Nothing is Easy

A L O H A

Today's song

 was my "theme-song" for so long.

NOTHING is easy.

Micronesian Ladies Wait for the Bus.

Scooter girl takes this shot.

She her reflection?

"The detached observer's view

 is one window on the world."

Kenneth L. Pike 

"Character is what you are in the dark."

-Dwight L. Moody

Riding Along With Dad

"He opened the jar of pickles when no one else could.

 He was the only one in the house who wasn't afraid to into the basement by himself.

 He cut himself shaving, but no one kissed it or got excited about it.

 It was understood when it rained, he got the car and brought it around to the door. 

When anyone was sick, he went out to get the prescription filled. He took lots of pictures ...

 but he was never in them."

-- Erma Bombeck 

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Hannukah

is a holiday of LIGHT

like Diwali.

Tonight is the second night.

The war was over:

the Earthly Power

had won.

Yet

a dark lamp

remained in the

defiled

temple.

Rebels lit that lamp,

the light that should never

go out.

And though it

"shouldn't have"

it shined

eight days

and eight

crazy nights.

Let's celebrate

the improbable 

victory

of delight

just when

grim problems

seem to have

"won."

Miracles can happen.

You are one.

I am another.

Tomorrow

is

another.

From one miracle to another:

Don't give up the faith,

your faith

that the 

BEST

can happen.

It often does.

Celebrate!

Believe

that all can be

easy,

dare to believe it,

and it will be

so!

Thanks for coming by,

and please leave the gift

of your "hello"

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