Bill of Rights Day 349 of 2007 16 days left in this year

HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “A standing together in twos.”

Today thru December 30th
Maui Film Festival’s First Light Screenings

December 15th, 1924
Traffic on Oahu and Maui, the two most populous islands, officially gets out of hand. There are no traffic signals, so officials create a new way to control vehicles — whistles. Pedestrian crosswalks are painted on the streets along with white lines where vehicles were supposed to stop.

Traffic police with semaphores then tooted their whistles, one blast of the whistle meant traffic could move from north and south, two blasts allowed traffic to move east and west. On Oahu, left turns were banned Downtown. In Kahului, chaos ensues, and it is quickly decided that such a practice is not warranted on Maui, and it is abandoned.

The world’s first traffic light, by the way, was in London, in 1868, a revolving gas lantern with red and green glass.

Most people have told themselves five lies before breakfast. Dreams themselves are lies. But they are significant because of the self-light.

Have you ever wondered where the light comes from when you are sleeping, but seeing dream images? You are the source of that light, as well as the source of most of the images. The big lie of a dream is that one presents the image as out there, when it is really all in here.

One is himself the projector and bulb and every image. One plays every part, portrays every action and directs all events. For the most part. There are dream images which come from elsewhere, but they are easily identified, because of their symbology and profoundness.
Every night, when we turn off the electric lights and the light of waking consciousness, another dimmer light–a kind of pilot light–goes on. But this light is more than a stationary light, it is a detachable light, which may be brought to bear wherever we want.

It is our misfortune that we do with this light, what we do with the light of the soul: that is, we scatter it with false projections. But it is most unfortunate that most of us are virtually asleep and dreaming–telling ourselves untruths–all day long.
                                                                                  
– Raphael O’Suna, Haiku