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Greetings,

"Food nourishes the body; music, the soul."

Favorite male music artists: 
Keali`i Reichel
(clips)
Israel Kamakawiwo`ole (clips)
The Makaha Sons (clips)
Dennis Pavao (clips)

Josh Groban (entire CD is at his site)


Kenny Rankin (clips)
Roy Orbison (clips)
Michael Franks (clips)
George Harrison

Favorite female music artists: 
Teresa Bright
Patsy Cline
(clips)  - KD Lang (clips)
Carole King  (clips)
Karen Carpenter  (clips)
Judy Collins  (clips)

"Sing as if no one were listening, 
dance as if no one were watching,
love as if you've never been hurt,
 and live each day as if it were your last."

Favorite songs:
Peaceful (lyrics) by Kenny Rankin
Kawaipunahele (lyrics) by Keali`i Reichel
Lei Hali`a by Puakea Nogelmeier
Kaleohano (lyrics) by Louis Moon Kauakahi
Greensleeves (lyrics) - Scarborough Fair
(clip

Favorite songs about favorite things:
My Favorite Things
Sunrise, Sunset
Almost Like Being in Love
Whistle a Happy Tune 
Somewhere Over the Rainbow

Favorite Beatles tunes:
Here Comes the Sun
In My Life

Norwegian Wood
Ob-la-di, Ob-la-da
*  My Sweet Lord

Favorite pieces of classical music: 
Canon in D by Pachelbel
Clair de Lune by Debussy
The Four Seasons by Vivaldi
Air by Johann Sebastian Bach
Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring by Johann Sebastian Bach

"Live each day as if it were your last 
and make it a masterpiece!"



Favorite artists:
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Vincent van Gogh
Rembrandt van Rijn
Ansel Adams
Pablo Picasso

Favorite art: 
*  Pieta & Sistine Chapel by Michelangelo
*
  Sistine Chapel by Michelangelo
A Starry Night  (text) by van Gogh
Irises (text) by van Gogh (text)
Hendrickje Bathing in the River (text) by Rembrandt van Rijn

"Life is about joy, not tolerance." 

Favorite actors:
John Travolta
*  Tom Cruise
Chow Yun-Fat

Russell Wong
Mike Farrell
*  Richard Dean Anderson (MacGyver)

Favorite actresses: 
Audrey Hepburn
Bette Midler
Michelle Pfeiffer 
Julia Roberts
Shirley Temple

Favorite Disney characters/stars: 
Belle of The Beauty and the Beast
*  Little Shepherd of Catalina
Bambi
Tramp
Tinkerbelle

Favorite movies: 
The Enchanted April (book)
Life is Beautiful
Like Water for Chocolate (text)
Jerry Maguire (script)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (MB)

Favorite childhood movies: 
Where the Red Fern Grows
Fantasia
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
It's a Wonderful Life
(sounds)
Bambi

 

"If you live each day as if it were your last, 
you'll be filled with tubes and coughing up blood!"
 
~ Alfred E. Newman 

Favorite funny men:
Bill Cosby, author of Cosbyology
Johnny Carson.
Steve Martin
Robin Williams
Will Rogers

Favorite funny women:
Ellen DeGeneris
of The Ellen Show
Rosie O'Donnell of The Rosie O'Donnell Show
Rita Rudner
Mary Tyler Moore of The MTM Show

 

"Getting to Know You, 
Getting to Know All About You..."

~ Rodger & Hammerstein from The King and I

Favorite TV shows:
Sunday Morning
:  2 CBS, 6:00 am
The View:  7 ABC, 10:00 am
Oprah:  7 ABC,  3:00 pm
Frasier:  4 NBC, Tues, 9:00 pm
Lassie

Favorite TV hosts
Oprah Winfrey
Barbara Walters
Huell Howser
Diane Sawyer 

Favorite plays: 
Phantom of the Opera (with Michael Crawford)
The King and I
Flower Drum Song
Same Time, Next Year
On Golden Pond

"Live each day as if it were your last. 
Learn as though you were going to live forever."


Favorite authors: 
Richard Bach
Dean Koontz
Henry David Thoreau
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Ruth Montgomery
Napoleon Hill

Favorite books:  
Illusions by Richard Bach
*  Watchers by Dean Koontz
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
Hawai`i by James A. Michener
Alaska by James A. Michener
Centennial by James A. Michener
The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving Stone
Companions Along the Way by Ruth Montgomery
The Magnificent Obsession by Lloyd C. Douglas
*  Anything by Napoleon Hill, especially Think and Grow Rich

*  Anything by W. Clement Stone
*  The Good Book

Favorite children's books: 
Golden Books
Horton Hatches the Egg
Little House on the Prairie books
The Secret Garden
*  Harry Potter books (links)

Favorite poems:  
"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"  
"The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost, 
"The Lake Isle of Innisfree" by Wm. Butler Yeats
*  "Song of the Open Road" by Walt Whitman
*   all poems by Emily Dickinson

Favorite quotes: 
  Desiderata by Max Ehrmann
*   Waging peace. Random acts of kindness.
*   I can. I will. I can because I will.
*   To create is to live.
*   Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart. 
~Confucius
*  Diversity is something positive. Identical people have nothing to offer each other.

Favorite words:   
ambrosia, angelic, blessing, bliss, blue, bunny, butterfly, calm, caress, celestial, cerise, charisma, creativity, crystalline, daffodil, dawn, darling, dear, delicious, desire, dew, divinity, dolphin, effervescent, elegance, eloquence, enchanting, enlightening, exuberance, epiphany, essence, eternity, fairy, faith, fawn, fluffy, free, gentle, glistening, glow, glory, grace, happy, harmony, home, honeydew, honor, hope, journey, joy, juicy, kindness, kisses, love, lullaby, luminescence, lyrical, melody, mercy, moonlight, morning, muse, mysterious, mystical, peace, puppy, purple, quiescent, quintessential, rain, rainbow, radiance, renaissance, rest, saffron, satin, serenity, serendipity, simplicity, sincerity, sky, snowflake, soft, sparkling, splendiferous, starlight, subtle, sunlight, sunshine, synchrony, tranquillity, trusting, twinkle, whisper, wonderful, zephyr

Least favorite words: 
anal, angst, anxious, barf, belch, betrayal, bigot, booger, bugger, can't, crabby, crud, crude, despair, detest, diarrhea, doodoo, dork, doubt, dung, entrails, erysipelas, failure, fatty, fault, flunk, fool, foul, freak,glutton, goiter, gout, gripe, gross, grubby, grunt, guacamole, guilty, gunk, guts, hate, heinous, hell, hemorrhoid, horrible, horror, hurt, hyena, hypocrisy, idiot, infidelity, jab, jugular, junk, kill, lie, loser, maggot, malignant, mean, mooch, mucous, never, penal, pervert, phlegm, phony, pissed, puke, putrid, rancid, rape, reek, refuse, rotten, rut, scum, slime, spit, spite, sucks, tofu, treachery, ugly, ulcer, victuals, vomit, wart, wretchedness, zit  

Favorite metaphors:  
*  Poetry is the very marrow of the bones of feeling. 

* Her words of encouragement were pebbles delicately tossed in the pond, causing a pleasing pattern of happiness and effort in her students. 
 
*  You're sweet; good enough to eat.
 
*  Prayer, God's breath in man returning to his birth ~Herbert

* The remarkable metaphor of Merlin. ~TA Barron

Favorite similes:  
*  Life is like a bowl of cherries; sometimes it's sweet and tangy, and sometimes it's the pits. 

*  A mind is a lot like a parachute; it doesn't work unless it's open. 

*  My love is like a red, red rose. ~Robert Burns 

*  "And so I passed the night with her like a thirsty little camel whose muzzle keeps it from nursing." ~Ibn Hazm

Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides. ~Rita Mae Brown, writer (1944- ) 

Favorite teachers:  
Pre-School & Elementary School: Alana Lee, Isabelle Pereira, Donna Weiss Saiki
Intermediate School: Vivian Araujo Stephenson, music appreciation teacher; Virginia Isbell, Girl Scout leader; Isaac Keli`ipi`o, guardian, mentor, instructor, and lifeguard.
High School: Nancy White, Chemistry teacher & Dr. Kenneth Rewick, headmaster & Preparation for Life Teacher
College: Dr. Don Whitehead, professor of Ecology, Dr. May, professor of Religion; & Dr. John Griffin, researcher
School of Life:  Dad, Lucky, Grandmother Satsuma, Grandfather I, Lanikaula, Mary Kawena Pukui, Maleka `Ohi`a, Sinkar, Silver Feather, and Florence. 


"Live each day as if it were your last.
 It's an extremelystressful way to live,
 but it does motivate a person."
~ Michael J. Nelson, "Life 101"

Favorite magazines:
Reader's Digest
National Geographic
Smithsonian
O Magazine
More
Book

Favorite E-zines : 
Salon
The Onion
Wired
Island Scene
The Third Age

Favorite websites: 
Artchives - Arts & Letters Daily
Blue Mountain - Pacific Expressions
dictionary.com - Merriam-Webster
Drudge Report
Reference Desk

Favorite newspapers: 
LA TimesOC Register
Honolulu Star-Bulletin - Honolulu Advertiser
NY Times
USA Today
BB Grizzly

Favorite comic strips: 
Corky - Corky's HI
- Corky SB
For Better or Worse
Get Fuzzy
Rose is Rose
Spooner

Favorite columns: 
*  L Smith - C Adams - A Archerd - R Reed
George Will
Salon columnists
W Harada - Dave Donnelly - J Berger
City of Angles - Al Martinez - C Erskine

Favorite search engine: 
google.com.



Other Lists  of 5:
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Gracefully yours
*  Rob's
*  Tera's Wish

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"Life is a Gift."

Living each day as it were my last, as tomorrow is not promised,
Author Unknown

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