I. M. Panayotopoulos, tr. by Kimon Friar, from Modern Greek Poetry; “The Frozen Moon,”

Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

— Zig Ziglar

Smoot oparator

“I smelt your scent on a seatbelt,” he sings on Cornerstone, which may just be the best thing Arctic Monkeys have ever recorded. The lyrics are a dazzling display of what Turner can do: a fabulously witty, poignant evocation of lost love, packed with weirdly suggestive details. The music is a long, wistful acoustic sigh, the melody so effortlessly lovely that you can’t believe no one’s come up with it before.

— Alexis Petridis

Clarice Lispector, from “A Breath of Life”, published posthumously in Brazil in the late 1970s

The Lei Maker, 1901

Theodore Wores

Honolulu Museum of Art

The Red Queen, Pele

My final painting for this semester’s art class. Finding Home, based on the story of Pele coming to the Hawaiian islands.

A Pantheon of Volcano Spirits

Kamapua'a, the hog god; a mischievous spirit of rain, moisture and plant life. He was Pele’s lover, but in all ways her opposite. Theirs was a stormy relationship. Poliahu, goddess of snowy Mauna Kea – a sister and a jealous rival to Pele locked in an eternal ice and fire enmity. Pele’s sisters, Kapo and Laka, two personalities of the same spirit – one a spirit of fertility and sorcery, the other a spirit of the dance. Hi'iaka, a spirit of the dance, was Pele’s favorite sister. Pele, appearing as a beautiful young woman and as an old hag. Ka-moho-ali'i, respected elder brother and keeper of the water of life. As a great shark he led Pele to Hawaii. Lonomakua, keeper of the sacred fire sticks, made volcanic fires at Pele’s command. Ka-poho-i-kahi-ola, spirit of explosions. Ke-ua-a-ke-po, spirit of the rain of fire. Kane-hekili, spirit of thunder. Ke-o-ahi-kama-kaua, spirit of lava fountains. (left to right)

Daughters of the Sea - Herb Kane

This would be a dream come true.

pretty woman (1990)

- william shakespeare