Friday, January 2, 2009

Hope Duels Fear


"A new dawn" by Ted Trimmer

click on photos to enlarge!




"New Year's Day is every man's birthday."


- Charles Lamb


"Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true."


-Alfred, Lord Tennyson





"I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the year's."


- Henry Moore


Top of Waikiki: cool restaurant!

"I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me." - Anaïs Nin
Here in Hawaii we watch the New Year march across the Earth from Kiribati, and on through: Oceania, Australasia, Asia, Europe, the U.S. Atlantic Seaboard, Chicago, Denver, Seattle, and finally - it's our turn! As a new year begins, it is natural to look back and also ahead. At this unprecedented moment in history, fear & hope are duelling in hearts all over the world as never before. New ways of thinking about our lives are emerging from our common longings. "Truly appreciate what you've got," is one of these emerging new "Memes." "Humankind does not live by bread alone," is an older version of that same thought. When we really "get" how little it takes to be deeply content - actually HAPPY - then our freedom begins! One last quote that I believe hints at the way:
" Broaden your mind enough and you necessarily come to mysteries that are so much bigger than everyday concerns that to encounter them is to experience awe, to experience the sacred." - Tenzin W. Rinpoche
A L O H A! Cloudia

15 comments:

David Cranmer said...

Wonderful quotes and I wish you great success for the new year!

Akelamalu said...

Love the quotes Cloudia.

All the best for the New Year m'dear. x

magiceye said...

well said and quoted!

hope your dreams are realised in 2009!

Anonymous said...

Top of Waikiki Restaurant? I blogged about it. Great food and ambiance, but it is very dimly lit, making it hard to read the menu.

Google the menu before you go so you'll know what to order.

★ Crazy Drile™ said...

aLOHA!
Thank you for visit Compass of the North...and welcome anytime!

Im glad that you wasenjoyingmy web and music!!

All the best!
Cu soon

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Crazy Drile

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Barrie said...

Happy New Year, Cloudia! I especially like the quote about the day's resolutions. :)

claude said...

The first photo is very beautiful and the quotes very nice.

Reader Wil said...

Cloudia! This is a truly great post! I didn't know that there was a New Year March across the world. That's a great idea!
I wish you a peaceful, happy and healthy New Year.

Dave King said...

"New Year's Day is every man's birthday." I like that. Didn't know it before. Another good post.

Feisty Crone said...

I love Henry Moore's quote, making daily resolutions can help us narrow focus-like making each day a great one!

Cloudia said...

David- Great to see you! thanks; I wish you the same!

Ake- Mahalo! You too, Dear.

MagicEye- Thanks; and I wish the same for you!

GiGi- Thanks for da tip, love!

Crazy D- Aloha & Salam to you!

Barrie- Happy new Year to YOU!

Claude- Mahalo, Cheri!

Reader Wil- Glad you lke the idea; thanks!

Dave King- Quite a cool idea, i agree. aloha, sir!

Gran- YES! Let's make it count ;->
Thankyou ALL!!

Charles Gramlich said...

Thinking in terms of a "day's resolutions." Now that's an idea I wish I'd thought of before.

Cloudia said...

Charles- Happy New Year!!

Barbara Martin said...

Love these quotes, Cloudia. All the best in the New Year.