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Lessons in Balance
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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“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
“Isn’t life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?”- Andy Warhol. Day 58/100: Women in White Dresses sit in the front row of my childhood memories. They were usually older Hawaiian women, standing on the side of
“If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.”- Tom Stoppard. Day 57/100: Happy Easter!🐇 #tallguy in #kindergarten #easter #collage #6x6 #the100dayproject #dothe100dayproject #dothe100dayproject2025 #rabbitears #oldfam
“Memory… is the diary that we all carry about with us.”- Oscar Wilde. Day56/100. #the100dayproject #dothe100dayproject #dothe100dayproject2025 #oscarwilde #collage #6x6 #sketchbookpieces
“Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!”- Dr. Seuss. Day 55/100. #harumatsuda #hats #drseuss #collage #6x6 #the100dayproject #dothe100dayproject #dothe100dayproject2025 #
“I think childhood is to everyone a lost world.”- Dennis Potter. Day 54/100. All I remember are my scraped up knees, irritated by the long dress (muumuu). No one said, “say cheese!” #cousins #oldfamilyphotos #girls #collage #
“Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.”- Lao Tzu. Day 53/100. #tallguy #surfing #collage #6x6 #the100dayproject #dothe100dayproject #dothe100dayproject2025
“The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.”- Joseph Campbell. Day 52/100. My maternal grandfather (left) and my son, riding in the rain. Keep saying YES! #collage #oldfamilyphotos #the10
He deals the cards to find the answer The sacred geometry of chance The hidden law of probable outcome The numbers lead a dance- Sting, “Shape Of My Heart”. Day 51/100. I’m always intrigued by frozen conversations. These ladies s
“If you don’t k know where you are going, any road will get you there.”- Lewis Carroll. Day 50/100: Blue, the hen I feed. #collage #6x6 #sketchbookpages #hen #chicken #the100dayproject #dothe100dayproject #dothe100dayproject2025 #
 
 

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