Childhood Cleanup

Welcome Friend!

it's

Aloha Tuesday

in

W A I K I K I

click on photos for all the usual reasons

Marsha Marsha MARSHA!

Yep, that's cultural icon Maureen McCormick of TV's Brady Bunch.

You can listen to the theme song here.

Warning: It will probably stick in

your head ALL day.

"Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them."

Albert Einstein

"I'd feared surrender would sand me down to nothing.

Now I've started to believe it can bloom me more solidly into myself."

Mary Karr

"The chill of suspicion and incomprehension came between me and humankind when I was sixteen. . . it wasn't possible to live among other people if all of a sudden they could attack one another with such ferocity.""

Romano Bilenchi

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"If we learn to open our hearts, anyone,

including the people who drive us crazy,

can be our teacher."

Pema Chodron

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Young children are sponges

they thrive

or fail

on the input, especially the

emotional stimulus,

from their parents.

In my case

there was an over abundance of stimulation

from which I learned

to filter

and to cushion myself

in order to survive

the big waves

of emotion.

Now I realize

that this has always made me

defensively critical

of new things

and people.

I need to absorb the New

in digestible bites,

or bytes.

It's sad to think

of all the opportunities

that I have "defended" myself against.

But I'm learning to trust myself

and to open up to

Possibilities.

The holidays are the time

when we reflect on where we've been

and often reconnect

with the people who've loved

and failed us

the most.

My Holiday Wish for you:

Trust the adult that you have become.

Don't rise to the usual bait.

You deserve to enjoy your holidays,

and to forgive.

Epecially

yourself.

ALOHA & THANK YOU!! cloudia