The 15 Craigside Photo Club meets the first Sunday of the month.  The originators are Irene, who lives on my floor in this seniors community, and Scott Kubo from the Honolulu Museum of Art, our mentor.  Here is a photo of the two.  We are asked by Scott to submit a few photos on a theme he selects for show and tell at our gathering.  This month it had something to do with being thankful.  Of course, family, friends and health are at the top of the list.  At least, Google AI indicated that to me, and I agree.  Most members here will no doubt submit these kinds of photos.  Or something to do with religion. However, when I thought about this earlier in the month, I couldn't come up with interesting enough photos to take or from my photo file.  So I picked rainbows and sunsets, because those photos had a lot of color.  I then narrowed my choice down to only sunsets. Thus, when I sat at the computer this morning, I had further thoughts about ...

I earlier mentioned that my very first airplane flight was when I was around 10-years old from Honolulu to Maui.  I was born at Queen's Hospital in Honolulu in 1940.  Grew up in Kakaako and when I was in high school, took a trip to Hilo.  The first 18 years of my life was otherwise spent on Oahu.  I left in 1962 for Los Angeles to spend the summer living with my older brother, who got me a summer job at the Naval Civil Engineering Center, Port Hueneme, California.  Then spent 3.7 years at Stanford University. During our junior year, most of my friends decided  to join the first full year of John Kennedy's just announced Peace Corps when they graduated.  So I had to do something similarly sacrificial.  To explore my possible future, I found a summer job with C. Brewer in Hilo.  Lived in the Boys Club, and adjacent was the little league field of a team I watched.  They went all the way to Williamsport for the Little League World Series in ...