"Rest in love and peace my best friend..." 'James "Kimo" Rosen' (Kimo's world #349)

James "Kimo" Rosen is a retired professional photographer  

and amongst things is a satirist.

Rosen currently resides on the tropical island of Kaua'i.

                                                                                

                          

                                       Sunrise/Weather Photos, May- 2023

                                            These photos appeared on Hawaii News Now

   Blog #2103~Kimo's world #349                                         

Rest in love and peace my best friend

I had 15 wonderful years with my service dog by my side. We went everywhere together and never missed a sunrise.

We went on the bus, some of her favorite places were Costco, Panda Express, and Micky D's. I think maybe because she learned that from me.

I am blessed to have had such a loyal and loving friend. I still go on our daily walks without her just to keep a routine. It feels naked on my walks without the leash dangling off my left

wrist and bending to pick up her business in the special designer plastic bags.

I miss sharing meals with her, I miss her checking on me when I take too long in the restroom. I miss her riding in the basket on my bike and co-piloting.

I bought a roasted chicken

the other night for $5.00 Fridays at Safeway, one of her favorites and it just didn't taste so great without her.

When we first encountered each other at the  Kauai Humane Society fifteen years ago, I took the basket off my bike

and brought it into the different puppy cages to see if any dog would walk into the basket and stay. She was the only one that climbed into the basket and stayed, and as often happens this puppy adopted me.

I had her to many

veterinarians the last month hoping for a different diagnosis, however, her kidneys and liver had both failed and with many tumors and a chronic disease it was time.

The hardest thing I ever did.  I needed to go to the Humane Society even though I was working with three other caring vets, only because

the Humane Society was where she adopted me and I rescued her. They call it the Humane Society for a reason they really treated us special, very humanely. Plus it was full circle...

It was the vet's last day,

she invited us to a private appointment, consoled me as a psychiatrist would, and reassured me I was doing the right thing. 

Just seconds before my sweet dog was euthanized I gave her chocolate-covered Kirkland almonds. Dogs love chocolate but can be deadly. 

... And then the stress and pain disappeared from her face, she looked at peace.

Always in my heart. I miss her so... I love you Ivanka. "Boms" Obama

Rest in Love and peace. 

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A shortened version of this appeared in the 05-03-23 edition of the Honolulu Star-Advertiser. They were kind enough to send me a link to the letter since like many newspapers these days they have a paywall. This is the 150-word version of the original 388-word blog...

https://www.staradvertiser.com/2023/05/03/editorial/letters/letter-beloved-companion-dog-of-15-years-remembered/?HSA=e21d0828da15c794d54bfd0410720ce88905d8d5

And on Saturday 05-06-23 this blog appeared

 in full as a Letter to the editor in the Garden Island News!

https://www.thegardenisland.com/2023/05/06/opinion/letter-for-saturday-may-6-2023/

Ivanka "Boms" Obama
December 25, 2008- April 26, 2023
Rest in Peace and Love

The Garden Island News published and memorialized a  photo
 of my best friend in the Friday, May 19th, 2023 edition! 

I had tears in my eyes when I read my mail on Sunday-May 14, 2023! 
 The Kauai Humane Society send me this note card below! 😎❤️🙏

Looked what my friend Carrie had made for me!

Hana Hou!(Encore)

"Drinking out of the garden hose and filling job vacancies..." 'James "Kimo" Rosen" (Kimo's world #348)

 

James "Kimo" Rosen is a retired professional photographer  

and amongst things is a satirist.

Rosen currently resides on the tropical island of Kaua'i

                                                 with his best friend and spiritual adviser,                                  

                                             Ivanka "Costco" Obama, The bipartisan Dog.

                                       Sunrise/Weather Photos, April- 2023

                                            These photos appeared on Hawaii News Now

   Blog #2102~Kimo's world #348                                         

Drinking out of the garden hose and filling job vacancies

Restaurants, doctors'

offices, grocery stores, and nearly every business you can think of are still short-staffed even though for the most part the pandemic is behind us. 

People not only got used to government assistance but got used to the freedom of working at home.  Saving time on commutes and hanging out at the computer in undergarments ain’t so bad!

The question remains why should a maid, waitress, busboy, or any employee go back

to work when the government pays them more to stay at home and in many instances even gives rent assistance and added EBT/food stamps? Many of these programs are ongoing and still happening until their alleged official cutoff date of MAY 11, 2023 which is also the official end of COVID-19 according to the Whitehouse.

Millions of illegal immigrants are making their way into America, instead of giving them

welfare and government assistance that many of our own citizens aren't even eligible for, why not let them fill the void of all the short-staffed businesses? Biden could make this his legacy?

Just as a ship is safe in harbor, that’s not what it was built for.  A ship must sail the open seas just as humans must get out and prosper. 

 Cooties or should I say COVID have left us! That's right Cooties. I often thought to myself how COVID was like Cooties but never expressed this publicly

until now because of the crazy cancel culture we live in. Just as little boys were afraid to touch little girls because of the invisible Cooties, that's how the world scrutinized people with COVID. I know many people who were never vaccinated and never got the virus and many people who got all the shots and all the boosters and still got sick as hell.

When my generation

was young there was no such thing as bottled water, we all drank out of the garden hose. That was our COVID and Flu shot back then. That's one of the many ways we built up immunities naturally. 

 It's time to start drinking out of the garden hose once again and filling job vacancies with illegal immigrants hoping to one day fulfill their dream of becoming U.S. citizens.

Hana Hou!(Encore)

"Imagine if fans acted like NFL players..." 'James "Kimo" Rosen' (Kimo's word #347)

James "Kimo" Rosen is a retired professional photographer  

and amongst things is a satirist.

Rosen currently resides on the tropical island of Kaua'i

                                                 with his best friend and spiritual adviser,                                  

                                             Ivanka "Costco" Obama, The bipartisan Dog.

                                       Sunrise/Weather Photos, March- 2023

                                            These photos appeared on Hawaii News Now

   Blog #2101~Kimo's world #347                                         

Imagine if fans acted like NFL players

The NFL though

at times has its rough edges, however, football is my favorite sport to watch.  I have been a loyal Buffalo Bills supporter for over 60 years, also known as Bill’s Mafia.

My team has never won a Super Bowl, but we have come close many times.

We lost four in a row back in the 1990s, what are the odds of that?  For the last couple of years, the zebras (referees) and Patrick Mahomes have kept us out. It seems like a never-ending battle. 

The players these days follow the money and unlike the fans seem to have no team loyalty. 

Why then should fans remain loyal during losing seasons?  Why shouldn’t we all jump ship to a winning team and feel good come Monday morning or any day after a game? 

When rookie contracts are up and if they’re any good they will demand

big money from the team that drafted, gambled, and worked hard on them to become great. If that team does not come through with big bucks they can enter into free agency and go to the highest bidder or a team they believe is a contender for the Big Dance, the Super Bowl. 

There is no loyalty between players and coaches.  They move around like gypsies

on psychedelics for the biggest paycheck.

Next time my team has a losing season, I’m thinking of changing sides to a winning team so I can feel good for once about a team.  

What the heck with being loyal to a jinxed or losing team?  If the players and coaches aren’t devoted why should we? 

Players say, "it's a business,"

so for me it's entertainment and I want to go to the best movie! I want to have my team win the Super Bowl before I croak, and for now, this may be the only way.

 Nonetheless, I remain a devoted loyal idiot. Go Bills! 

This is a real Vietnamese
Restaurant in Miami! ;-) 

Hana Hou!(Encore)

'Here's to nothing, Hasta la vista baby..."'James Kimo" Rosen'(Kimo's world #346)

James "Kimo" Rosen is a retired professional photographer  

and amongst things is a satirist.

Rosen currently resides on the tropical island of Kaua'i

                                                 with his best friend and spiritual adviser,                                  

                                             Ivanka "Costco" Obama, The bipartisan Dog.

                         Sunrise/Weather Photos, February- 2023

                       These photos appeared on Hawaii News Now

   Blog #2100~Kimo's world #346                                         

Here's to nothing, Hasta la vista baby

  It's hard to find a subject matter to write about

It is hard to write these days and try to find a subject to write about in that society won't

cancel you or editors will publish. Society is holding editors and publishers responsible for the once-free thinkers that graced editorial pages around our great nation.

Many professional comedians

that once considered the American college campus the epitome of free speech and the places they most longed to perform now are frightened by that same venue. Colleges and young people are now the first to want to say my way or the highway and ruin careers and cancel the once free thinkers.

Try having a political view

that's in contrast to the masses. I did. I have had many friends unfriend me on social media and even relatives believe I need an intervention and group therapy. 

I used to really enjoy writing about politics until the comments exploded on my blog, many times in anti-semitic rages

because of my religion, although the blog had nothing to do with religion. The nice thing about the blog is I'm the editor and I can choose to edit and delete those comments, which I always did.  Comment boards on public forums were another story.

The internet warriors comment with anonymous monikers by making comments to you online

that they would never make to our faces, similar to monkeys throwing feces at each other. Writing was once a fun hobby and enjoyable. This is why I need something different to write about besides politics.

I have decided one last thing to write about, no politics, no religion, so what is it?

Nothing!   Similar to the Seinfeld

TV show that was about nothing, this is what my future writing will be about, nothing! Can I get into trouble writing about nothing, probably not. But not near as much trouble as writing about  Donald Trump, Joe Biden, or Kamala.

Here's to nothing! Hasta la vista baby.

Throwback from 2009
Ivanka Obama and James "Kimo" Rosen 45 lbs heavier

Hana Hou!(Encore)