ON THE MAINLAND, CHICAGO NO KA OI
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- Family on the Fourth
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Chicago, July 13–What happens when you are having so much fun going to outdoor concerts, celebrating the Fourth of July and strolling about town. If you are a blogger you take hundreds of photos but don.t take the time to doing anything with them. SCROLL TO BOTTOM FOR BEST PHOTOS
Friends have asked for some photos. So to satisfy everyone, including followers, we depart from the usual entries to offer these.
The blogger is still basking in the honor of being named as a finalist for the best independent journalists in the State of Hawaii in 2015.
The blogger has had a life that is bookends. First a journalist, 40 years a pr guy, the last nine as a journalism again, columnist and author. I am getting more and more into the journalism thing, which I should have been all along.
Check out tomorrow when I post my coverage of a protest. As usual in Chicago, everyone act first class; protestors and the police who handled it just right.
Enjoy the photos while we go off to the new river walk for a drink while we watch the tourists boas and speedboats move down the Chicago River to Lake Michigan.
And we have a Tiki Bar too, just blocks from where we are staying. MAUI NO KA OI (the best in Hawaii, CHICAGO NOK KAI OI ON THE CONTINENT (Sometimes knon
THE BRITISH ARE COMING..one of four Fourth of July posts
Chicago–How ironic. For 57 years, the Chicago History museum has invited our opponents in the War of Independence to our country’s birthday party at its Old fashioned fourth. The blogger returns after a 14 year absence to this annual event. WATCH FOR THREE MORE AMAZING POSTS. Voices of Maui Talk Story, Llc photo from bloggers visit to Magnificent Chicago.
Which is America’s greatest city?
Ka’anapali–Four days we were here. On Fourth of July Eve we are in the world’s greatest city–greatest because unlike New York it is clean and beautiful everywhere, great because of its glitz, modernity, ambiance, flower lined avenues, Millennium Park, Frank Gehry outdoor concert venue, rich architecture, spectacular events, fine art museum, great symphony, beautiful lakefront not maligned by piers or ugly structures, 21 miles of bike path on a lakefront that was preserved by the great Daniel Burnham, and more. Here is what it looked like in just a few places on Fourth of July eve.
Just a minor sampling. VOICES OF MAUI TALK STORY, LLC PHOTOS
You will never guess who these beautiful, brainy women are and why they are wearing leis
Lahaina–June 28–Today’s challenge. Simply say what these people did to deserve leis and win a free book shipped to you. If you live on the Continent and you can guess you win two books. If you are local, just one since you should be able to figure this out. If you belong to this international organization, you are not eligible to win unless the author through the kindness of his heart lets you. Email your answers to norm.mauiauthor@gmail.com First to answer the question correctly gets the 144 page book, Voices of Aloha. Best of luck, and aloha. Of course, if there would be a pic, this would help. VOICES OF MAUI TALK STORY, LLC.
WATCH FOR UPCOMING CHANGES ON THIS SITE. 
HOW WE CELEBRATE FATHERS DAY MAUI STYLE
Ka’anapali Beach–Some of us walk a tightrope. Many of us–hundreds of us go to brunch at the Most Hawaiian Hotel. Mothers Day attracts a thousand brunchers, far surpassing Father/s Day
Here the blogger departs from policy by showing food, relevent though because this is what this father consumed and the people who made me a Dad.
FLOWERS OF ALOHA FOR CHARLESTON VICTIMS
For the victims of gun violence in South Carolina, their loved ones and the nation. Pray for them yes, as many have said.
But pray for courage of our Congress to have the buts to enact meaningful gun control. The NRA may try to defeat you. But 300 million Americans will support you. Not this be another episode where we stay this has to sop and then do nothing. And then forget. Hawaii mourns for the victims
FINE WINE, FINE WOMEN
NAPILI, MAUI, JUNE 5–Fine wine glasses at Napili Kae Resort provide a frame foe two beautiful women at sunset when the Mainland was bathed in darkness. Lucky to live on Maui. Saturday on your blogz; a parade and festival. Voices of Maui Talk Story, LLc photo
BLOGGERS NEW BOOK TO DEBUT
KAANAPALI, JUNE 5–Lahaina News Columnist and your blogger Norm Bezane will be debuting the new book “VOICES OF ALOHA BEYOND THE BEACH this month. This site is undergoing a re-design and its look may change day-to-day to provide the best viewing experience. MUCH MORE TO COME. LINKS TO BOOKSTORE NOT YET OPERABLE.
JOYS of KAANAPALI 
