Sunday Muse

Aloha & Welcome to another Waikiki Sunday!

click on photos to enlarge"The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek."
Robert Louis Stevenson

"Troubles are often the tools God fashions us for better things."
Henry Ward Beecher

Riddle of the Sphynx

"What walks on four legs at dawn, two legs at noon, and three legs at night?"

I am just like you.

Awakening at 3 a.m. for that dread life-review.

How amazing it's all been (so far!)

yet how different and puny are my accomplishments

viewed side-by-side with youthful dreams and expectations.

And this is where the whispering wise one within

draws back the curtain,

the thinning curtain of our illusions,

and smiling shows

immediate evident abundance of blessings:

technicolor skies, and the real-er

unseen coin of affection.

My child's dreams were just that,

provisional aspirations

that pale in the light

of this vivid and only moment.

So this, at last, is true:

I've lived amidst great beauty

and struggle

coming to focus more

on the former,

a farmer of verities

from the stony

depleted

soil of our late day.

In returning and rest

I have found a lovely song

to sing, surpassing

the obituary

I might have built.

A L O H A Cloudia