Books by Patti Liszkay available on Amazon: "Equal And Opposite Reactions" http://amzn.to/2xvcgRa "Hail Mary" https://www.amzn.com/1684334888 "Tropical Depression" https://www.amzn.com/B0BTPN7NYY Return To Kamehameha Ukulele...Continued from 4/21/2024: The day Tom and I arrived in Honolulu, Saturday, March 23, we took a walk along the beach, then headed towards downtown Waikiki (see post from 4/15/2024, https://www.ailantha.com/blog/if-you-wanna-be-where-the-people-are-come-to-honolulu-during-spring-break). Along our way we passed the Kamehameha Ukulele store, ....where last year I began my journey to becoming a ukulele player, thanks to Ron, a college student whose evening job was sales clerking and teaching lessons for Kamehameha Ukulele, ...and who agreed to give me an immersive ukulele lesson each day for my five remaining days in Honolulu (see post from 5/9/2023 https://www.ailantha.com/blog/i-ukulelist). Now I wanted to go inside and see if my teacher was still there. I wanted to thank him and let him know how much I loved playing my ukulele, both solo and with my two Ohio ukulele groups, the Licking County Ukulele Club, ...and the Buckeye Ukulele Society. And also, if possible, I wanted to play for my teacher my favorite ukulele song, "I Don't Want To Set The World On Fire," an old tune from the 1930's sung by a golden-voiced African American group of that time called The Ink Spots, ...that I love playing on my ukulele. We went into the ukulele store and Ron wasn't there, but the young sales clerk who was informed us that Ron would be working the following night at the Kamehameha store at the Waikiki Marriott. And so the next evening Tom and I walked - and I toted my ukulele - the mile from our Hotel, the Hale Koa, through downtown Waikiki along Kalakaua Avenue, ...to the Marriott Resort &Spa. When we found the Kamehameha Ukulele Store inside the hotel we could see through the glass front that Ron was teaching a group class, and so we sat in the lobby for a while where we enjoyed listening to a singer performing Hawaiian songs. "I knew it was you!" Ron laughed when we entered the store. His friend from the other store had texted him and told him that a couple of folks were looking for him, apparently giving him a pretty good description of us. As Ron was agreeable to hearing me play, I pulled out my uke and played "I Don't Want To Set The World On Fire." To my surprise, he said he'd like to learn the song. And so I told him I'd send him the music and we made an appointment for me to meet him at the Kamehameha store at the Hilton Hawaiian Village, which happens to be next door to the Hale Koa, ...and where Ron would be working the following Tuesday evening, at which time I'd teach him to play the song. I showed up on Tuesday at the store with my ukulele and, wonder of wonder, I who was the student one year ago, ...was this time the teacher. It was so neat.
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This morning I happened to go to Meijer's, our local supermarket/department store, ...for my COVID shot and to do a little shopping. At the store entrance an employee was handing out Earth Day reusable shopping bags, which I thought was a very nice and appropriate thing to be doing on this Earth Day. I accepted my reusable Meijer Earth Day bag and set it in my cart along with the other reusable shopping bags that I had brought with me. I got my COVID shot, then afterwards while strolling through the store I passed the clearance rack in the women's clothing section where I found this cute shirt, ...which I decided to buy. I checked out at the self-check, and after I scanned my shirt I removed the plastic and metal hangar and walked over to the self-check assistance lady to give her the hanger, which I didn't want or need, for the store to reuse. "Oh, if you don't want that hangar just throw it in the trash," said the assistance lady. "What?" I said, "I should...throw it into the trash?" "Yeah, go ahead and throw it in that trash can right there," said the lady. "We don't want it." I stood momentarily flummoxed, hangar in hand. Then I tossed the hangar into one of my earth-friendly reusable shopping bags. I took the hangar home where it now hangs in my closet supporting my new shirt along side the other hangars that support all my other clothes. I fear that that from now on I will have to take home every plastic and metal hangar from every piece of clothing I ever buy again, lest I leave it at the store from whence it will end up tossed upon the ever-growing planetary landfill. Then, after I've crossed over the rainbow bridge, my environmentally-conscious children will have to take all the plastic and metal store hangars stuffed into my closet and stuff them into their closets, just as some day their children will have to stuff them into theirs, and their children into theirs, per omnia secula seculorum.
Happy Earth Day, everyone. Another Spring, Another Visit To The Hale Koa...Continued from previous post: Besides a beautiful public park and beach in Waikiki, Fort DeRussy is also home to the U.S. Army Museum of Hawaii, which is free to the public, ...and the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies. Next to the park and also part of Fort DeRussy is the Hale Koa, the hotel where we stayed, which offers lodgings to active duty members of the military as well as to military retirees (see previous post). One enters the Hale Koa through a vast, open-air lobby, ...that overlooks Honolulu on one side, ...and on the other side a courtyard planted with tropical flora and fauna , ...in the center of which is a massive and well-loved Indian Banyan tree named Gus, ...that, snap as many times as I might, I can never quite get a photograph of that captures its glory. At night the lobby and the courtyard are lit up with a magical glow, ...as was the view from our room. The courtyard opens into a botanical garden, ...within which is a secluded pool. On other side of the garden is Happy's, ...the Barefoot Bar, ...an aquatics complex on the beach with an infinity pool and children's area, ...a beach-side snack bar. ...and the path that leads to Waikiki beach, this section of which is also technically military property, but also public property. In fact, all beaches in Hawaii are public property. Which is as it should be. ...to be continued.
At Fort DeRussy, Nation Does Not Take Up Gun Against Nation, Nor Will They Train For War Anymore4/18/2024 |
"Tropical Depression"
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