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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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LifestyleBarbara UechiFebruary 16, 2024Memories, People, WritingComment
 

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“It ain’t what they call you, it’s what you answer to.”- W. C. Fields. Day 96/100. #collage #middleoftheroad #fish #wcfields #the100dayproject #dothe100dayproject #dothe100dayproject2025 #6x6 #oldfamilyphotos
“You’re only as young as the last time you changed your mind.”- Timothy Leary. Day 95/100: random boy at the Honolulu Stadium in the early 1950s. I hope he’s still having fun. #collage #oldfamilyphotos #boyhood #wallsnotebo
“The image is one thing and the human being is another. It very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.”- Elvis Presley. I have an old group photo taken with Elvis when I was in elementary school. I enlarged the photo and cut out th
“Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.”- Nathaniel Hawthorne. (1) My mom, at my Uncle Carl’s gravesite at Punchbowl Cemetery. This was taken a few years before the crosses were replaced by flat granite markers in 1951. (
“The purpose of life is a life of purpose.”- John Robert Byrne. Day 92/100: Carl Matsuda, from a photo taken before he left for Italy, where he was killed in action in 1944. The photo of Rev. Hunt that I used yesterday, was taken at Punch
“Every exit is an entry somewhere else.”- Tom Stoppard. Day 91/100: Rev. Ernest Hunt. Memorial Day, 1 of 3 posts. #oldfamilyphotos #ceremony #collage #punchbowl #the100dayproject #dothe100dayproject2025 #dothe100dayproject
“Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.”- Leo Buscaglia. Day 90/100: My Uncle Paul. Photo of crates by @adigold1 via @unsplash #iykyk #oldfamilyphotos #collage #wallsnotebook #the100dayproject #dothe10
“In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it.”- Susan Sontag. Day89/100. #collage #shadows #photographer #susansontag #posing #the100dayproject #dothe100dayproject #dothe100day
“Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.”- Jean Rhys. Day 88/100. My friend Bette, the year we first met. She came from Minnesota and lived next door to us whil
“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.”- R. Buckminster Fuller. Day 87/100: Getting There. I’m not sure at what point in the reconstruction, or their relationship, Fred took Clara for a
“Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.”- Marcus Aurelius. Day 86/100: My maternal grandmother, before she crossed the ocean. I wonder i
“In love there are no vacations. No such thing. Love has to be lived fully with its boredom and all that.”- Marguerite Duras. Day 85/100: The Honeymoon. My dad’s holding the camera that I once found in my parents’ closet. It w
“The nice thing about quotes is that they give us a nodding acquaintance with the originator which is often socially impressive.”- Kenneth Williams. My mother kept several notebooks of positive and inspirational quotes but she almost ne
“Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.”- Susan Sontag. It suddenly occurred to me that my dad was responsible for the handful of these 2 1/2” square photos. He captioned a few i
“Humans think in stories, and we try to make sense of the world by telling stories.”- Yuval Noah Harari. Once upon a time, she read me fairy tales, changing her voice for the good and evil characters. I may not have believed all that happ
“Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.”- Dorothea Lange. Day 81/100: The Memory Maker. This is my mother’s oldest brother, my Uncle Ray, the family photographer. Thanks to him and his ever pres
“The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.”- Alvin Toffler. Day 80/100. #oldfamilyphotos #uncles #oldyellowhouse #collage #learning #the100dayproject #dothe1
“A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.”- Elbert Hubbard. Day 79/100: Fred’s Friend. The original photo of this man and his car is at most, a two inch square. He’s my dad’s friend, taken when they wer
 
 

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