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My Wide Blue Seas

Its All About The Journey



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Name~ Hokule'a Kealoha

Short Bio~Hokule'a Kealoha is the Nom De Plume of a writer that formerly lived in Hawaii and is now living a life of adventure on the highways and byways of the American South . I am a Born Again follower of Jesus, as well as a wife, mother of cats and dogs,jeweler, entreprenuer, photographer and pilgrim...

Age~ Old enough to know better

Status~ Newly Single after 13 years of marriage,fur mom to the loving and devoted mini ShihTzu doggie Annabelle, born 6-11-2007 RIP 2-25-09, and the beautiful Abigail born 2-14-09

Hair Color~ natural brown/grey

Mood~ I ALWAYS have a mood, try me...

Loving~ Jesus, Hawaii, my furry friend, Abigail, my Pen Pals, Jewelry ,Blogging ,Writing anything,my Ipod,and being outdoors surrounded by my wonderful natural surroundings

Hating~ Boom Box Cars, Earspray, Abuse of Power,

Reading~
  • Bible


  • Magnificat


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  • Underwired! Louisville's magazine for Women


  • In Store~The Magazine for the American Jeweler



  • Books in Progress...
  • CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH


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  • Just Finished Reading

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  • Jesus, Divine Mercy ~
    Learn About The Divine Mercy
    I Trust In You~

    My Favorite Past Posts~Relive The Journey!~
    2009~
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  • 2008~
  • Be Thankful


  • Colateral Damage


  • Make Lemonade


  • Home Is Where The Heart Is


  • The Poor With Us


  • Because Its The Hardest Thing I Can Do


  • We Have All Become Victims


  • Lest I Forget


  • The Most Important Words


  • Family Values


  • Familiar Places


  • May Perpetual Light Shine On Them


  • A City In Motion


  • 2007~
  • The Quiet Storm


  • Fellowship of the Cane


  • Like Dead Unremembered: A 9-11 Tribute


  • The Medicine Machine


  • One Giant Leap


  • In The Steps of St. Francis


  • Too Much Information


  • The Un Choice


  • 2006~
  • The Holly and the Ivy


  • The First 9-11, Dec 7,1941


  • Small Moments of Silence


  • Peaches to Winnipeg


  • Dreaming of Hawaii


  • Memorial Day


  • Scattered Values


  • The White Line is the Lifeline for the Nation


  • Warnings of a New Civil War


  • I Will Be True To The Promise I Have Made


  • The Snowy Bloody Day


  • Cats in the Cradle


  • 2005~
  • The Journey


  • Rebirth of a City


  • For Posterity's Sake


  • The New Civil War


  • Every Mother's Son


  • And There You Stayed, Temporarily Lost at Sea


  • The Lone Rider


  • The Bible Is Not the Fourth Member of the Trinity


  • Rome Wasn't Built With Union Labor


  • Happy Birthday Mom ~revised~


  • A Beautiful Noise


  • Even Now


  • The Wearing of the Red


  • Night Ranger


  • The Joyful Traveler


  • Hoiliili "To Gather Up"


  • Ke Makakilo (My Observations)


  • He Giveth Sleep


  • Save The Children


  • 2004~
  • Lux Aeterna


  • December 2004


  • You're Joking, Right?


  • Ground Zero


  • I Am Not A Failure


  • O,To Grace, How Great A Debtor


  • Lost In Translation


  • One Small Step for Man


  • The Rainbow's End


  • Profanity


  • Taps


  • The Journey


  • Makoa's Song


  • No Aloha For The Weakest


  • The Paradoxical Comandments


  • The Time Is Now


  • 2003~
  • When No Fruit Is On The Vine



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    St Teresa Benedicta of the Cross
    St. Edith Stein~Pray for Us

    Religion Link List~

  • My Secret is Mine


  • Ignatius Insight-Online Magazine


  • Fr John Corapi SOLT


  • Dr. Scott Hahn St Paul Center


  • Fr. Mitch Pacwa~ Ignatius Productions


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  • Political Link List~
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  • Arkansas Link List~
  • Little Portion Hermitage


  • John Michael Talbot website


  • John Michael Talbot Myspace page


  • 1st United Methodist Church Bella Vista


  • Northwest Arkansas Guide



  • Mimi's Cafe


  • Metro Woman Business Directory of NW Arkansas


  • River Grille


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  • Interactive Links~

    Live WebCam Feed from the Mauna Lani Resort, Kohalla, Big Island of Hawaii


    Click here for Aloha Joe!Live Hawaiian Music 24/7

    St Damein of Molokai'i,Patron Saint of Hawaii, Pray for us

    St. Damien of Molokai'i, Patron of Hawaii and the Outcasts among us, pray for us....

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    Hawaii Links~ ~
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  • Volcano Updates (Pele's Mood Meter)Hawaii Volcano Observatory

  • Hawaii Volcanoes National Park

  • Volcano Watch Archives

  • Mauna Kea Observatory

  • Pacific Tsunami Museum

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  • Technorotica for Blogging~





    Blogarama - The Blog Directory

    Listed on BlogShares


    Christianity Blog Directory


  • Who Links Here...Click here to see who's linking to this site. Powered by WhoLinksToMe.com

  • Globe of Blogs~Blog search engine

  • The Blog Search Engine

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  • BlogSkins

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  • Wikipedia



  • Nuzio's Place on the Web


  • Commutefaster.com


  • PING ME!


  • MWBS Wordpress Edition


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  • Technorotica for Jewelers, and the Jewelry Trade~

  • Gemological Institute of America


  • The Drouhard National Jewelers School


  • The Conner School



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  • December 29, 2004

    To a Penpal...


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    Today I want to celebrate my most enduring relationships, outside of my Mother and my brother, and you know, you cant pick family...

    Over Christmas break in 1974, I embarked on...well this is more than a hobby. For me the people that I write to are as much a part of my family, and are my friends as are those that I see face to face. At times they were my only support group and cheerleading squad, and when I am alone, nothing cheers me up quite like reading either a new letter just arrived or an old one waiting for an answer...

    I estimate that I have written to over 500 different people in the course of these past thirty years. Each person has a story and it unfolds as we get to know each other. Pen palling its self has given me lots of funny stories to tell... for example..

    When I was struggling through my first Christmas season without my first husband in 1988, I began to receive more than my usual one or two "introduction" letters (people wanting a new pal) a month. I was getting 5 to 10 then 15 then 30...every day I got more and more of them. They came bundled, stuffed through the mail slot of my lonely house, I was astonished. I was amazed when the mail was on my front porch in BUCKETS...I opened then all, but stopped counting them at 500. I only answered a relative few, and perhaps that was 30-40 I dont remember, but out of that came my core group that I have been writing to since for over 15 years... I told every pal I wrote to at the time about this marvelous, mysterious flood of mail and how every night I looked forward to it... to reading each letter from every corner of the earth... Finally, my pal Avis, in Singapore, confessed that she placed my name in a number of English penpal journals, as she thought that " I was lonely and needed something to do and maybe I could find a new husband and... and... and hoped that I was not angry with her... (Never) The flood abated but trickled on for the next FIVE years...

    I will bless her name for the rest of my days...

    As a lonely teen that was barely able to express herself with a pen, it taught me to "think about how the reader will understand your writing, and to write carefully. I went on to get an 800 on the English portion of my SAT (we wont talk about the math portion, I am mathematically still illiterate)The stories of peers in diverse places like East Germany, Poland, Israel, Korea, India and the former USSR, living under difficult conditions, helped me to see that while I had it hard in a lot of ways, I was blessed beyond imagining. I wrote to young and old, men and women. I have been proposed to, proselytized (both by Muslims) scorned for my faith and a dear Russian lady wished to adopt me. I witnessed through their eyes the fall of the Iron Curtain with a Lithuanian German pal describing the night the wall fell for she was there with he husband and a sledgehammer! I have gained an insight on the world and that nothing can match short of going there yourself.

    Parents, I can think of no better way to broaden a child's horizons then to help them have a friend on the other side of the world ... It is a special thing

    I give a hug and a Lei and dedicate the following poem sent to me years ago by my beloved Iris, from Germany , (my sister that has a different mother I think) to all of my pals that are currently writing to me... First my core group

    Iris ~ Germany
    John W. ~ England
    Allison ~ England
    Wendy ~ England
    Janina ~ Lithuania-Germany
    Dolly ~ Hong Kong
    Vigdis ~ Norway
    Andrea ~ Germany

    then my newer friends

    Germanee~ Texas
    Lisa~ England
    Lauren~ New York
    Juathena~ Oklahoma
    Carolyn~ Illinois
    Jennifer~ Alaska
    LeighAnn ~ Ohio
    Emese ~ Hungary
    Mary B~ Alaska
    Judy A ~ Arizona
    Judy C ~ Washington
    Karin ~ Illinois
    Kathy C ~ Iowa
    Maureen ~ England
    Kim ~ California
    Tina ~ Michigan
    James ~ Arkansas
    Elizabeth ~ England
    Suzanne ~ Belgium
    Delores ~ Arkansas
    Irina ~ Ukraine
    Marina ~ Russia
    Jean ~ Montana
    Sherry ~ Texas
    Edith~ Kentucky
    Paris ~ Australia
    Colin ~ New Zealand
    Cat ~ Canada
    Debbie ~ Massachusetts
    Nancy ~ California
    Shirley ~ Idaho
    Louise ~ Alabama
    Carol ~ Virginia
    Linda ~ Wyoming
    Carin~ Ohio
    Angelika~ Germany
    Teresa ~ N. Carolina
    Jay ~ Ohio
    Rachel ~ S. Carolina
    Patti ~ California
    Rene ~ Cuba
    Louise R. ~ Pennsylvania
    Cornelia~ Switzerland
    Marilyn ~ Michigan
    Arlene ~ Rhode Island
    Yonnie ~ Illinois
    Ruth ~ Florida
    Mary Anne ~ New Hampshire
    Carole ~ England
    Nancy ~ Kansas
    Natasha ~ Ukraine
    Ingrid ~ the Netherlands
    Sheila ~ England
    Keiko ~ Japan
    Kathy ~ Illinois
    Pairvi ~ Finland
    Margie ~ N Carolina
    Dara ~ New Jersey




    To A Pen Pal

    We have been friends for a number of years now. I don't remember who wrote first, but it will never matter. You cheer me up when I am at my lowest and I share your hopes and fears. We talk of everyday occurrences as if we were neighbors. There are times I need to talk to someone, and those closest to me won't do. I need an unbiased opinion, and so I pick up my pen and paper and write to you. You don't give me flowery phrases, you give me honesty and warmth. I can count on you and expect you to do the same. I know that it is possible that we will never meet, but no matter, it just might spoil something perfect. We never have to dust the house or straighten a room to visit. We have coffee together, though we are miles apart. When the postman brings me only bills, my disappointment stays with me for hours. I worry when I don't hear from you, hoping that you are not ill. We write in the early hours of the morning and late into the night. We share a special kind of trust which enables us to share the deepest secrets of our hearts. You know my faults and accept me just as I am, seeing only the best side of my nature. I thank you for your faith in me,and your kind human ways. I thank God for having let me find you, my special friend...


    God Bless You each and every one... I am proud to call you friends




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    My other Blogs~

  • Its All About The Journey~Reshaping My Life,One Pound At A Time

  • My Wide Green Fields~~ The Ohio Journey

  • Hokule'a~~Star of Gladness- A Poetry Blog

  • Lux Aeterna-A Memorial Blog dedicated to those affected by the events of 9-11-2001

  • Hawaii Calls! News Views and Links from the Big Island of Hawaii

  • Remembering Annabelle


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    Blogs I am reading~

    Pretty Nearly Daily Reads ~

  • 922 Cats

  • Collecting My Thoughts


  • Texas Trifles

  • Shiloh Musings

  • Smoothstone...

  • Attitude of Gratitude


  • LaShawn Barber's Corner

  • Journal Of A Writing Man


  • Regeneration


  • Wheelie Catholic


  • Insightscoop


  • Bloggers over 50


  • Koinonikon-Margi


  • Christ Is In Our Midst

  • Daily Weaving


  • Glory To God For All Things


  • The Eleventh~ a blog


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    Blogs of the Ozarks, and the Tri State Region~

  • Live! From Paradise!

  • Steph's Gonna Win!

  • The More Excellent Way

  • ...just another day in paradise...

  • Deo Volente

  • When Kate Blogs

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    Focus on Israel ~~~

  • Smoothstone...

  • Jack's Random Thoughts

  • Me-Ander



  • Solomonia

  • Shiloh Musings

  • Jewish in a Gentile World





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    Abigail Valentine, my little darling ~



    Fave Dog Blogs ~


  • Chihuahua Craziness

  • Miss Sadie Shih-Tzu

  • Raina Roo's and Kitty's too puppy blog

  • Bailey's Buddy

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    Annabelle my Beloved ~

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    May She Rest In Peace 2-25-2009 ~

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