08:56:00.000-07:002017-09-21T08:56:12.427-07:00Huali Lani Komohana, part 1The end of August saw our two eldest dudes starting campus classes and the other three of us heading to Kauai. Having our once all-in-the-same-place-all-the-time family split into multiple locations will likely someday feel normal. <br />
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<u><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-KwYMl21ImIU/WcPayLvHqPI/AAAAAAAAdGU/eALp4jQ__V8pdT6QB0kzP5JyuPIbd_KPwCHMYCw/s1600-h/kauai-1%255B7%255D"><img alt="kauai-1" border="0" height="450" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-YFYj7IdsF2g/WcPay60uDRI/AAAAAAAAdGY/ENHzLQl9fBYjs30nE2HCggBG7dt-uw8RgCHMYCw/kauai-1_thumb%255B1%255D?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentcolor; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="kauai-1" width="800" /></a><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-bnx68fDEXzA/WcPazho6Q_I/AAAAAAAAdGc/yOP80tFrwV4gqKULjtvINRoPdfiws_vMwCHMYCw/s1600-h/kauai-2%255B7%255D"><img alt="kauai-2" border="0" height="450" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-yrF7p6Oq-ug/WcPa0KKMo2I/AAAAAAAAdGg/UdCqjbdysVgR85kXYXTOgkwN5ttyP_qvQCHMYCw/kauai-2_thumb%255B1%255D?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentcolor; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="kauai-2" width="800" /></a></u><br />
A room with a really nice view. Watching weather is my favorite.<br />
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<u><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-1sXKYcQcNRQ/WcPa0m0oFFI/AAAAAAAAdGk/hmtVR2zMZtMOxq4SGCUcOhBYhhXYTaKpACHMYCw/s1600-h/kauai-3%255B7%255D"><img alt="kauai-3" border="0" height="450" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-1xDb3L4H3Ss/WcPa1VdFADI/AAAAAAAAdGo/3IPUNAIwGUcJGS57N1tsrJEm6nmClxX7wCHMYCw/kauai-3_thumb%255B1%255D?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentcolor; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="kauai-3" width="800" /></a><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Vkt8fcbtRT4/WcPa2PqFa0I/AAAAAAAAdGs/iDBgrXoRh20Ni_JplbTSMeY8YIxD7RRggCHMYCw/s1600-h/kauai-4%255B7%255D"><img alt="kauai-4" border="0" height="450" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-8i3RiO7AZ2o/WcPa25g7UxI/AAAAAAAAdGw/r40O1XES6oA53K6FbtpCtCcdIpTONY7sgCHMYCw/kauai-4_thumb%255B1%255D?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentcolor; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="kauai-4" width="800" /></a></u><br />
Guava. Everywhere. On the tree. On the ground, The smell in the air. So awesome.<br />
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<u><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-A8UxrH5vTjY/WcPa3XBzENI/AAAAAAAAdG0/pVpI88vXxesO_6ZBhCpce5wJjTJsYUD5ACHMYCw/s1600-h/kauai-5%255B7%255D"><img alt="kauai-5" border="0" height="450" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-SmO_MEchoJ0/WcPa3ykh-wI/AAAAAAAAdG4/LA8YAZFD8oMyN9U4BV2GFYCkNzSONj9yACHMYCw/kauai-5_thumb%255B1%255D?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentcolor; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="kauai-5" width="800" /></a></u><br />
Fire in the sky...<br />
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<u><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-SKS_uwfGsRU/WcPa4hC6gxI/AAAAAAAAdG8/Z8vdxRAr1XkACjSkQ4u4RST_5P5mAzcMgCHMYCw/s1600-h/kauai-6%255B7%255D"><img alt="kauai-6" border="0" height="450" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-EzJUQx7hCbU/WcPa5LRoJSI/AAAAAAAAdHA/vVaOrz5A3sgtioJuLat9FlKIXyiWJ3ARwCHMYCw/kauai-6_thumb%255B1%255D?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentcolor; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="kauai-6" width="800" /></a></u><br />
The reading room ...<br />
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<u><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-AboOnYjREUw/WcPa5-5ZiQI/AAAAAAAAdHE/5uW9SvdJRtg7mi3D_J_r-0YqAkWEonAbACHMYCw/s1600-h/kauai-7%255B7%255D"><img alt="kauai-7" border="0" height="450" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-qikPTcCkm0E/WcPa6Xp7ORI/AAAAAAAAdHI/MHIqEeOWW30genSxC6FUIL_rc-_Il0ZjwCHMYCw/kauai-7_thumb%255B1%255D?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentcolor; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="kauai-7" width="800" /></a></u><br />
With a spectacularly distracting view. Not complaining.<br />
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The spot we all jockeyed for...<br />
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Big bugs. This picture (below) doesn't do this moth justice. It was as big as Big Dude's hand. You can thank me for sharing this big bug with you. And NOT the big cane spider we found *inside* the house.<br />
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Homer in a hammock... <br />
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<u><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-b-NXqhYLLlU/WcPbAGUaZLI/AAAAAAAAdHs/Ki0ixMLymtUxoOKgQgdLdn2FPzefXj3PQCHMYCw/s1600-h/kauai-12%255B3%255D"><img alt="kauai-12" border="0" height="533" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-fO1_n-Gl4cw/WcPbAulpO0I/AAAAAAAAdHw/kBYwh6gSqo0QhWtHw-mxgPxFA7WZyhqrQCHMYCw/kauai-12_thumb?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentcolor; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="kauai-12" width="800" /></a><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-xHfRmspri-g/WcPbBP5ru1I/AAAAAAAAdH0/8bTLlmNvo2ArUrFxooFED9Rew4bT4YutACHMYCw/s1600-h/kauai-13%255B3%255D"><img alt="kauai-13" border="0" height="450" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-sSdtP9x_snk/WcPbBjuDgKI/AAAAAAAAdH4/0fr1D4_a-nk5G8MeyI96uQn0yADmPMzhgCHMYCw/kauai-13_thumb?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentcolor; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="kauai-13" width="800" /></a></u><br />
Exploring. Big boulders. Swim holes. Such a gorgeous river. (annoying mosquitos - kinda complaining about that)<br />
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<u><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-zbqECKQpg4s/WcPbCVISPbI/AAAAAAAAdH8/VMuPttRx5DkoGDHCV6R4a8JPm7DzeNSIgCHMYCw/s1600-h/kauai-14%255B3%255D"><img alt="kauai-14" border="0" height="450" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-pT52tJFSHAQ/WcPbDNEMtRI/AAAAAAAAdIA/exduUrPOD-sEzAJdcHmF2-T7-G41C_F9gCHMYCw/kauai-14_thumb?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentcolor; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="kauai-14" width="800" /></a><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-8JWEMayE9eg/WcPbDwox_nI/AAAAAAAAdIE/zQF6jlpKN6kDyfvy-l0HEjuuemCDSl4OwCHMYCw/s1600-h/kauai-15%255B3%255D"><img alt="kauai-15" border="0" height="450" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-IaxQB--kq2A/WcPbElxEujI/AAAAAAAAdII/IyJl7uuIkiosyVx0AqcQb5UIQXARtOk3gCHMYCw/kauai-15_thumb?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentcolor; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="kauai-15" width="800" /></a><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-dgiy-Yrkuyo/WcPbFs8WjfI/AAAAAAAAdIM/c3ERnpn0LmQI6pkjTvHaUwviaTxZq5E6gCHMYCw/s1600-h/kauai-16%255B3%255D"><img alt="kauai-16" border="0" height="450" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Sp0wWpEjCHU/WcPbGoq-CPI/AAAAAAAAdIQ/9z5_Jcm8bCcw69HqO6QYu3qC87t57igAwCHMYCw/kauai-16_thumb?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentcolor; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="kauai-16" width="800" /></a></u><br />
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<u><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-x5lHNnvxoK4/WcPbH6XDPQI/AAAAAAAAdIU/cCVwKL7Zh3Qrj7R0QUAt5Lwby-I7yjxaACHMYCw/s1600-h/kauai-17%255B3%255D"><img alt="kauai-17" border="0" height="800" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-o0AvjJuCA4o/WcPbI3Kf8fI/AAAAAAAAdIY/p0dZpyy7uR0hWrAUZv3RSTQ7LKM_Y2VywCHMYCw/kauai-17_thumb?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentcolor; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="kauai-17" width="800" /></a></u><br />
An afternoon's walk in Kilauea. Through the Wai Koa Plantation - believe it or not, on a tiny dot of an island in the Pacific, there exists the largest Mahogany tree farm in the US. We walked and walked and walked, a four mile loop...<br />
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<u><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-gkSWqgxrKMc/WcPbJUoH-AI/AAAAAAAAdIc/dU7DQZLWzoYv_aOIRgGGHO20qDVawpK5wCHMYCw/s1600-h/kauai-18%255B3%255D"><img alt="kauai-18" border="0" height="450" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-WO9bANIfjl8/WcPbKOUePsI/AAAAAAAAdIg/cxA3mPWfvY4Lqt5EzEqN86DbQUAh9AqVQCHMYCw/kauai-18_thumb?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentcolor; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="kauai-18" width="800" /></a><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-NCNnbjEmyec/WcPbLuVoIcI/AAAAAAAAdIk/DhcA9qlozgsF_6kHHzEEme7cCz4z3AHTgCHMYCw/s1600-h/kauai-19%255B3%255D"><img alt="kauai-19" border="0" height="533" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-2zMN3q7VWZs/WcPbNDlvWII/AAAAAAAAdIo/Y2vJbKltyYoENjm0_JIe97XTHWquJQh5gCHMYCw/kauai-19_thumb?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentcolor; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="kauai-19" width="800" /></a><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-5Aoaeu-_Svg/WcPbN7dD_XI/AAAAAAAAdIs/U9CZ3BgTmUcFtNpBnBPJwY3gHScBXauhwCHMYCw/s1600-h/kauai-20%255B3%255D"><img alt="kauai-20" border="0" height="450" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-FrlOFoSwCF8/WcPbO7ZxWsI/AAAAAAAAdIw/cJ18lLqvSgg458vFQnIPifKJPT0zqmKpwCHMYCw/kauai-20_thumb?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentcolor; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="kauai-20" width="800" /></a><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-l-JZ9mmsOZs/WcPbPgWIttI/AAAAAAAAdI0/Gnua9As9Vw0JK71eLrl7RmhLhR6uaSH8QCHMYCw/s1600-h/kauai-21%255B3%255D"><img alt="kauai-21" border="0" height="450" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-0zIH64EHa_o/WcPbRQcXAUI/AAAAAAAAdI4/YyLoUaAKK7EYbJqXS5K2Hca_t6GZSOSAACHMYCw/kauai-21_thumb?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentcolor; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="kauai-21" width="800" /></a><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-oRAk-NfB9Uc/WcPbSMtx6EI/AAAAAAAAdI8/DVCXL0ieB8U6kZKEtUWQXhsrEJeDImDKQCHMYCw/s1600-h/kauai-22%255B3%255D"><img alt="kauai-22" border="0" height="533" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-n_fLGM_OT-o/WcPbS6bvXlI/AAAAAAAAdJA/PXKZfR2ZRa8td9io87Kg4Qfgl00OE9NDwCHMYCw/kauai-22_thumb?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentcolor; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="kauai-22" width="800" /></a></u><br />
At the end of the loop was a stone dam built in the 1880s. Super pretty. <br />
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<u><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-gVG0V3J5bpQ/WcPbULw2eAI/AAAAAAAAdJE/SKqlCYjosuMdlEChGikot_qVzBAi7TYDQCHMYCw/s1600-h/kauai-23%255B3%255D"><img alt="kauai-23" border="0" height="450" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-h4L6tWRO4Jw/WcPbVFjEfhI/AAAAAAAAdJI/Lc6kLlIclKAr2geF-Pz81wFaGFn-8PfUQCHMYCw/kauai-23_thumb?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentcolor; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="kauai-23" width="800" /></a><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-JQQNfuPzpF8/WcPbVlKZpYI/AAAAAAAAdJM/lC95dWNW6e4a0tynnpvTSHfRqgQhQKxHQCHMYCw/s1600-h/kauai-24%255B3%255D"><img alt="kauai-24" border="0" height="533" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-H4hUixyWke8/WcPbWc6dRcI/AAAAAAAAdJQ/28gCRnPvhbEL5rCxe9aYbVAFSDCFc6OFgCHMYCw/kauai-24_thumb?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentcolor; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="kauai-24" width="800" /></a><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-IpI5ZKy0O0s/WcPbXACl9_I/AAAAAAAAdJU/ndKdptvHp00LpgNszgm54AU9y_EXpKFVACHMYCw/s1600-h/kauai-25%255B3%255D"><img alt="kauai-25" border="0" height="533" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-jDX-ZAwYu1A/WcPbX11ZwMI/AAAAAAAAdJY/RevqZrw0YgMLILmIpEzHcXDR8QPEMjItwCHMYCw/kauai-25_thumb?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentcolor; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="kauai-25" width="800" /></a></u><br />
I was super happy with this walk - no mountains to scale and lovely mahagonies to meander amongst. Pretty scenery all around. The dudes thought this was totally lame. That there must have been a more direct route to get here. <br />
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They needed yummy Fish Market to recover from the ridiculousness of that four miles.<br />
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A different day, a beach down the road ...<br />
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A teeny tiny crab...<br />
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Walk softly, carry a big stick, and run quickly between the wave sets if you absolutely refuse to remove your shoes and socks...<br />
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<a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-yLOM3DkdVyo/Wb1DhVLzWpI/AAAAAAAAdB0/TKEBeVib4iAC1pyZm5akPwI694jLGai9gCHMYCw/s1600-h/kauai%2Bbaby%2Bphotographer-1%255B3%255D"><img alt="kauai baby photographer-1" border="0" height="533" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-lLjzgGm4b7w/Wb1Dh_MkhEI/AAAAAAAAdB4/ZTYkEg58JvgseOBJMVmZXFhethT6P9mwQCHMYCw/kauai%2Bbaby%2Bphotographer-1_thumb?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentcolor; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="kauai baby photographer-1" width="800" /></a><br />
These giant, not-to-be-missed moments of glory are surrounded by millions of moments of equal glory that are sometimes so "familiar" that we fail to be quite so aware of them. The repetitious, mundane tasks and activities that fill our days. The cycling thru "stations" of awake-time play-time...<br />
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The earliest days of high chair shenanigans...<br />
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Toes in the grass, big air, and drooling ...<br />
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Diaper change after diaper change after diaper change ...<br />
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The tickles and rollovers and cuddles and tummy-time (plus, toes are yummy) ...<br />
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Feeding time, again and again ...<br />
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And, finally, the sublime nap time ... the one with no time/length guarantees ...<br />
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Followed by the slow, mellow wake-up and stretches ...<br />
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And the repetition of all of the above - ordinary/extraordinary, familiar moments of daily life. Glory to glory ... "The whole earth is full of His glory." (Is 6:3)<br />
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<i>Howl's Moving Castle </i>by Diana Wynne Jones<i> - </i>YA fantasy/fairytale, light, fun, quirky, witty. Just what I needed after a bunch of "darker"/heavier/depressing-er stories. And then I followed up with Diana Wynne Jones' sequel <i>House of Many Ways</i>, which was all kinds of Meh. I'll skip the 3rd in the series, <i>Castle in the Air</i>. (ps. Little Dude liked <i>Howl's</i> quite a lot, also. Neither of us much enjoyed the animated movie version.)<br />
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<i>Jayber Crow</i> by Wendell Berry - exquisite writing and character development, but I had a hard time getting thru this book - picked it up and put it down several times over the span of several months, which likely spoiled my enjoyment/understanding of it. I like my fiction to read like fiction. Jayber Crow is fiction, but it reads like non-fiction with a huge dollop of philosophy (traditional agrarianism, encroaching industrialism, pacifism, theology & ecology) and historical documentary (rural life in Kentucky, 1920s-80s).<br />
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Flannery O'Connor just keeps getting better every time I read/re-read her. <i><br />A View of the Woods</i> - short story by Flannery O'Connor (Close Reads bookclub)</div>
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https://www.circeinstitute.org/podcast/close-reads-43-view-woods<br />
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<i>The Enduring Chill</i> - short story by Flanenry O'Connor (Close Reads bookclub)<br />
https://www.circeinstitute.org/podcast/close-reads-45-enduring-chill<br />
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<i>The Comforts of Home</i> - short story by Flannery O'Connor (Close Reads bookclub)<br />
http://sittingbee.com/the-comforts-of-home-flannery-oconnor/<br />
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<i>Belles on Their Toes</i> by <span class="a-size-small a-color-secondary" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(85 , 85 , 85); font-family: "amazon ember" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.25;"> </span><span class="a-size-small a-color-secondary" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "amazon ember" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.25;">Frank B. Gilbreth and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey</span><span class="a-size-small a-color-secondary" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "amazon ember" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.25;"> - the continuing story of Cheaper by the Dozen. Delightful, enjoyable, funny, poignant ... just like the first book.</span><br />
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<i>Adam Bede</i> by George Eliot (bookclub) - ugh. I've written my thoughts on this on two separate occasions, neither of which have saved for whatever reason. I give. Simple conclusion: not as good (even remotely) as <i>Middlemarch</i>. If you've never read Eliot, skip this and go straight to <i>Middlemarch</i>.<br />
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<i>The Busman's Holiday</i> by Dorothy Sayers -<br />
<i>Murder Must Advertise</i> by Dorothy Sayers - <br />
<i>Strong Poison</i> by Dorothy Sayers - <br />
<i>Have His Carcase</i> by Dorothy Sayers - (all free library e-book downloads) whodunnit mysteries. Sayer's method includes all the pertinent details, so you too may solve the mystery alongside Peter Wimsey (and Harriet Vane), be you so inclined. Fun fluffy reads.<br />
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<i>The Aeneid</i> by Virgil (bookclub) - read this to flesh out my "big-3" epics of Western Civ. I enjoyed Homer more. Not that Virgil is bad (duh). Just not my cuppa (my bad).<br />
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<i>The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place:<br />The Mysterious Howling<br />The Hidden Gallery<br />The Unseen Guest</i>, all by Maryrose Wood - quirky, fun, well-written, slightly snarky, totally humorous young person stories. Reminds me of Lois Lowry's <i>The Willoughby's</i> (which I highly recommend!) Plays with words, history, classic literature & language. Silly. Escapist. Fluff. Minor fault-finding: I don't quite like how long the main "mystery" story-line plays out - 3 books in, no resolution. I know the eventual big reveal will be anti-climatic and not based in reality, and not that bid a deal; nonetheless, I get a little frustrated with books that don't resolve at book's end.<br />
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<i>Laurus</i> by Eugene Vodolazkin (trans. by Lisa Hayden) - I have a hard time describing this book. It's quite good, excellent even ... perhaps even a future classic. It's epic for sure. Russian Orthodox in its Christianity. Medieval. Yet quirky modern at the same time. At the risk of over simplifying, it's a story of one man's lifetime ... a man with four different names at four different times in his life ... a child apprenticing the healing arts from his grandfather, a rural healer himself, a holy fool of sorts, a pilgrim, and eventually a monk. At its heart [I think] the story is about Redemption. Nearing the end of the novel: "This was inquired of Aristides the righteous: how many yeares is it good for a man to live? And Aristides answerd: untill he does understonde death is better than lyfe. People leave without reading the conversations with Aristides. They bow to Laurus and wish him many more yeares. God forbid, Laurus answers them soundlessly."<br />
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<i>The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane</i> by Kate DiCamillo - lovely illustrations, precious story. So good.<br />
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DiCamillo’s usual fare. Still lovely
writing. Still full of heart. But these characters are broken and damaged
by big loss. And the ending is sad and
full of hope, all at the same time.
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<i>Gone
with the Wind</i> by
Margaret Mitchell (bookclub) - this is a big long book;
as such, I'm not going to try to put my thoughts in any kind of order, but
instead, here are my stream of consciousness responses ... firstly, foremostly:
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<span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> 1. it's one thing to be in the head of a
character who may be racist (one can even argue for the importance of having
such characters), but it is an altogether separate thing to be in the head of a
narrator/author who is completely Racist and Pro-Slavery. In fact, for me, it’s an odious thing. GWtW is a hard slog from the perspective of
being in the head of someone who so strongly sympathizes with the “glories” of
the pre-Civil-war Southern Way of Life. </span></div>
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2. Mitchell uses the word “florid” altogether
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3. The narrative of a way of
life that’s gone with the wind is tremendously well documented. </div>
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4. The romances are slightly elevated above
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5. The bildungsroman (<i><span style="background: white; color: #222222;">novel of formation, education, culture</span></i><span style="background: white; color: #222222;">, aka a “<i>coming-of-age story”</i>, the
psychological and moral growth of the </span>protagonist
<span style="background: white; color: #222222;">from youth to adulthood) of
Scarlett is top notch. Also, Scarlett is
far from your “traditional” protagonist.
She’s dark and messy. She’s not
sweet. When she acts unselfishly (I
counted 3x this happened), it’s almost entirely unconsciously. Flannery O’Connor also creates dark &
messy characters; but, it’s always clear that FOC *<b>loves</b>* her
characters. I can’t figure out if
Mitchell actually likes Scarlett. If I knew more about Mitchell herself, perhaps I could answer this question?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222;">6. GWtW is a soap opera. </span><br />
<span style="background: white; color: #222222;">7. Mitchell is not subtle – if she wants you to
really understand what she’s saying, she’ll reiterate herself a dozen+
times. She will not take the chance that
you (the reader) might incorrectly interpret what she’s saying in between the
lines. No need to infer or extrapolate
meaning. She spells it all out. Specifically. Ad nauseum. See? </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">8. In a recent-ish </span><a href="https://www.circeinstitute.org/podcast/close-reads-54-brideshead-revisited-chapter-5" target="_blank">Close Reads podcast</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">, Angelina Stanford solidly grouped Mitchell with the other “Lost Generation”
post-WWI writers (Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Steinbeck, Eliot, Faulkner, et al) and
suggested that Mitchell wrote a solidly Lost Generation book that’s placed in
the context of the American Civil War instead of WWI. Some of the prominent themes the Lost
Generation writers addressed included the over-the-top decadence and frivolity
of the lifestyle of the rich, the death of the “American Dream” (and the idealization
of the past, mourning its passing), the disillusionment & disorientation
felt by those who survived the war, a chipping away at the understanding of
traditional gender roles. GWtW certainly has all these themes. </span></div>
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<i>The Alchemist </i> by Paulo Coelho - <span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">this is a quick read.
More an allegory/fable/novelette than a full novel. [I have since discovered that the story has its origination in one of the stories in the <i>1001 Arabian Nights</i>.]</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">It’s a simply told story, and there is certainly an elegance in the
simplicity and in the “parable” nature of the narrative.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Coelho cleverly overlaid elements of traditional Biblical
stories, Koran instruction, and New Agey “Control-the-Universe-with-your-mind”</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">mythology.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">So, I liked The Alchemist from the perspective of a story well-told and
from its emphasis on being aware and “alive” in each moment .</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">But the non-subtle, new-age, self-helpy theology
made me all kinds of itchy-scratchy.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Bottom
line: I both liked and disliked this book.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">I confess I'm a bit befuddled as to why it’s one of the best-selling books of all time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><i>Anne of Green Gables</i> by L.M. Montgomery - when I need something totally not depressing, or when I need something that restores my faith in mankind, <i>Anne</i> is my go-to. So I've gone to her again. I think I may read thru the whole series again. I can't read this first book without picturing the entirety of the first movie, which was perfection. (I'm referring to the 1985 film, NOT the 2016 PBS film, which I did NOT like at all. Don't mess with perfection.)</span><br />
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Skellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11021374799688814697noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8429965211044100252.post-2738402846876805242017-08-03T15:42:00.001-07:002017-08-03T15:42:11.991-07:00Spokane Summer Getaway<div class="MsoNormal">
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San Diego. That monsoon delayed our flight 3 hours. So we stopped
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This is the shuttle stop in the *economy* lot, NOT the *long term* lot. This is an important distinction. Because when you return and try and get on the shuttle going back and you say "long term lot" ... you're wrong.<br />
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Mono Lake from high above.<br />
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Somewhere over Washington, from high above. Looks like a cartoon drawing.<a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-S9NbAIu1VJ4/WYOe-j5YCAI/AAAAAAAAc6M/iqK_2NHkgfAlrtMQs45q89S1ak7s6ffSgCHMYCw/s1600-h/spokane%2Bsummer%2B2017-5%255B3%255D"><img alt="spokane summer 2017-5" border="0" height="450" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-LxVEiezlz04/WYOe_VmG-XI/AAAAAAAAc6Q/MTWCUaEa0VMlmRc-87BYvYwQ_Oj2tadVwCHMYCw/spokane%2Bsummer%2B2017-5_thumb?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="spokane summer 2017-5" width="800" /></a><br />
Wouldn't be a trip to Spokane without a visit to the gardens at Manito Park ...<br />
<br /><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nW3QEIkFfo4/WYOfAAho_TI/AAAAAAAAc6U/JrALBfeLGbc7wn1M13c1Dd_-rYYQQ8d1gCHMYCw/s1600-h/spokane%2Bsummer%2B2017-6%255B3%255D"><img alt="spokane summer 2017-6" border="0" height="450" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-y83X0VLBaYc/WYOfAkQDqvI/AAAAAAAAc6Y/gzaa4KaHy206CPMwODdHoEk5hPaE50xZgCHMYCw/spokane%2Bsummer%2B2017-6_thumb?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="spokane summer 2017-6" width="800" /></a><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-H4BYUwvU5z8/WYOfBX5IwPI/AAAAAAAAc6c/eUU73WtO_7wtfwwxcXUN_ESMhGEOyyTWQCHMYCw/s1600-h/spokane%2Bsummer%2B2017-7%255B3%255D"><img alt="spokane summer 2017-7" border="0" height="450" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-B2SKljAB3T4/WYOfCOSb__I/AAAAAAAAc6g/z7A_QJkKOdczExGWoCCAWd5srdoLWnl9QCHMYCw/spokane%2Bsummer%2B2017-7_thumb?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="spokane summer 2017-7" width="800" /></a><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-P-RRbEunnus/WYOfCrhWaUI/AAAAAAAAc6k/2SBfN9EqAhQhDoM9EOlnDOPjfoemyt-8wCHMYCw/s1600-h/spokane%2Bsummer%2B2017-8%255B3%255D"><img alt="spokane summer 2017-8" border="0" height="450" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-C7MMRT1uZgA/WYOfDebaD4I/AAAAAAAAc6o/zXruxAaaIw8XfxoQ_dKLjII4nGe5xFRiwCHMYCw/spokane%2Bsummer%2B2017-8_thumb?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="spokane summer 2017-8" width="800" /></a><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-eg9UrGFMrAQ/WYOfEI4_znI/AAAAAAAAc6s/LHB9vPVuSeIbBwlbb0zBJjQiaBuPKbEGQCHMYCw/s1600-h/spokane%2Bsummer%2B2017-9%255B3%255D"><img alt="spokane summer 2017-9" border="0" height="450" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/--he6Nw2aHXc/WYOfE6PsWWI/AAAAAAAAc6w/p3QnGw_ak8gSuv1B-Ajw_8t8hGXJOFDCgCHMYCw/spokane%2Bsummer%2B2017-9_thumb?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="spokane summer 2017-9" width="800" /></a><br />
My [literally] sweet niece with chocolate lips ...<br />
<br /><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-_SH0_4WxrF4/WYOfFU-MtiI/AAAAAAAAc60/alrzsaIEGz0fWVbxQq3jqCy0PWBvdYV6QCHMYCw/s1600-h/spokane%2Bsummer%2B2017-10%255B3%255D"><img alt="spokane summer 2017-10" border="0" height="533" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-LC0oUEn9qHw/WYOfF2QTSHI/AAAAAAAAc64/xNfMfPo0dtk55DS4grZj49TQAiOrv5YCwCHMYCw/spokane%2Bsummer%2B2017-10_thumb?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="spokane summer 2017-10" width="800" /></a><br />
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My MIL's garden rivals Manito gardens in beauty ...<a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-5-N4Sp01a5U/WYOfGmDW86I/AAAAAAAAc68/i4d4a7a6UzYqthKDSPNsWMD4BcYw8kd5gCHMYCw/s1600-h/spokane%2Bsummer%2B2017-11%255B3%255D"><img alt="spokane summer 2017-11" border="0" height="533" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-V9DYI5Rq3mc/WYOfHIRyjAI/AAAAAAAAc7A/YVU1TWkhheECXFFoZTSgtXr11YCGI9s1QCHMYCw/spokane%2Bsummer%2B2017-11_thumb?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="spokane summer 2017-11" width="800" /></a><br />
Drove out to Green Bluff for lunch. Cherries in season.<br />
<br /><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-ubpX0swW_FU/WYOfH8dpfYI/AAAAAAAAc7E/Vc9ex5Oc9OIMRY53vFznbqu134i3H9szwCHMYCw/s1600-h/spokane%2Bsummer%2B2017-12%255B3%255D"><img alt="spokane summer 2017-12" border="0" height="450" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-BBGjg4nS3Bs/WYOfIRgIODI/AAAAAAAAc7I/MOcngCidsEc5lXmiO5O7s_uwOM42fG8XACHMYCw/spokane%2Bsummer%2B2017-12_thumb?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="spokane summer 2017-12" width="800" /></a><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-lM4JP_xnzPg/WYOfJG1PrbI/AAAAAAAAc7M/uzZiBlXU5KkJIcRu9fMjTx3hZqGHyB-mwCHMYCw/s1600-h/spokane%2Bsummer%2B2017-13%255B3%255D"><img alt="spokane summer 2017-13" border="0" height="450" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-k87SE30eF9c/WYOfJ02kV5I/AAAAAAAAc7Q/b82x5bIK_eE01LfTHhqvqR9Jzn-Asz9RQCHMYCw/spokane%2Bsummer%2B2017-13_thumb?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="spokane summer 2017-13" width="800" /></a><br />
Pie cherries. So for lunch, I ordered cherry pie. Nothing else, just pie. Yummm.<br />
<br /><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-FVAnDVY8268/WYOfKv2PmVI/AAAAAAAAc7U/qsFzn4-5tu4t4OWlbDQy1kp_2sE43BmjgCHMYCw/s1600-h/spokane%2Bsummer%2B2017-14%255B3%255D"><img alt="spokane summer 2017-14" border="0" height="450" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-SKZyTauRfJs/WYOfLcaNw-I/AAAAAAAAc7Y/YqoRUOqo7wEGimTocUbHlcIt_s20kjPYgCHMYCw/spokane%2Bsummer%2B2017-14_thumb?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="spokane summer 2017-14" width="800" /></a><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-g3_w-6oOUPY/WYOfLzXDBAI/AAAAAAAAc7c/iAO_rKovOHMaSn2coxYcomTEBYEZENLEwCHMYCw/s1600-h/spokane%2Bsummer%2B2017-15%255B3%255D"><img alt="spokane summer 2017-15" border="0" height="450" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-n23NfwWyN4Q/WYOfMdKDftI/AAAAAAAAc7g/jB4-JPeWz1spWvBGoAH9BkEFH3dsP9d_wCHMYCw/spokane%2Bsummer%2B2017-15_thumb?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="spokane summer 2017-15" width="800" /></a><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Pd0-YSuYM0c/WYOfNHAaeHI/AAAAAAAAc7k/lZXY-rN3-1IGjVJagey5Mw7b41r8Aez6QCHMYCw/s1600-h/spokane%2Bsummer%2B2017-16%255B3%255D"><img alt="spokane summer 2017-16" border="0" height="465" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-MJDTiGdcexQ/WYOfN5JXqRI/AAAAAAAAc7o/KETXlFmM34Yf_xLY0JlGdEZO97j6KZThACHMYCw/spokane%2Bsummer%2B2017-16_thumb?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="spokane summer 2017-16" width="800" /></a><br />Little Dude having a huge serving of huckleberry ice cream.<br />
<br /><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-1l1JukcFq_M/WYOfOvCZoXI/AAAAAAAAc7s/Ey1Y3zzrMAAe8B8sem4-5PV4b9nukSBywCHMYCw/s1600-h/spokane%2Bsummer%2B2017-17%255B3%255D"><img alt="spokane summer 2017-17" border="0" height="450" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-IABU0oWFPB8/WYOfPBE8hFI/AAAAAAAAc7w/m3_j_b5vuHsR6V4iUVHMBgK76ouxghvBgCHMYCw/spokane%2Bsummer%2B2017-17_thumb?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="spokane summer 2017-17" width="800" /></a><br />
My SIL is a beekeeper, y'all! Her bee hive is sooooo pretty. I wish I had a snapshot of her happy hive, but I only grabbed 1-second video footage of them.<br />
<br /><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-vwOpYfcgh1Y/WYOfQK0pJpI/AAAAAAAAc70/QToYnB9kUJcm0qvWHeIn_OrjjOvqCN1qQCHMYCw/s1600-h/spokane%2Bsummer%2B2017-18%255B3%255D"><img alt="spokane summer 2017-18" border="0" height="450" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-kQtAr5Ulxsg/WYOfQywSJ2I/AAAAAAAAc74/pcSPzy_gmhw2KbGUSOs4phbftF1fxnrBgCHMYCw/spokane%2Bsummer%2B2017-18_thumb?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="spokane summer 2017-18" width="800" /></a><br />
My FIL took us to his top secret stash of wild huckleberries. Ok, not so secret. There were lots of people out foraging berries there... <br />
<br /><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-2qtq8N6mrkY/WYOfRcSow4I/AAAAAAAAc78/RNNB9PmIqS0hdnXVGOOi-4p_rba91ZjcwCHMYCw/s1600-h/spokane%2Bsummer%2B2017-19%255B3%255D"><img alt="spokane summer 2017-19" border="0" height="533" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-wYYEWW6m5rU/WYOfSLULyXI/AAAAAAAAc8A/xb8sJAP9hAY3OjlhkTdJjgiJBOORrU7tACHMYCw/spokane%2Bsummer%2B2017-19_thumb?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="spokane summer 2017-19" width="800" /></a><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-DDn6v9CwfNA/WYOfSnbGZEI/AAAAAAAAc8E/dnFb4SMNBYcERTiWNzSxZXHBuAn8FstvwCHMYCw/s1600-h/spokane%2Bsummer%2B2017-20%255B3%255D"><img alt="spokane summer 2017-20" border="0" height="533" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-3NvLoGb7Af4/WYOfTUeWwqI/AAAAAAAAc8I/neuxGSe6lq0nR_NEbl_XNyFNZAMQ8WVDQCHMYCw/spokane%2Bsummer%2B2017-20_thumb?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="spokane summer 2017-20" width="800" /></a><br />
My pickings near the beginning of our outing.<br />
<br /><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-UOADIFQwQNI/WYOfT2340_I/AAAAAAAAc8M/qSvYg6ImQV8YY3fzP7SCndCE_6xg_A2IQCHMYCw/s1600-h/spokane%2Bsummer%2B2017-21%255B3%255D"><img alt="spokane summer 2017-21" border="0" height="533" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-XCMvvdFes6Q/WYOfUc1fFHI/AAAAAAAAc8Q/Qdv1ra9P1q4qQDFUhzVTR_OxfT7BlULTACHMYCw/spokane%2Bsummer%2B2017-21_thumb?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="spokane summer 2017-21" width="800" /></a><br />
I spy 2 dudes ...<br />
<br /><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-TjpsAN8GQgY/WYOfUyIicSI/AAAAAAAAc8U/tf0a6DAc8bgE7W7vNKXlIFe55NNJtkROQCHMYCw/s1600-h/spokane%2Bsummer%2B2017-22%255B3%255D"><img alt="spokane summer 2017-22" border="0" height="533" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-7xH4As0gbWA/WYOfVvE2dtI/AAAAAAAAc8Y/5HqZgSV4j8omHIJYrPq6GAj-IU878DRLACHMYCw/spokane%2Bsummer%2B2017-22_thumb?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="spokane summer 2017-22" width="800" /></a><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-krFG9u2Y-rM/WYOfWahiVxI/AAAAAAAAc8c/vL_rEBQXj20WNQE0iym0bN1Rl70OmRlEACHMYCw/s1600-h/spokane%2Bsummer%2B2017-23%255B3%255D"><img alt="spokane summer 2017-23" border="0" height="533" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-uFAB-b1PZGM/WYOfW1Tz2jI/AAAAAAAAc8g/hh3cMciiiG4b0GFBcwV9fuCeseQ5COn6ACHMYCw/spokane%2Bsummer%2B2017-23_thumb?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="spokane summer 2017-23" width="800" /></a><br />
<a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-bOCwxvfG83c/WYOfX4MSIjI/AAAAAAAAc8k/1WmIPqmvVRcYZxPNdi7RcNcHCznfDFcQwCHMYCw/s1600-h/spokane%2Bsummer%2B2017-24%255B3%255D"><img alt="spokane summer 2017-24" border="0" height="533" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-E2rLXRicYRQ/WYOfYuTy1FI/AAAAAAAAc8o/MMU1Z92RHIAUd3p5BmmY26qF53XGygmbwCHMYCw/spokane%2Bsummer%2B2017-24_thumb?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="spokane summer 2017-24" width="800" /></a><br />
My pickings after 90 minutes. Between the four of us, we probably accumulated about a full 1 quart bag.<br />
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<a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-d8sovu4cOh8/WYOfZJ3UoYI/AAAAAAAAc8s/R_aPg9Gh9gE6DJwxxzzxpXW_Qzc3yEaOwCHMYCw/s1600-h/spokane%2Bsummer%2B2017-25%255B3%255D"><img alt="spokane summer 2017-25" border="0" height="533" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-1T9fGhBERLM/WYOfZ5kSB0I/AAAAAAAAc8w/sNEWNsGYqHkqMsUWXNc0_0FLz-HR3Lm6ACHMYCw/spokane%2Bsummer%2B2017-25_thumb?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="spokane summer 2017-25" width="800" /></a><br />
On top of Mount Spokane for our picnic lunch.<br />
<br /><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-9S_06n1tQlw/WYOfacFgkGI/AAAAAAAAc80/G6vrzYIIL_snKDI2263ePLPHsdU3HhuYwCHMYCw/s1600-h/spokane%2Bsummer%2B2017-26%255B3%255D"><img alt="spokane summer 2017-26" border="0" height="450" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Up_zbgY_Bg4/WYOfa3G_QiI/AAAAAAAAc84/d4rlM5pWUboWmSDSUzRcGZt0dKcwIuGKgCHMYCw/spokane%2Bsummer%2B2017-26_thumb?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="spokane summer 2017-26" width="800" /></a><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-XqdUD5P09Cg/WYOfbV6GkEI/AAAAAAAAc88/X-oRJcsX0JA3h9cWQPT_HamWqw8p5wEaQCHMYCw/s1600-h/spokane%2Bsummer%2B2017-27%255B3%255D"><img alt="spokane summer 2017-27" border="0" height="533" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-CyXQJfecj7U/WYOfb-STyXI/AAAAAAAAc9A/PuIfewtq8W4uK_ejD4TcxH0Lx3le9xsgACHMYCw/spokane%2Bsummer%2B2017-27_thumb?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="spokane summer 2017-27" width="800" /></a><br />
With huckleberry snacks.<br />
<br /><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-i-Cvh_7N_1A/WYOfcThqvbI/AAAAAAAAc9E/LE946BmkIA0OVu1zjW-PIUhYrIR7jzlFQCHMYCw/s1600-h/spokane%2Bsummer%2B2017-28%255B3%255D"><img alt="spokane summer 2017-28" border="0" height="450" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-ei2pPMH4uk0/WYOfc38ljoI/AAAAAAAAc9I/qODwM-galDkO6-G9OY66WvTUpp23RQ1bACHMYCw/spokane%2Bsummer%2B2017-28_thumb?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="spokane summer 2017-28" width="800" /></a><br />The view was pretty swell.<br />
<br /><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-BNVZl45t9as/WYOfdnINYbI/AAAAAAAAc9M/Lk3N3aOplvsq7mDy7lXZwDO4mPvyDftCACHMYCw/s1600-h/spokane%2Bsummer%2B2017-29%255B3%255D"><img alt="spokane summer 2017-29" border="0" height="533" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-KdHd0hjqyQM/WYOfeGyW6eI/AAAAAAAAc9Q/z7SrPMjOMCoLh3JDYv5Q1bmq2Vzrhg1iACHMYCw/spokane%2Bsummer%2B2017-29_thumb?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="spokane summer 2017-29" width="800" /></a><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-c32XX5ikWBc/WYOfe_Tx9EI/AAAAAAAAc9U/NhTd1qwnZCsf_DM7PVO3xpME-4WY4NyIACHMYCw/s1600-h/spokane%2Bsummer%2B2017-30%255B3%255D"><img alt="spokane summer 2017-30" border="0" height="450" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-_wzUvkpa_7I/WYOffbRW6jI/AAAAAAAAc9Y/kg-oQafdeLgaihSdhxHR45ur68iDwNLlACHMYCw/spokane%2Bsummer%2B2017-30_thumb?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="spokane summer 2017-30" width="800" /></a><br />
<a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-0WJXJw2TP8s/WYOfgJEn16I/AAAAAAAAc9c/UmK5Fb7ob4EQHKruMLwRcvGWm5X3xxymwCHMYCw/s1600-h/spokane%2Bsummer%2B2017-31%255B3%255D"><img alt="spokane summer 2017-31" border="0" height="533" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-LbsdgzWe-hI/WYOfguDKGrI/AAAAAAAAc9g/ImbBQsgkxL0VMv4zB78B_H0yM12NWz1OACHMYCw/spokane%2Bsummer%2B2017-31_thumb?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="spokane summer 2017-31" width="800" /></a><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-EUhkkvHzu9w/WYOfhsguGxI/AAAAAAAAc9k/Bdzc-mYXZHEL2_AY-ow0fwEsNXdywfjSwCHMYCw/s1600-h/spokane%2Bsummer%2B2017-32%255B3%255D"><img alt="spokane summer 2017-32" border="0" height="533" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-UnYJPgpyLiA/WYOfiZSyhLI/AAAAAAAAc9o/c0pQWSDusy8yGKd7GnyWjM404_8VPGF1wCHMYCw/spokane%2Bsummer%2B2017-32_thumb?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="spokane summer 2017-32" width="800" /></a><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-RbTfhCWHZ6U/WYOfi345-jI/AAAAAAAAc9s/Qu8_H_Pge_QzYHD2VLUXVFxZ7syLpQxFACHMYCw/s1600-h/spokane%2Bsummer%2B2017-33%255B3%255D"><img alt="spokane summer 2017-33" border="0" height="533" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-BUNCQ_Hy-UE/WYOfjrlrLkI/AAAAAAAAc9w/t0wQ1iATK34o4VJ3Pno-m-_QU1ukp8wbQCHMYCw/spokane%2Bsummer%2B2017-33_thumb?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="spokane summer 2017-33" width="800" /></a><br />
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My perspective.<br />
<br /><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-hln5oihJuAQ/WYOfkCeOJdI/AAAAAAAAc90/wywcGHtu9Yogqglm4ssOQrtcjrM2ha52ACHMYCw/s1600-h/spokane%2Bsummer%2B2017-34%255B3%255D"><img alt="spokane summer 2017-34" border="0" height="533" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-bCRoluc6mc0/WYOfk1HQ2dI/AAAAAAAAc94/_ktcBQyuzCsfxXwzAcHNr56k7x8IBOqCQCHMYCw/spokane%2Bsummer%2B2017-34_thumb?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="spokane summer 2017-34" width="800" /></a><br />
Big Dude's perspective. Why, yes, I am double fisting the cameras. Of course.<br />
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Mount Spokane's Vista House. It's like it grows right out of the stones.<br />
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<a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-m8_8B1uByBc/WYOfs88GQhI/AAAAAAAAc-s/jpPmFrLl8ak2gVCwVIwBNqZvUAyMFvHXwCHMYCw/s1600-h/spokane%2Bsummer%2B2017-41%255B3%255D"><img alt="spokane summer 2017-41" border="0" height="450" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-hI8Karxb6L8/WYOftVKVGwI/AAAAAAAAc-w/r8h85eYzIqw8IUNRwihrpEB5T8A35Jj2gCHMYCw/spokane%2Bsummer%2B2017-41_thumb?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="spokane summer 2017-41" width="800" /></a><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-JZUPIKgou90/WYOfuChWaFI/AAAAAAAAc-0/Nw4Laxt0wqwxFtY_r-b65072X6WnOlz6QCHMYCw/s1600-h/spokane%2Bsummer%2B2017-42%255B3%255D"><img alt="spokane summer 2017-42" border="0" height="1118" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-eVlE4N0looA/WYOfvv8JEWI/AAAAAAAAc-4/Np47m88kDQAgwq6q-DGNPVcbazYpwKEkwCHMYCw/spokane%2Bsummer%2B2017-42_thumb?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" title="spokane summer 2017-42" width="800" /></a><br />
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Surreal Little Dude. Art.<br />
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The impetus behind our visit: Big Dude's 30th high school reunion.<br />
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I might have eaten tons of berries every day. In the form of cobbler, ice cream, pie, cake, pancake, and waffle. <br />
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Went to Chaps for breakfast. It was indeed "sweet". If you're ever in Spokane, go.<br />
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Cloud splendor.<br />
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Salton Sea from above. This lake is HUGE. The biggest in CA, as a matter of fact (by area, not volume).<br />
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Coming back into SoCal... Home again, home again, jiggity jig.<br />
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<br />Skellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11021374799688814697noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8429965211044100252.post-25237490135572107812017-07-13T17:33:00.003-07:002017-07-13T17:33:51.356-07:001 Second Everyday: Jan-Feb 2017 editionBetter late than never, eh? Way back in the new year, Middle Dude had a "man bun" (it's gone now, btw) and College Kid was home between semesters. He got a new [to him] Soul [car, that is] and slept in. A Lot. My always annual Christmas cards became New Year's cards. There was weather and bodypump and crafts. We celebrated my big 5-0 and went to Hawaii. There was weather there, too. February included life mundane-ness & minutia plus a super neato trip to El Paso to visit <a href="http://julieriveraphotography.com/" target="_blank">Julie and her girls</a> with roadtrips to Carlsbad Caverns & White Sands NM. <br />
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Skellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11021374799688814697noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8429965211044100252.post-24413048755311268562017-06-23T16:09:00.001-07:002017-06-23T16:23:58.653-07:00Reagan LibraryWhenever my most favorite father- & mother-in-law come for a visit, we hit the road and go on some sight-seeing adventure. This time we were going to grab everyone and spend the day at Universal Studios. But when we heard rumor of the long lines & huge crowds and saw how much 7 tickets + parking was going to cost, we decided we would way prefer to go to the Reagan Library. (and the dudes all promptly decided to skip the library and go instead to their weekly ultimate frisbee game) Btw, all photos via my phone: LG G4<br />
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There were big crowds at the library, too; but no long lines for rides – woot!<br />
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Pete Souza is a photographer whose work I much admire. He has been the Chief Official White House Photographer for President Obama. But way before that, he was the Chief Official White House Photographer for President Reagan. It was delightful to see his imagery larger than life…<br />
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What a hoot this old 1744 map is. CA is shown as an island! A gift from Margaret Thatcher to Reagan…<br />
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This huge window and the scenery beyond it … beautiful.<br />
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A 10,000 jelly belly bean portrait …<br />
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Big Dude listens in on the summit between Reagan & Gorbachev …<br />
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And then, back at the ranch, he shares his insight and opinions with Ronnie while riding …<br />
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At the risk of dating myself, I was there on the day this happened … and he was sooo tickled. A fun memory.<br />
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Reagan by Rockwell …<br />
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“Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.” A piece of the wall …<br />
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And then we had to make our way thru Los Angeles traffic (bah. blech. phtooey. I’d go to more museums more often, if not for the traffic).<br />
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And one for the dudes. WAR is coming …<br />
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“Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom, and then lost it, have never known it again.” ~Ronald ReaganSkellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11021374799688814697noreply@blogger.com3