Monday, December 15, 2008

Blog is a Kite

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"You don't need to outdo the competition. It's expensive and defensive. Underdo your competition. We need more simplicity and clarity."
- Jason Fried



Ted Trimmer Photo: Magic Island (Top)


"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
- Albert Einstein

"If you can't convince them, confuse them."
- Harry Truman




My blog is a kite
I send up every day.
Your daily dose of Hawaii
Through my eyes.

Some blogs are fighting kites
Cutting the strings
Of their opponents'
Arguments.

But Comfort Spiral
is a message in a bottle:
"Like minded people
Come out and play."

And like miracles
Or migrating butterflies
You come to display your colours.

The Sky is full of kites
Each one is different
Yes,
Another wonderous day . . . A L O H A! Cloudia

26 comments:

The Grandpa said...

And such a wonderful kite it is. I never want to come down from soaring above the islands, or stop walking through the streets. Mahalo, Cloudia.

Cloudia said...

Aloha, Grandpa!
S.O.A.R. with me (Share Our Abundant Rainbows)!

Anonymous said...

neon! who is the beauty?

Feisty Crone said...

How peaceful Cloudia.

NAVAL LANGA said...

I have come here from Mr. Travis Ervin's blog. I have read some of your posts. I would revisit for reading more literature from you.

If you like short stories and paintings, then a short visit to my blogs wold be an entertaining one.

Naval Langa

roentare said...

This one is simply stunning! The colour is soooooo beautiful

Maria Verivaki said...

lovely colours in your shots today!

claude said...

The first sky is magnificient !

Kay said...

Love your photos, Cloudia. I'm enjoying seeing the islands from your perspective. It's so different and even more exciting and colorful than mine.

advertisno said...

Aloha

This is great pictures and I really words who is true "We need more simplicity and clarity

Do you want to be one of the contributors in our group blog? Let me know and I send you an invitation ;)

Yeti said...

Very well said!! Hello friend! :>)

Rastaman said...

Aloha island sister. Now Ima fine with go fly a kite, Rasta!

Brother Tobias said...

They may be kites, but you let go of the strings and they fly across oceans and continents.

(Your saloon looks cosy. I imagine you are seranaded by the slap of water and the tap-tapping of halliards on masts).

Bubblewench said...

Great kite poem.. I do love it here!

Dave King said...

As always a fascinating image and a bit of fun! Great!

Charles Gramlich said...

I always loved flying kites.

Barbara Martin said...

Your kite is soaring across the distance spreading your wonderful words and thoughts.

Akelamalu said...

Beautiful. I just love those shots!

Yolanda said...

You know I love these quotes. Thanks so much for stopping by.

Glennis said...

So pretty, such wonderful kites! We are lucky you send them up for us to dream about.

Cloudia said...

Gran,
Naval,
Roentarre,
M. Kiwi,
Claude,
Kay,
Advertisno,
Yeti,
Rastaman, Ya Mon!
Brother Tobias,
Bubblewench,
Dave King,
Charles G,
Barbara M,
Akelamalu,
Yolanda,
Glennis,

Aloha and thank you ALL for your visits and comments. YOU are most welcome and appreciated here in the comfort Spiral!

NAVAL LANGA said...

To Ms. Cloudia

You are heartily welcome to my blogspace.

I would like to read your prose, as it sounds like poetry.

Naval Langa
http://mughalminiatures.blogspot.com/

Sepiru Chris said...

Hello Cloudia,

What a poetic posting...

Give my best regards to Ted Trimmer, who I suspect is a vegetarian, because he certainly provides a little something for every pilgrimage made by a visitor to your site.

And huge thank you to you.

I must admit that I have always thought of you as being more in line with the Aerostat Réveillon, the first manned (well, animalled) balloon sent aloft by les fréres Montgolfier, then with a kite.

Why?

Well, balloons seem gracious, as your text and voice are.

Also, while kites are frequently brilliantly coloured, the Aerostat Réveillon was constructed out of wallpaper daubed in an alum paste for fire-resistance. That balloon was colourful and reflective of its world. It dominated the sky, and the imagination of its times.

I think your posts are colourful, reflective of your world, and quietly, graciously, dominant too.

But I concede the lively vitality of kites to you, of course.

Lovely work, Cloudia, however it is characterized.

All the best,
Chris

Travis Erwin said...

Great sentiments in this post.

Cloudia said...

Travis: Much like many of YOURS! Mahalo-

Cloudia said...

Sepiru Chris: I love how YOU write!
Thanks for glorying with me in the wonder of words, facts, and wishes. . . . I like your "argument" but am actually very partial to Santos-Dumont who flew his diminutive blimp around Paris as a private vehicle. He was the toast of the town! I need some lawn chairs and helium cannisters and some balloons!!