Monday, February 29, 2016
Got My Lion Luck!
A L O H A !
Lion Dancing at Chinese New Year Time
is one of my favorite things in the world.
So we were seated by the window of
Yet Wah Restaurant in San Rafael
eagerly anticipating dancing
lions and tons of great noise.
[The one time of year I like noise]
I saw a fit teenage girl lion dancing in
Honolulu in recent years. And we
remarked on it. It's always been
a boy thing. But look! Girls
really eager to do their moves.
You GO Girls!
I was impressed by their preparation
"There's only one thing
I never did and
wish I had done:
climbed over a fence. "
Queen Mary
I bet these girls
climb anything
they want to!
Lion Heads UP!
Headed inside!
This is no One-Lion town!
They like to go up high
and look around
Distracted by Take-Out
Back to the work at hand:
eating those tasty and
lucrative Red Envelopes!
"Lions are so BIG!
My camera is
so small."
She thinks to herself
The Lion's Heartbeat.
Rhythm of the dance.
These lions
did NOT stop moving!
Who has who?
Dad approves.
Brother is
less certain.
I like how both patrons
have their fingers
in their ears.
[We were wearing
our earplugs, as
do the participants.
NOT my first lion dance!]
Gong Hei Fat Choi
Respect to the Marin
Chinese Cultural Association
Lion Dance Team!
[Note HIS earplugs]
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Oh Good Fun!
So happy to share
my Joy
and Good Luck
with YOU!
Fondly, cloudia
Chinese Cultural Association
Lion Dance Team!
[Note HIS earplugs]
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Oh Good Fun!
So happy to share
my Joy
and Good Luck
with YOU!
Fondly, cloudia
Sunday, February 28, 2016
Monday Mural
A L O H A !
South of Market, San Francisco
"There are no
uninteresting things,
only uninterested people."
G.K. Chesterton
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Foot At A Time We Climb
A L O H A !
"The Earth has grown
a nervous system,
and it's us."
[bloggers]
Daniel Dennet
"One never notices
what has been done.
one can only see
what remains to
be done."
Marie Curie
“You never know what's
around the corner. It
could be everything.
Or it could be nothing.
You keep putting one foot
in front of the other, and
then one day you look back
and you've climbed a mountain.”
Tom Hiddleston
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Many of us bloggers
are thinking of our friend
Tina "E. G. Camera Girl"
who perished with her
husband in a very recent
traffic accident.
Tina was a true friend
who gave me gifts
every day at her blog.
Link.
She was generous in
visiting this place too.
And she taught me a lot
about photography
and grace.
What a wonderful
and true community
we have here,
that we feel such
a personal and
powerful loss as this.
Her final post
is haunting now.
Frost on windowpane.
Intricate, lovely,
temporary. But
never forgotten
cloudia
Saturday, February 27, 2016
Critters Day
A L O H A !
"When you love someone
all your saved-up
wishes start coming out."
Elizabeth Bowen
Downward Duck
"Intelligence is the
ability to adapt
to change."
Stephen Hawking
"Imagine your angel
and you will feel
its presence right
now, right here."
Paulo Coelho
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Friday, February 26, 2016
Is It A Dream
A L O H A !
What Will Today Bring?
"If you dream of
moving mountains
tomorrow, you must
start by lifting
small stones today."
African Proverb
Sunny ducks on the lawn!
[note the fence]
"Beauty is a manifestation
of secret natural laws,
which otherwise would
have been hidden
from us forever."
Goethe
Keeping My Eye On Them!
And then they flew away. . .
“I like to prowl
ordinary places and
taste the people-
from a distance.”
Have
A Wonderful Day,
Thank You
for Visiting!
cloudia
Thursday, February 25, 2016
A Day
A L O H A !
"Don't judge each day
by the harvest you reap,
but by the
seeds you plant."
Robert Louis Stevenson
"A meow
massages the heart."
Stuart McMillan
"There are so many ways to heal.
Arrogance may have
a place in technology,
but not in healing.
I need to get out
of my own way
if I am to heal."
Anne Wilson Schaef
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Friend!
cloudia
Wednesday, February 24, 2016
One Name Wonders
A L O H A !
Duck
"We like to be out
in nature so much because
it has no opinion about us."
Nietzsche
Deli
"One day in retrospect
the years of struggle
will strike you as
the most beautiful."
Freud
"Have a heart
that never hardens,
and a temper that
never tires, and a
touch that never hurts."
Dickens
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cloudia
Tuesday, February 23, 2016
We Share
A L O H A !
"It was that wonderful moment
when, for lack of a visible horizon,
the not yet darkened world seems
infinitely greater—a moment when
anything can happen, anything be
believed in.”
Olivia Howard Dunbar
" I share with you
my heart and my soul.
You already have these.
So I've also brought you
a mirror. Look at yourself
and remember me.”
Rumi
"Cats are connoisseurs of comfort."
James Herriot
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Thank YOU
Friend!
Warmly, cloudia
Monday, February 22, 2016
San Francisco Sunday
A L O H A !
I love the Golden Gate Bridge.
Slender Pagodas,
impossibly high
above the windy Bay,
whisking one into
the magic City;
Or up to the glorious
forested North.
And Home.
Slender Pagodas,
impossibly high
above the windy Bay,
whisking one into
the magic City;
Or up to the glorious
forested North.
And Home.
Cadillac Building
"He who rejects change
is the architect of decay.
The only human institution
which rejects progress
is the cemetery."
Harold Wilson
Click on these dudes
with their cogs
and spoked tires.
Cars today are
L-Ion Batteries
and computers!
And a sweet little
terracotta Bear Cub,
California's Golden Bear.
He's been watching
the street scene
in San Francisco
for a LONG time!
Did you see
his Comfort Spiral
eyes?
Cities are charged
with mystery,
energy and wonder!
I was on a tiny island
for a long time!
"Your awareness is different
from both your thoughts
and your senses."
Ram Dass
Gotta ponder THAT one!
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for Visiting!
Fondly, cloudia