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A Journal by Barbara Uechi
The Woman from HOVE
The Woman from HOVE

I’ve lived in Hawaii all of my life, most of it on the largest island that’s also called Hawaii. When I was in grade school, there was a weekly hometown newspaper

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“It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.”- Elizabeth Taylor. Day 75/100. #mydad #patience #the100dayproject #collage #6x6 #dothe100dayproject #dothe100dayproject202
“Liberty doesn’t work as well in practice as it does in speeches.”- Will Rogers. Day 74/100. #petlife #fish #collage #the100dayproject #6x6 #dothe100dayproject #dothe100dayproject2025 #lauhalamat
“Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart’s desire.”- John Dewey. I often wonder what I would remember if I had no photographs of my past. Sketchy, perhaps, but who’d be holding the pencil? Da
“Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.”- Victor Hugo. Day 72/100. #collage #familytree #favoritequotes #victorhugo #relativeunknown #the100day
“Do not tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don’t tell them where they know the fish.”- Mark Twain. Day 71/100: The sisters had their sources. #collage #sisters #armedfish #marktwain #the100dayproject #6
“Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.”- Samuel Smiles. Day 70/100: My maternal grandparents, proud citizens. #collage #grandparents #flagwavers #AANHPIHM #HeritageMonth #samuelsm
“No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never full fruition.”- William Osler. Day 69/100: Long Ago and F
“Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.”- Ralph Waldo Emerson. Day 68/100: May Day is Lei Day! #fred #stockcarracer #collage #ralphwaldoemersonquotes #the100dayproject #dothe100dayproject #dothe100dayproj
“Because children grow up, we think a child’s purpose is to grow up. But a child’s purpose is to be a child.”- Tom Stoppard, The Coast of Utopia. Day 67/100: The Coconut Bowl? @gravitymonkey before he grew up. #youngerbrother
“If I see an ending, I can work backward.”- Arthur Miller. Day 66/100: Clara avoided reversing. This is definitely a false image. #mymama #arthurmiller #collage #oldfamilyphotos #parking #6x6 #the100dayproject #dothe100dayproject #dothe10
“One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we’ll need a new definition.”- Alvin Toffler. Day 65/100. This photo of my dad defined the term ‘piggyback’ for me. No Photoshop, no questi
“Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.”- Abraham Lincoln. Day 64/100. #oldfamilyphotos #redti #redfish #abrahamlincoln #the100dayproject #dothe100dayproject #dothe100dayproject2025 #collage #6x6
“Everybody knows how fallible memory can sometimes be. You remember certain fragments precisely, but as soon as you try to join the fragments together, for a story, there is a certain - not falsification, but a shifting.”- Günter Gra
“Nourish beginnings, let us nourish beginnings. Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest. The blessing is in the seed.”- Muriel Rukeyser. Day 62/100: The Honeymoon, 1951. #myparents #longmarriages #honeymoon #colla
“The leader of the band is tired and his eyes are growing old But his blood runs through my instrument and his song is in my soul “- Dan Fogelberg. Day 61/100: Leader of the Band. #danfogelberg #collage #fatherandson #brushstrokes #the1
“A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn’t play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly.”- Pablo Neruda. Day 60/100: my dad, with perhaps his first set of wheels, next to a
“You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.”- Swami Vivekananda. Day 59/100. This is the same man whose image I used on Days 43 and 47. I just assum
 
 

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