FRAGMENTO

Images and Words: Copyright: John Michael Shklov. Kapaa, 2007

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Copyright: John Michael Shklov. Kapaa, 2005

The Final Lesson

The Final Lesson
She was the last student in class, that day, the last day of my 18 year string of years teaching photography and art classes at Island Community College. When she bent over to pick up her belongings, I noticed her not unattractive figure. Mary Smith was the usual type of older student, [...]

We are all Raptors

Images and Words: Copyright: John Michael Shklov. Kapaa, 2007

A FLIMSY TOWER OF NUMBERS

A FLIMSY TOWER OF NUMBERS

Toshi had a regular route around the Honolulu campus. My office at the East West Center Communications Institute was at his mid morning point, one of half a dozen or so his stops around the University. He usually perched on the soft leather chair at my office, waiting, the stop [...]

Work Shall Make You Free

Work Shall Make You Free
a story and a picture by John Shklov
Lisa Unter was a Jewish survivor of Auschwitz death camp. Wizened, hunched, arthritic and at the very end of her long life she settled on Kauai.

When I first met her she was 80 something. [...]

SOVEREIGNTY

 
SOVEREIGNTY
She was a big girl. Sunny Keawe was built like a Polynesian goddess. A Hawaiian Queen Latifah, being part Samoan and part Hawaiian and raised in Waianae out in the country on a high protein diet, on canoe practice and hula.

Her curves were large and generous no less woman-like for their size and [...]

It was a perfect day in Hawaii /w illustration

 
It was a perfect day in Hawaii.
It was a perfect day in Hawaii. The sun was bright and the electric blue sky was clear. Sparkling highlights from the waves off Diamond Head bounced in the distance. From my vantage point high over Honolulu on the [...]

All structures are just temporary

Images and Words: Copyright: John Michael Shklov. Kapaa, 2007