Comfort Spiral: 2012

Monday, December 31, 2012

A L O H A !

“ The most important thing
is to enjoy your life
—to be happy—
it's all that
matters. ”

Audrey Hepburn

“ Let us be grateful
to the people
who make us happy;
they are the charming
gardeners
who make our souls
blossom. ”

Marcel Proust

“ Happiness
is having a large, loving,
caring, close-knit family

in another city. ”

George Burns

"S.U.P." Stand-Up-Paddling

“If more of us

valued food and cheer

and song

above hoarded gold,

it would be a

merrier world.”

J.R.R. Tolkien

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Sunday, December 30, 2012

Your Free Hawaiian Vacation

A L O H A !

The holidays

are stressful.

You

deserve a vacation,

and I'm going

to give it

to you!

You are going to have

a private view

of Hawaii's

warm,

tropical

paradise!

And while you enjoy your view

of palm trees moving

in languid Trade Winds

beside a blue ocean,

You

will listen

to a play-list

of Hawaiian Music

I have chosen

just for you!

I N S T R U C T I O N S :

1) Go to and bookmark each of these sites:

Hawaii Music Here

Hawaii View Here.

2) To vacation ANYTIME :

A] Open the Music in one tab and set it playing.

B] Open the View in a new tab.

(You will see the view, the music should keep playing )

C] Watch the Hawaiian view, while you listen to Hawaiian music. Try Full-Screen!

D] Soon, you will look forward to these little escapes, and actually believe on a certain level that you can sit by your Hawaiian window ANYTIME you want!

BONUS: If you live in New York City, and arrive home in the winter dark at 6pm, it will STILL be a sunny 1pm when you get here to Hawaii.

I'll look for you!

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Saturday, December 29, 2012

You Win

A L O H A !

" I've been thinking

about why you have to
get famous
to get an award
for helping
other people.

" If your name is
John Doe,
and you work night
and day doing things
for your helpless neighbors,
what you get for your effort
is tired.

" So, Mr. and Mrs. Doe,
and all of you
who give of yourselves,
to those who carry
too big a burden
to make it
on their own,

" I want you to reach out
and take your share of this.
Because if I have earned it,
so too have you.”

Frank Sinatra
Accepting the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

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Friday, December 28, 2012

Light Brain Circuit

A L O H A !

Ah, Neon!

Does something to us

doesn't it?

Dazzles us,

short circut to

the brain.

Feel that searing pulsating

RED!

Oh the brilliant stimulating

comfort

of BLUE!

Color goes right to the brain.

We eat less

off of a blue plate.

Ever heard of

Food - Coloring?

Our brain is a magical place.

Electrical storms

of great beauty

range there,

like Northern Lights:

'Cerebrum Borealis'

Neural particles swarm

dutifully,

chemical messengers

acting

under electrical weather.

What you eat,

think,

imbibe,

influences that weather

which is your

emotional climate

in mysterious ways.

But fear not,

we know that

love, calm, faith,

xanax,

can safely harbor

the battered ship

of the ID.

We see what we focus on,

and paint it

in the colors

of our

Life Interpretation.

Things mean

what we believe

that they mean!

But if we are open,

perception

can shift

anytime!

This motorcycle

travels about

at speed.

But the paint job

invites

inner explorations

of it's depths,

and

our of own.

Has birdy chosen

to enjoy this brilliant

plastic reflector 'sun'

pulsing

with Waikiki

morning light?

Did he even notice it?

Too much sun,

especially glaring off of the

water,

can befuddle

eyes, and mind.

Best to rest

under dark blue.

Capture the sun

[see solar panels ?]

and have your fun

wandering

and wondering

before

your 'day'

is done.

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Thursday, December 27, 2012

Appointed Continents

Pink Cloud - Cobalt Cloud: Morning

What do you do

the day

after

the holidays

Early birds at the Beach

Ships keep their appointed rounds,

charted on some desk far away,

to meet a shipment,

itself in movement

to that meeting,

plotted in a

different office

on a different

continent.

Hawaiians of old

sailed in double-hulled,

two-masted canoes

following the stars:

arriving

departing

founding kingdoms;

Bringing new ideas

and plants,

like bloggers

of the sea.

Steersman steer,

call the stroke;

ride along

you lazy bum!

" Day After?"

Wonders dear Birdy.

"Isn't TODAY All? "

" The creation

of the world

did not take place

once

and for all time,

but

takes place

every day. "

Samuel Beckett

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Who am I

to disagree

particularly

during the

dying embers

of another

year. . .

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Y O U
being my visitor
and friend
is WONDERFUL!

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Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Plain-Clothes Santa

A L O H A !

" When we are humble

everyone is a potential best friend

and our generosity naturally grows.

We want to do things, to help out.

A wonderful Zen tradition

is called "inji-gyo,"

or secret good deeds. . .

- Secret good deeds.
They are so much fun.
In their doing
you can't help but
smile. "

Geri Larkin
"Tap Dancing in Zen"

As usual,

plain-clothes Santa

gave gift baskets

to indigents

on the Honolulu

streets,

and to the Mission.

Plain-clothes Santa

is a nice Jewish boy,

just like Jesus.

" Summer set
lip
to earth's bosom
bare,

And left the flushed
print
in a poppy
there. "

Francis Thompson
"The Poppy," 1891

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