Tuesday, September 6, 2022

Clothing the Ephemeral

A L O H A From Honolulu!

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We should learn to savor
some moments to let
time feel worth existing Munia Khan



Wild Chickens of Oahu
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There are more chickens
in the world than any
other kind of bird.
Rachel Smith


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Recent discoveries have confirmed one of the other suggestions made since the 1920's, that chicken were brought across the Pacific, island by island, by Polynesians, in
ancient times.

David Scrivener




More Fabric/Graphics from the
Okinawan Festival, HonoluluImage

Clothes make the man.
Naked people have little
or no influence on society.
Mark Twain





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It is as though the fabric
were indeed a natural
extension of the body,
or even of the soul. Quentin Bell



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What you wear is how you
present yourself to the world,
especially today, when human
contacts are so quick.
Fashion is instant language. Miuccia Prada


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Life is mostly froth and bubble,
Two things stand like stone.
Kindness in another's trouble,
Courage in your own.
Adam Lindsay Gordon


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Love You,
 Pixie & Cloudia
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in feathers, the helmet, worn
with a long feathered cape,
would have offered
physical and spiritual protection
during battle and signified social
and spiritual power
during ceremonial rites."
Anne D’Alleva Link

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"Hawaiian Chief’s Cloak and Helmet
Repatriated After 241 Years"
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