TSA
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TSA
Aloha Tiki Tribe!
So, there we are: We're having a great time in Washington D.C. Representing the Big Island….
meeting up with folks in delegations from each of the other Hawaiian Islands
This is the actual plaster cast of the Figure of "Liberty" which stands atop the Capital Dome!
She stands and looks across the room at King Kamehameha!
Inside the Dome looks like dis'.
Laters, we broke up into a smaller group of die-hard history buffs and we made the tour guide take us
to the only Other famous "Hawaiian-based" statue in the Capital - a statue of Father Damian! Yep - Father Damien aka Saint Damien of Molokai !
It's a cool Bronze stylized pop modern statue. It's block-like style, mislead people to think that Father Damien
wore some weird cage to prevent the lepers he ministered to from touching him! (Not True)
His tale is just one more amazing story of Hawaii…if you don't know about him, please, read up on this incredible man:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father_Damien
At the swanky party at Google HQ we were treated to live Hawaiian music.
Like... the amazing young ukulele phenom Aidan James!
Rawk-On Aidan - U should meet my friends "The Crazed Mugs!" - I feel another CD cover-painting coming on!
Senator Mazie Hirono, and her husband Leighton Kim O Shima, kept the event Up-Beat and full of ALOHA!
I think I kinda' lost my fedora hat and my innocence at the Hawaiian Caucus Party at Google HQ.
-( boy, I gotta tell ya', I kinda' got a personal weakness for Awesome, Brilliant, Curvaceous, Inebriated, Funny, Women from Maui! ) ~
OH-KEE….Lots of stuff! So much I can't even remember it all….
Some How, I found time 'Tween Events to work in my Sketch Book… (like Kenny told me - on 2015 Tiki-Products we're doing hand in hand with K.C. Hawaii -
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