ALOHA To YOU
Guest, Visitor, Reader,
FRIEND
We know who YOU are.
But who am I?
A Google Image Search
yielded this CLOUDIA .
Clearly a sister!
And this uncanny twin too:
There ARE yet other
Cloudias!
Like this version:
" Cloudia_or Female Cloud_by_Crazy_Cow_Productions "
Don't mess with Cloudia!
Cloudia
by 'ttearz "
by 'ttearz "
Nice bracelet !
' Cloudia 34 '
A GLAMOROUS Band !
PERFECT for . . . . ME
dig that tail !
This Cloudia
is darling of the
London Art scene!
Here she is
in all her glory!
I always wanted
my own Soul Food / Furniture
Business !
I have a great logo!
Or Two-
(I see someone has thoughtfully TradeMarked
MY legal name!)
Or THR33!
Meet Cloudia Swan - Film Star
Cloudia Computing!
Yes, there are a surprising number
of Cloudias
in the world today.
Strangely,
many of them did seem to speak
directly to me:
Ah! what fun to be a simple
Cloudia. . .
Only fair, I suppose,
to close with a picture of myself
creating
Comfort Spiral
JUST for YOU-
No wait;
Here I am -
Thank YOU
for making all of this nonsense
worthwhile!
Fondly, 'me'
Catullus lived from around 84 to 54 AD.
He wrote a number of love poems to Clodia, giving her the pseudonym, Lesbia. Below is my paraphrase of a very famous one, (a very loose translation, mostly because the original doesn't mention water).
V - Vivamus, mea Lesbia
Come let us live and let us love
Beside the ev'ning shore.
And all the grumblings of old sots
We'll patiently ignore.
The sun has set, and soon returns
- Our lives should be so long.
Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus,
rumoresque senum severiorum
omnes unius aestimemus assis!
soles occidere et redire possunt:
nobis cum semel occidit brevis lux,
nox est perpetua una dormienda.
Lively translation Courtesy of
"Ted" of Ted's Museum