Tough Times

I just got wind of the news. HART has been able to get the record of when the property owners were complaining that the evaluations for property taxes were too high. The prices may have gone up but they will use your price to buy your property. They have to make Big Bucks and somebody has to contribute for the good of the Present Rail Party.

"Our strength does not come from what we can do - it comes from overcoming the things we once thought we could not do."

We may have to dance in the streets.

HBDA seems to be doing pretty good in Aiea but they keep it pretty well hidden. May be for HBDA members only, we don't know. One Aiea club is more oriented with Downtown Honolulu, the rest seem to be coasting. We don't hear anything about line dancing but they have been mostly private clubs.

But this blog is just holding up in hits and needs some news from any Two Center out there. One willing to contribute their two cents for the benefit of their friends, relatives and fellow dancers. A photo the gang with the location, occasion and the first names. Would be a beautiful starter.

Pub's Side Note: "Not everything that counts can be counted,

and not everything that can be counted counts."

Tough Times

I just got wind of the news. HART has been able to get the record of when the property owners were complaining that the evaluations for property taxes were too high. The prices may have gone up but they will use your price to buy your property. They have to make Big Bucks and somebody has to contribute for the good of the Present Rail Party.

"Our strength does not come from what we can do - it comes from overcoming the things we once thought we could not do."

We may have to dance in the streets.

HBDA seems to be doing pretty good in Aiea but they keep it pretty well hidden. May be for HBDA members only, we don't know. One Aiea club is more oriented with Downtown Honolulu, the rest seem to be coasting. We don't hear anything about line dancing but they have been mostly private clubs.

But this blog is just holding up in hits and needs some news from any Two Center out there. One willing to contribute their two cents for the benefit of their friends, relatives and fellow dancers. A photo the gang with the location, occasion and the first names. Would be a beautiful starter.

Pub's Side Note: "Not everything that counts can be counted,

and not everything that can be counted counts."

The Journey Around the Sun

Tomorrow on Friday, I will have completed my 89th journey around the sun on this space ship Earth. For many it is a short life, but I consider myself very lucky. I am recovering very nicely with a big assist from the VA. I am still using my walker but I hope to wean myself to a cane and I have my hopes that I will dance again.

I have seen better days but believe me i have also seen worse.

I don't have everything that I want but I have everything I need.

I wake up with aches and pains, but I did wake up.

My life may not be perfect but I live in a Paradise
on the Waianae Coast that is good enough for me.

The Blogs are adjusting themselves very nicely and it all depends on the Two Centers and the possible Guest Authors. I am pretty close to the point of diminishing returns for myself only. But I am beginning to know my way around blogging, enough to know that SOS can only go so far.

"I Remember You" by Don Ho

I have four Twitters, a Facebook, Pinterest and Google + to help promote the blogs and they are working. No magic thing, just takes work, and I am limited. The total hits on the blogs go up ever so slowly and I have cut down on the number of blogs that I do per week.

"Morning Dew" by Melveen Leed

Town Dancer has been completely taken over by hackers and Blogger cannot do anything about it. They can even change the names in the stats. So I have no choice but to put this blog in stand by and wait. The other guest authors can do as they wish as per usual.

From the Rubaiyat by Omar Khayyam

Come, fill the Cup, and in the fire of Spring

Your Winter garment of Repentance fling:

The Bird of Time has but a litle way

To flutter - and the Bird is on the Wing.

Whether at  Naishapur or Babylon,

Whether the Cup with sweet or bitter run,

The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop,

The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one. 

We Progress?

Perhaps it is only my imagination but the traffic on Farrington Highway is getting worse. It is piled up in Nanakuli at 12 noon. And our local legislators cannot do anything because the money has to go for the Rail Catastrophe. And the Present Rail Party has other plans for the residents of the West. They are talking Big Bucks and they are making it now, The residents are due to suffer even more while the Rail Disaster is building and who knows how much worse it will get when it is built before it is torn down again.

Beautiful Waipahu and after. when they install the monstrosity.

As the Present Rail Party says, "Bunch of ethnics anyway

and they don't matter."

Waianae is making more of an effort to build something on its own so that it will count less on the horrible situation in Honolulu. There will be more Industrial Parks in spite of the stumbling blocks. More shopping Centers, drinking establishments and a night life somewhere on the Coast.

Someday in the near future we will have something like this and the people all over will come to the Waianae Coast because there is where it is happening. Shall we dream on?

Dancing Fun Windward

By Fred Matsugane, Kailua

Personal Benefits of Ballroom and Nightclub Social Dancing:

On a personal level, dancing helps us all of us ordinary people to balance the male and female aspects of our personality. In our kind of dancing one has the opportunity to learn and understand the many aspects of the two roles of social dance.

This provides us the opportunity to balance the feminine and masculine in our own personality, socially, sexually, sensuously, mentally, and spiritually. We should all be aware that our spirit/soul/body/mind needs this balance. Dancing is one of the very few disciplines that teaches and provides us the tools to learn how to truly “stay in the moment” and to “be in the moment,” because you are required by dancing to do so.

Dancing provides us the opportunity to conquer many small and large fears socially, physically, and personally. These tools will naturally transfer to our personal, business, and social world. Dancing develops personal confidence, pride, self esteem, a sense of accomplishment, and patience.

"Somewhere Over The Rainbow" by Bruddah Iz

Dancing helps us to learn how to set our ego aside while we learn new skills. Dancing helps us to gradually be more connected and comfortable with our body. Dancing teaches us how to have FUN when learning something new whether taking classes at a dance club or just having fun in a nightclub.

Most importantly Ballroom and Nightclub Dancing assists us to integrate all levels of who we are into one whole and complete human being! Naturally a dancing human being! Therefore, get out on the dance floor and have fun! Life is dancing with special people! Enjoy life and dance!

Pub's Note: We are still waiting and hoping to get some communication from the Neighbor Islands. We get "flyer kine" stuff but nothing for the readers and potential reader/dancers of these Islands. Sooner or later.

"If you look over your left shoulder and it is saying to do this

and your other shoulder says do that. Then just follow

your heart and you will be ok."

Nuttin' Doin'

Moanalua Corridor still looks promising but I lack Information Contributors - the Two Centers. The two Studios and the Night Clubs (think "money"). Not too many are fully aware of what a Blog is. The blog will remain open (because of the Good People) but I will cool it for a while. The hits are going down.

"Spending the day complaining about yesterday,

will not make tomorrow any better."

Since I have spread myself too thin, this a terrific opportunity to play around with. I even extended the territory to include West Kalihi. I should make some kind of decision by the end of the year. It will depend largely on the horrible effect of the Rail Disaster. At one time Moanalua Corridor "coulda been a contendah!"

"La Comparsita" by Edmundo Rios

What will save this blog and send it up in hits is the Two Centers and the guest authors. They do not have to be journalists, writer, authors or whatever high class terms you wish to use. If we can just get some dance information to share with our friends, relatives and fellow dancers

Most of our dance organizations are oligarchies but we may be phasing into a more democratic form through blogs and the many Two Centers and Guest Authors that will evolve. It may change to be the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be. Some political theorists have argued that all societies are inevitably oligarchies, regardless of their supposed political system. So what do I know?

Nuttin' Doin'

Moanalua Corridor still looks promising but I lack Information Contributors - the Two Centers. The two Studios and the Night Clubs (think "money"). Not too many are fully aware of what a Blog is. The blog will remain open (because of the Good People) but I will cool it for a while. The hits are going down.

"Spending the day complaining about yesterday,

will not make tomorrow any better."

Since I have spread myself too thin, this a terrific opportunity to play around with. I even extended the territory to include West Kalihi. I should make some kind of decision by the end of the year. It will depend largely on the horrible effect of the Rail Disaster. At one time Moanalua Corridor "coulda been a contendah!"

"La Comparsita" by Edmundo Rios

What will save this blog and send it up in hits is the Two Centers and the guest authors. They do not have to be journalists, writer, authors or whatever high class terms you wish to use. If we can just get some dance information to share with our friends, relatives and fellow dancers

Most of our dance organizations are oligarchies but we may be phasing into a more democratic form through blogs and the many Two Centers and Guest Authors that will evolve. It may change to be the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be. Some political theorists have argued that all societies are inevitably oligarchies, regardless of their supposed political system. So what do I know?