Monday Monday

A L O H A!

Here is a Hawaiian Sky Just for YOU

click on photos for ahhhh-gasm

"You ask me why I dwell in the green mountain;

I smile and make no reply for my heart is free of care.

As the peach-blossom flows down stream

and is gone into the unknown,

I have a world apart that is not among men."

Li Bai

"You find a flower half-buried in leaves,

And in your eye its very fate resides.

Loving beauty, you caress the bloom;

Soon enough, you'll sweep petals from the floor.
Terrible to love the lovely so,

To count your own years, to say "I'm old,"

To see a flower half-buried in leaves

And come face to face with what you are."
Han Shan

Translated by Peter Stambler

"No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl.

All little girls should be told they are pretty, even if they aren't."
Marilyn Monroe

“A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us.

To live is to be slowly born.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery



“The difference between what the most and the least learned people know

is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.”
Albert Einstein

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Today, I am at the medical center having a colonoscopy.

This post is like those slides the TV stations used to show:

Please Forgive The Inconvenience.

Until our normal programming is continued.

Blogging is not about gem-like posts

so perfect and boring,

it is about being real.

Can't get real-er than a colonoscopy!

Your well-wishes are understood

but no less appreciated,

and no less desired.

Yes, you may leave smirky, jokey comments

at my expense.

I'll be too busy stuffing my face when I read them

to care!

So enjoy the day,

and especially the fact that it is not YOUR

colonoscopy!

Glad to be of service!

A L O H A HA HA HA!

Cloudia :-0