What is a "GO Bag?"

Aloha, Dear Friend!

A Rabbit

“The other day when I was walking through the woods,

I saw a rabbit standing in front of a candle

making shadows of people on a tree.”

 

 Stephen Wright

There he goes! (Nice tail)

"Humor can get in

under the door

while seriousness

is still fumbling at the handle."

G.K. Chesterton

Did you see that?

"Diseases of the soul are more numerous 

and dangerous

than those of the body."

Cicero

Just another day. . . in Waikiki.  (Glad Y O U stopped by :-)

"Perfect order

is the forerunner

of perfect horror."

Carlos Fuentes

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Three times this year,

a tsunami warning,

my boat taking on water at 3:30 am,

and a TSUNAMI WARNING (!)

We have had to decide what's important.

What do you grab?

Valuables, monetary & sentimental.

Pets. Medications. Papers.

In the case of the tsunami,

you want to take food and simple

"neccessities" that may be in short supply

for some time, if the 'big one' hits.

After what happened in Japan. . .

(and believe me, Hawaii people

are close to the Japanese.

Every day here there is a fundraiser,

or another story

heartrending in it's pain

of what our friends and family

are enduring there.

Hawaii people have contributed

upwards of 3 million USDollars!

And many of us are over there helping.)

. . .So after a disaster like that,

or the flooding in the continental US,

one is grateful for dear normalcy

even if this is the normalcy:

  "normal."

What is your security blanket?

Your MUST HAVE?

Do you have a "Go Bag" with simple necessities

ready to grab and go?

Believe me, it's better to think before an emergency hits.

Personally, much less is now "necessary."

What do I actually need to be happy?

Our blogs are preserved "on the cloud"

Personal information and pictures

can all be stored there too,

courtesy of Google, Mozy and others.

I'm realizing that, beyond simple health, 

food, shelter, loved ones,

there is little  that is irreplaceable;

After all,

we shall lose "everything" eventually anyway.

You can't take it with you, right?

For me, this means that more of my security

comes from within,

from skills, and from hard won self-confidence too.

My "locus of control" has moved more inside myself

than outside.  That's a good feeling.

My husband marvels that I can give a REIKI treatment

with no equipment, just my hands.

I can provide comfort, pain relief and connection.

As long as I have a heart to think of those around me

I will not sink into despair.

Together we as a whole world are re-evaluating:

"What is necessary? What is truly desirable?"

I think we are finding exciting new answers

to those questions;

Answers that are actually quite old.

"Love one another." "Do unto others."

"True wealth is not material." 

I'm actually quite hopeful, this Arab Spring.

A million minds changed, 

and a thousand-year Berlin Wall fell.

What walls of separation will fall next? 

What is the world changing it's mind about?

Y O U

blogger, and blog reader,

are part of it!

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